Way back in the dark ages of the late ’60s, the music industry experienced a sudden explosion of fuzz pedals that popped up on the market like mushrooms on cow dung after a spring rain. In an instant ...

True fact: some players just can’t get along with traditional fuzz pedals. Can the limited edition Focus Fuzz change their minds? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Musicians, it seems, have always wanted to alter the sounds of their instruments. Over the course of centuries, strings have been added to guitars for a fuller sound. The composition of those strings ...

In a previous entry into this “wondrous”, if not “ponderous” blogspace, I alluded to the fact that an industrious EE/designer could make a nice farthing or two just creating distortion pedals for ...

As well splitting a guitar input over three separate fuzz pots, the variable frequency control and resonance switch of Fairfield Circuitry’s new Four Eyes Crossover Fuzz pedal help make it one ...

There is no pedal that is as divisive as the fuzz. Yet, there has been no pedal that’s been so crucial to the evolution of popular music – well, at least, it certainly shares that honour with its ...

Distortion which distorts the sound of electric guitar does not distort (distortion), it creates a unique tone color called "guy awaan", and it is indispensable in genres such as rock. A movie that ...

Ok, I know which ones to use, but don't know WHY.. <P>Can someone explain to me why the author of this page suggests the capacitors and pots he does for his Fuxx Face circuit? I built this circuit a ...