A Guide To GOOD Fuzz Tone (With Any Fuzz Pedal)

Does your fuzz pedal sound bad? Here's my guide on how to getting that fuzz pedal sounding right. Let me know what you think in the comments!

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[rexsolomon]

This is just about the only video on Youtube that emphasizes that Amp Volume is essential to getting those famous unique Fuzz clean tones - and the reality that 98% of us can't play that loud at home. Subscribed.

[theproject]

Great video!
My tone recipe would be to first max the fuzz and then lower your guitar volume until you achieve a bright hairy clean, if it doesn’t clean up enough lower your fuzz until it does, now EQ your amp to get the perfect “clean fuzz” sound that cuts. Now you can max your guitar volume and get the all- out fuzz tone. Fuzz should ideally give u 3 tones, clean, rhythm and solo

[casseurpoisseux]

Living near Montreal, Canada, I'm glad to see a Electric Mojo Guitars tshirt! Great explanations!

[Jammaster]

I was looking for a good fuzz pedal and this guy just gave a master class on how to make one work.

[leonardo.rafael]

I have seen many many other guys videos before buying my first fuzz, and its the first time someone explains me I require saturated tubes or an overdrive pedal, and shows how the different options sounds. Thank you so much.

[nedim_guitar]

Since early 2020 I've been watching a lot of videos, because I built my first pedalboard and really got into different pedals and what they do, and also gear videos are pretty fun. But in these three years I haven seen anyone do a video about fuzz this way. Maybe I should have done a specific search... Great tips that I'll definitely try myself!

[heypockyway]

Great advice Sasha, can’t wait to try these out with my Fjord fuzz Beserk!

[activese]

Certainly a proper, concise (giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words; brief but comprehensive), use and approach to the Fuzz, thank you very much indeed. Cheers.

[JeffreyDurst]

Thank you! I was really struggling getting a good sound out of my fuzz. Volume knob full up and use fuzz pot to get rid of noise. Awesome. 😊

[tipston]

Great insight, especially the tip about the vibrato. Good advice in general!

[thesoundpurist]

I can recall watching Chris Buck changing tone with fingers and gtr ctrl . Just by trying to imitate him, i automatically loved my pedal. Goes from Roger Mayer to my ChaseBliss mk2 preamp. I find my Spitfire more forgiving. I've heard good thing about the elect ladyland one.
Go for the real deal. I communicated with Sir Mayer, i wanted to mod my Rocket pedal, though it was not possible, he's been a gentleman and took time to explain.
I love to use the spitfire as a boost, which is rare with me. I never heard a fuzz producing a modern lead sound like the Spitfire in my life.

[garybird]

This is a brilliant video! So articulate and helpful.

[SomeKindOfMadman]

Cool upload Sasha. More like these would be awesome

[thierrylecuyer]

This is amazing content Sasha, great tips man!

[deathlesshorsie]

Awesome, thanks a lot for all those great advices.

[karllongbottomguitars]

Absolutely killer Sasha
That expresso fx fuzz is awesome 👌

[robinjgill]

Great video. I got into fuzz this year and love the way you can get so many sounds just by playing with guitar's volume and tone knobs. I run a boost (or two) after it. A bias knob or and trimpot can be useful if you like to starve the circuit of V (low battery glitchy effect). This sounds bad at low volumes but loud in a mix can make the guitar sound very present.

[TheRhino]

I dont know if people really understand why Boutique pedals cost as much as they do. It depends on what you're buying but let's take a vintage style fuzz for example. To produce the sounds that us players are looking for, the caps, resistors and transistors must be chosen, and taken and replaced if they dont match up in the circuit. If it's certain vintage parts that it takes, it's gets exponentially more difficult. The scarcity and degradation from time and elements is just another contributing factor of the price. So it may take months or years just to source the parts and they have to be in large batches for tuning the circuit. So time + labor + parts + skill = a costly but beautiful sounding pedal. Now, grant it, some of the builders are taking advantage but you'll know them when you research their rep. For those of us that just want that ONE, I'd say go for it. You'll spend the same amount buying this one and that one and being disappointed over and over.

[tapilaha]

ha, i just ordered my first fuzz after years n years of playing (fjord fuzz kvasir) will def use your tips to get a good sound out of it!
bedankt!

[er_matze]

this is awesome content and really rewarding to dig into. When I get a new fuzz pedal I dont even judge it after first testdrive because after a while I sometimes found combinations that I really did not at all have on my mind at first and found in the end that that gave me some of the best tones I ever achieved. My latest example is that I have used a treble booster (Analogman Beano Boost which imo is very close to fuzz) in combi with JHS Angry Charlie V3 Pedal into Pedal Platform Amp and found that was absolutely amazing. The ExpressoFX Fuzz seems to be a stellar piece of gear !!