#fuzz tone

[fuzzkaizer]

Ideal - Fuzz Master

" ... match what was inside the FZ-1A version [Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone] of the Sekova Fuzz. Same PCB, same components, same bottom plate and more."

cred: tonemachinesblog.com/2025/08/ideal-fuzz-master

[themodfiles]

[mudwerks]

(via Glenn Snoddy, 96, Accidental Inventor of the Fuzz Tone, Dies - The New York Times)

...Though typically associated with ’60s rock — and maybe most famously with Keith Richards’s fat, buzzing guitar riff on the Rolling Stones’ 1965 hit “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” — the fuzz tone emerged from the studio session that produced the country singer Marty Robbins’s otherwise euphonious 1961 single “Don’t Worry.”

A malfunction in the console through which the playing of the electric bass guitarist Grady Martin was being transmitted caused the original fuzz-tone effect, Mr. Snoddy said in a video made by the National Association of Music Merchants in 2014.

The low, reverberant sound produced by Mr. Martin’s bass on “Don’t Worry,” which reached the country Top 10, was reminiscent of a rumbling car muffler.

Overriding the objections of Mr. Martin, who felt that another take was needed to fix what he considered an unwelcome sonic intrusion, Mr. Snoddy and Don Law, the session’s producer, believed they had a unique sound on their hands and decided to leave their putatively flawed recording intact.

Their instincts paid off, especially after Mr. Snoddy designed a device that could reproduce a fuzz tone on demand...

[fuzzkaizer]

Sears - FUZZ TONE 1971, same unit from other brands: guyatone - crazy face, crazy tone, crazy fuzz, fuzzie ...

"modified with a psychedelic paint job, bias knob added and potentially cap/resistor adjustments"

cred: Tweed & Paisley Vintage Finds

[fuzzkaizer]

giannini - FUZZ-TONE

cred: rogeriogagliano.blogspot.com/2019/03/pedais-nacionais-antigos-vintage-raros.html

[qupritsuvwix]

“We had to tell her that the console had quit. They didn't like that at all.” Never mind Keith Richards and the Rolling Stones. Here's how G

Between the effect's creation and its development as a guitar pedal, interest was kept alive by a trio of fuzz-loving musicians

[menzal]

MINI MENZAL - Fuzzy Groove

https://soundcloud.com/menzal/mini-menzal-fuzzy-groove

[antmanboogaloo]

The Fuzztones (live concert) - July 21st, 1987, Leopoldsburg (Pukkelpop)...