5 Levels Of Fuzz | Tame To Insane

If you dip your toe in the fuzz pool, be careful, the square waves are sharp!

Love the walrus

I have it covered except for level 5. Dont wanna spend big bucks just for an occasional use weirdo pedal so Im kinda stuck. Recommendations please!

What about the velcro ripping,octave fuzz? Interstellar audio marsling. Spirit in the sky fuzz!

Ha. Love the Beato hand on chin pose in the title card. 😂

What happened to The Keeley Fuzz Bender? It rips through most of these. Or the Malekko Helium octave fuzz. Oh well, 2 great fuzz pedals.

FUZZ FOREVER

Ahh il looking at the whaler fuzz.

For a fuzzface, I think analogman is the king the peppermint fuzz they make is also very cool vintage fuzz

Fuzz face is my favorite overdrive lol

where did you get these juicy drums? Awesome tracks and video!

The Kangra fuzz is so much more versatile than shown. You could do an entire episode on it. It is useful for covers or playing out, but you can get wild with it as well. Not to mention it is basically an auto/manual wah pedal and filter fuzz.

That Kangra sounds awfully similar to my personal fave "character" fuzz, the Wolftone Chaos. I have the Malekko reissue, and while it doesn't live on my board, it works great in the studio when you layer it with some more "normal" fuzz when a solo could use some spicing up.

I wonder where most musicians would place the Big Muff. For me it's kinda 3.5 , maybe almost a 4.

The fuzz I use is the JHS Cheese Ball. I pair the number 3 fuzz setting with the gain at 3 o’clock, with a Rat to fatten the sound up if the song needs a little more.

I think your demonstration would have been more effective if you played a clean sound first then demonstrated solo so your audience could really hear the difference. And if you don’t have a Plan B, you’re doing it wrong.

What an amazing video! I never really understood fuzz till I saw this video and it really was a massive mindblower. The way you show up the diferent textures of the tones and sounds the pedals can offer its amazing. This was an absolute game changer for me and I really aprriciate it. Haven't felt so inspired to make music in a long time. Thanks :).

In my research on pedals I came across the Silver Machine by JPTRFX. I'd like to try it... Would that be lvl 6? 😅

The octave fuzz riff is actually so good

I think you forgot a level 6 for the boss fz-2 hyperfuzz, it and similar pedals based off it's circuit (like the Fuzzlord effects fu-2 and Beringer sf300) are like their own specific thing, that combination of heavy clipping diode and octive fuzz with active eq is iconic, at least in doom metal where it's found it's niche, nothing dose walls of fuzz quite the way they do wich is why they are necessary for playing any songs by Monolord or Electric Wizard for example.
Edit: It has occurred to me that mayhaps outside of metal fuzz as a distortion effect is treated as something different than "regular" fuzz, still feel like you should have mentioned fuzz based distortion as a group somewhere in this video.

LOL, of course Rhett doesn't have a regular Fuzz Factory . . . It has to be a Chase Bliss version 😆

Fuz to fuzzzzz

Cool videos and great sound! This will give people a general feeling for the different fuzzes, but I don't think this is a good way for someone to find the right fuzz for them.

Each sound example has different mixes, different treatments to the guitar such as eq, panning, doubling, etc, and the way you play the guitar varies.

Again, the video is super cool and it celebrates a love of fuzz. Awesome!
It's just that every guitar, amp, and player are so different that a viewer may get the wrong impression and pick up the wrong one for them. My first fuzz was a big muff, and I still love it! But, I was still so new to music that I had no idea why my stratocaster sounded nothing like my favorite bands through it.

It's super boring to just play the exact same thing and only change the pedal, but you could meantion that you have other content to help people understand the nuances a little better before they buy their first fuzz.

I just gave away an Ellman Abstract Fuzz and a Roy Electronics Fantasio fuzz on the Great Canadian Pedalboard. Both incredibly tasty and sometimes weird fuzzes! The one on my board right now is the Demon Girl from MayFly Audio.

shoot, i swore not to get back on Reverb again 😪

Find one that u like the way it sounds and cleans up. I like the upper octave thing with fuzz that's smooth not sputtery. Tring to decide between pigtronix Octava, orange fur coat and a dusky fuzz. This video didn't help me much and the demo for level 5 is somewhat close to the sound I like.

I have all kinds of fuzzes: Fuzz Faces, ToneBenders, an EX Ram's Head reissue, and a Voodoo Lab Superfuzz. They are all fun and I switch them out according to what I need.

Super educational Rhett...thanks!

That tone bender riff sure sounds like Gnome. Me like

Sweet Music & Playing Rhett... Cheers AAA

I thonk the last one sounds like a muff more than a fuzz... or am i wrong?

He Rhett, how do you go about combining fuzz pedals with the hx stomp? It seems to take away some character when I put mine in front of the hx stomp. Do you have any advice?

This demo is great! All your tunes were so nice, and who ever you have playing drums is a beast!

Found out that Muse used Fuzz Factories all over Origin of Symmetry and now I need a Fuzz Factory

I bought a Kangra Filter Fuzz. Using a control pedal on the filter makes it so interesting and versatile.... all types of tones and a funky faux wah effect which can be used with or without the fuzz engaged. Very cool unit, although a little pricey.

Great, now I gotta buy five new fuzz pedals

All cool but I like the Fuzzface most I guess.

I needed to here that spirit in the sky fatty sound

Big Muff Pi (BC550C transistors, 1N4148 diodes), volume and sustain dimed, tone at noon, into an EHX pitch fork, mix at noon, one octave up only.

No Beetronics or jptr pedals

Level 5: Fredrik Effects Super Unpleasant Companion = two Shin-Ei fuzzes (superfuzz and companion) in one pedal. Very creative tool!

I need the loudest one

They don't make them anymore, but the Stone Deaf Kliptonite is an amazing pedal for anyone who isn't sure about fuzz. It lets you mix hard clipping fuzz with a classic overdrive tone and change between both modes with a footswitch. 2 pedals in 1, amazing tone on both.

unlike most fuzz demos, you put each in a musical context! well done, love your channel
my fav fuzz is the Vemuram Myriad Fuzz - so much headroom and tone for days - Josh Smith and Vemuram have a made a perfect beast! pricey but worth every penny

That Kangra was so awesome! That would absolutely live on my board. I’m not at the stage of needing any pedals yet, but I can already tell that pedals will ultimately ruin me financially 😂

The 1st level... The chorus guitar sounds more than fuzz face. I didn't notice the tone of the fuzz pedal :(

Really enjoy all the fuzzes, EXCEPT octave fuzz.

Sorry, man. But the octave fuzz is just, "Thanks, I hate it" rating for me.

What delay are you using with the octave fuzz?

Anyone know (Rhett? If you read this stuff?) if the drums are software or a real drummer? If so, who or what software?
Xoxo

gosh, it was so redicously simple just going from 1 transistor fuzz and ascending. You've just included the fuck unknown or fuzz mods. But the music and video is still nice though