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	Prescription Electronics - Guitar Effect Pedals
		C.O.B. Clean Octave Blend - This Pedal allows the user to blend a clean guitar signal with a pure upper octave at the preferred balance including output and overdrive levels.
		Noise free and compatible with your favorite stomp boxes.
		A sonic reproduction of the original Color Sound Overdriver as used by Jeff Beck during the "Rough and Ready" era.
	www.fuzzbox.com (306 words)

	Fuzzbox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A fuzzbox (or fuzz box) is a type of stomp box comprising an amplifier and a clipping circuit, which generates a deliberately distorted version of the input signal.
		As opposed to other distortion guitar effect pedals, a fuzzbox boosts and clips the signal sufficiently to turn a standard sine wave input in to what is effectively a square wave output.
		Famous examples of fuzzboxes include the infamous Fuzz Face (originally made by the Arbiter Group), and the Big Muff Pi (made by Electro-Harmonix) series of pedals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fuzz_box (299 words)

	Line 6 DM4 Distortion
		Like the other boxes in the series, the effects are selected and controlled from the front-panel knobs, and four footswitches provide easy storage and recall of four user patches.
		Whatever your taste, there ought to be something here for you — though they haven't emulated every fuzz box ever made, the models chosen cover the available tonal range pretty well and the few oddball inclusions add to the interest.
		With the DM4 costing around the same as two or three separate analogue overdrive boxes, and having the benefit of being programmable, this is a pretty cost-effective way to achieve a variety of overdrive flavours.
	www.soundonsound.com /sos/feb01/articles/line6.asp (886 words)

	Frantone Fuzz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		I was under the initial impression that Frantone’s “The Sweet” fuzz box was going to be a high gain, “TV static” type of tone, when in actuality it wasn’t.
		All other fuzz boxes that I have used always had an inherent “fart” to them, regardless of the settings or picking dynamics.
		This fuzz box is smooth, quiet, and manageable at all levels.
	www.legendarytones.com /frantone_fuzz.htm (1179 words)

	Subdecay Birthday Fuzz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Birthday Fuzz, based on vintage fuzz box designs, but with more common components, and modern features like an LED indicator, and a DC adapter plug.
		Just like vintage fuzz boxes, the tone is highly interactive with the pickups on your guitar.
		The Birthday Fuzz is hand made in Woodinville, WA with the high quality components.
	www.subdecay.com /bday.htm (270 words)

	Fuzz box, - The Austin Chronicle: Music: Fuzzbox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Fuzz box used by the legends of the 60's and 70's.
		NG: My heavy industrial fuzz box riff was developed over a period of time, The fuzz box was custom built right into the guitar by a friend of mine.
		Mine is the Fuzz Box FY-2 with a "Kimbara" logo badge on it.Theres loads of differently The other marking says FY-2 Fuzz Box, on the end with the knobs.
	www.hispider.com /?q=fuzz+box (831 words)

	Distortion-related pedal categories: Overdrive/Booster, Fuzz, Distortion, Metal/Grunge, Power-tube saturation, ...
		You might think this is too broad a scope for "distortion-related boxes", but notice that I have left out many effects: echo, reverb, chorus, flanger, harmonizer, multitracking (multi-tapped delay), pitch shift, modulated delay, envelope filter, wah, phaser, tremolo, panning, digital whammy, talk box, and many others.
		Fuzz is a distortion box with boosted bass before clipping.
		What's more important is the dist box's potential when bracketed - and you can compare different dist boxes this way and judge one as a reject and the other as superior.
	www.amptone.com /distpedtypes.htm (2354 words)

	Dummies::Processing Gain-based Rock Guitar Effects
		Distortion, in the sense that it's compared with fuzz and overdrive, is an exaggerated, edgier form of overdrive.
		Fuzz boxes, which were among the earliest guitar effects, take you to the extreme edge of distortion.
		Pedals that specialize in fuzz don't do a very good job of simulating the natural distortion of a tube amp; however, you can simulate a fuzz tone with a conventional distortion box by turning up the gain control and setting the tone for the brightest possible sound.
	www.dummies.com /WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-1155.html (622 words)

	Roger Mayer Effects - North Star Audio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The sound is tangibly different if a fuzz unit is in front of the Octavia: an upper octave double is created, clearly demonstrated in the solo to "Purple Haze".
		Jimi placed the Octavia after a fuzz and wah unit in most cases so it would react to the combined effects of both the wah and one or more fuzz boxes.
		It is definitely best described as fuzz rather than distortion but has the ability to be used on chords as well as solos.
	www.stevedavidsondesign.com /rm/roger_mayer_effects/roger_mayer_products.html (821 words)

