Recommend me a fuzz

[Moonface]

So, my brother needs a fuzz pedal, he liked the Axis Fuzz by Mayer, but he hates all these germanium- based thingies, like ff, bender etc...
Recommend me a pedal, perhaps non- germanium.

Thanks, Moonface

[MartyMart]

Dragonfly's "smooth silicon fuzz" is a cracker ( layouts above )
Joe's "Tripple fuzz" high gain and grind fuzz
Or use a silicon Axis Face, few around and i think there's one in my gallery above too.

Question :
Thin and screechy or warm and fat ?

MM.

[Moonface]

Thin and screechy.

Moonface

[dualaud]

get a used z.vex fuzz factory and mod it for more bass response; else its kind of thin.

cheers,
dual

[MartyMart]

OK, try the smooth silicon fuzz and socket the in/out caps, adjust to taste !
3n3 outcap will keep it thin

MM

[Moonface]

thx

[Floyd Pepper]

get a used z.vex fuzz factory and mod it for more bass response; else its kind of thin.

A thin Fuzz Factory?  Mine sounds super fat to me. 

[jmusser]

I highly reccomend Fat Boy electronics "Ricky D. Vance's" Silicon Tone Bender for a thin, more stock sounding 60s fuzz. Of course the various up octaves, like Gus Smalley's Simple Octave Up, I would put at the top of the thin and screechy scale. Tim Escobedo's Digital Octave Up goes into the ear piercing almost white noise category, so it really depends on how thin and screechy you want it.

[Pedal love]

Just try an axis fuzz.pl

[Branimir]

err... opamp bigmuff?

not really a vintage hendrix fuzz, more of an out of controll rumbling fuzz

[oldrocker]

Speaking of Big Muffs try the Yun mods to the stock Big Muff.  With the tone control you can get thin or fat or anywhere in btwn fuzz.

[tcobretti]

You know the Axis Fuzz doesn't use Germanium transistors, right?

I'd recommend the Multi-Face from ROG.  Socket everything and play around till you find something you like.
http://www.runoffgroove.com/multiface.html

[Foka]

Well...

http://www.custom-sounds.com/epages/customsounds.storefront/449ac8cc0135a12c2741d94dcd010670/UserTemplate/33

If you want to hear other soundclips...search for my "Hot Puzzy".

[Dragonfly]

Some suggestions for gnarly sixties style fuzztones....

*SHIN-EI FY-2
*MEZCAL FUZZ (Dragonfly layouts folder)
*GARAGE FUZZ (Doug Deeper design)
*any NPN FUZZ FACE design, but use 2n5088 or 2n5089 transistors, a .1 (or so) input cap, and a .01 output cap
*HARMONIC PERCOLATOR (more a distortion than a fuzz, but still cool)
*JORDAN BOSSTONE (adjust output cap to taste)
*DRAGON FUZZ (Dragonfly layouts folder, in the schematics gallery)

[petemoore]

  FF/GE is my 'first go to' Fuzz Pedal.
  When I want 'different' I go to the DIST+, but if I had a RAT to step on I might do that. I haven't really gotten a BMP [transistor] to 'compete', but testing/tweeking isn't complete there either.
  DIST+ has no GE or other transistors stock, I have a bypassable Mosfet Boost [in a 2 Stompswitch box] kicking it to the next level of Distortedness, it's tweekable, simple and Duzz Fuzz. I put in a input cap mod switch, socketted the output cap and the other cap too, worked out good using a 14pin IC socket for the chip and two caps.

[goosonique]

Tim's ...Triple Fuzz or the Punch in the face with a bmp tone stack(drive this fella with an op amp od/boost... )

[Mark Hammer]

I finally got my original Maestro FZ-1S working this weekend.  This is the 6-transistor version (seen here: http://hammer.ampage.org/files/Maestroworld.zip ).  This baby probably appeared in the soundtrack of all sorts of Roger Corman movies, so that should give you an idea.  Does a nice "Incense and Peppermints" kind of thing.  All told, though, not dramatically better to these ears than a Shin-Ei FY-2.  Once you stick in some mods to an FY-2 or Fuzz-Rite, you can achieve the flexibility the FZ-1S has (3 knobs and a scoop switch) with much less effort and board complexity than the FZ-1S.

Seems to me that a Boss-Tone with a suitable midscoop filter would also sound as menacing and "groovy".

[cab42]

I highly reccomend Fat Boy electronics "Ricky D. Vance's" Silicon Tone Bender for a thin, more stock sounding 60s fuzz.

I'll second that!! Join the TB NPN SI Club.

Regards

Carsten

[powerplayj]

Just try an axis fuzz.pl

Agreed.   It's an easy build with cheap trannies.

[nightingale]

Easy face.