	Structuring the Fuzz
		But each box is more—it is a set of values, emotions, and attributes that define a perceptual reality about a brand.
		In your first box (Box #1), you could define your problem as, "How might I find my keys?" or "How might I replace my lost keys?" The focus of this box is on the keys—just as the focus in line extensions is on extending a brand instead of creating a new one.
		The secret to fuzz removal is to structure the process and test as many assumptions as possible by asking questions.
	www.cul.co.uk /creative/fuzz.htm (6143 words)

	Nick Nitro
		The leftside is a thick fuzz with much requested and pleasingly reduced harshness; controlled by VOLUME and FUZZ.
		It always seems that players feel they need to have two or more different fuzz boxes in their effects chain.
		It’ll easily fuzz power you back to the 1960’s with a bit tastier break-up.
	www.smfamps.com /nick_nitro.htm (181 words)

	GeekChat! - fuzz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It is definitely sort of hard to say categorically as there are a million and one varieties of "fuzz." It may be worth going to the fulltone site and listening to the sound clips of his fuzz pedals.
		With my fuzz factory I can get everything from a really interesting but tame overdrive kind of sound to over the top synthy noisy modulating fuzz.
		I also agree that something like a Rat or and EHX Graphic Fuzz may be good to look into as they do both distortion and fuzz.
	www.guitargeek.com /chat/showthread.php?threadid=33251 (412 words)

	Chandler Guitars
		Electronically this guitar effect uses the Fuzz Face configuration of the classic two transistor amplifier but the low parts count and simplicity of this configuration produced many problems in the mass produced versions that were produced and available to the public.
		The MONGOOSE FUZZ was developed in 1985 for guitarists who demand a guitar effect with lots of fat fuzz and enough bottom end to keep a metalhead happy.
		The Roger Mayer Stone Fuzz is the latest fuzz guitar effect in the Rocket Series and is a modern evolution from the fuzz pedals he modified for Jimi.
	www.chandlerguitars.co.uk /chandler.asp?pid=17&ip=0&mn=chandlerguitars (8181 words)

	Fuzz Head Audio Demo by Paul J. Priest
		These tracks are intended to capture a live feel as one may experience playing through his or her own Fuzz Head at a gig, or at band practice, or simply when practicing chops.
		Instead of being clean, the rhythm track's Fuzz Head setting is adjusted to be more grating, rough, and intense than the solo, which is still set at as a heavy overdrive.
		The Fuzz Head is set for nearly all-out warm fuzz, which is mainly achieved by rolling the tone wheel for less treble and increasing the fuzz to maximum.
	www.robertkeeley.com /fuzzhead (1369 words)

	Guitar Effects by Roger Mayer - Spitfire
		The Roger Mayer Spitfire is the latest fuzz guitar effect in the Rocket Series and has been deliberately designed to produce the classic triode tube type distortion that is particularly rich in harmonics that are very musical and pleasing to the ears.
		The overall EQ has been carefully developed to produce a well-rounded fatness and musical tone, not the nasal or fizzy thin type of fuzz sound that is common with digital modellers, multi effects etc. Analogue circuitry really does sound better when it comes to high gain low noise situations; there is no contest.
		Successful operation is simple and is probably our easiest box to use with no previous knowledge or study of a manual required.
	www.roger-mayer.co.uk /spitfire.htm (591 words)

	Beavis Audio Research
		I hadn’t played a fuzz in a long time, and was yearning for that wooly, buzzy, sustain for days type of sound.
		The box is made of fairly sturdy aluminum and has (barely) enough surface area for all my switches, knobs, pots and meters.
		The Fuzz Face can sound good, but it can just be too much work to dial in that sound especially when the Fuzz Face isn't first in the line of pedals.
	www.beavisaudio.com /Projects/FuzzLab (1822 words)

	DAM Pedals from the UK-Musictoyz.com your total online boutique music store for all your guitar equipment needs ! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This is a very high quality "hybrid" fuzz box that utilizes both germanium and silicon transistors to create its ferocious output.
		It is one of the finest British fuzz boxes ever made and the DAM MKII is as close as you can get to the real deal with out paying serious amounts of cash.
		This classic fuzz sounds far superior when running from battery juice and has very little drain so a DC socket is not necessary.
	www.musictoyz.com /guitar/pedals/dam.php (2399 words)

	Stomp Boxes Rule: Pro Studio Edition interviews Tony Hodson
		Another one I’m partial to is the “Fuzz Factory” by ZVex (zvex.com).
		I’m looking for new boxes all the time, and quite a few of the smaller companies have websites that list their dealers.
		Be sure to checkout tonefrenzy.com, as they have a great website, with lots of downloadable samples of different effects, and offer a mix of vintage and esoteric stomp boxes.
	www.discmakers.com /music/pse/hodson.asp (786 words)

	Roger Mayer - Musictoyz.com your total online boutique music store for all your guitar equipment needs !
		The MONGOOSE FUZZ was developed in 1985 for guitarists who demand an effect with lots of fat fuzz and enough bottom end to keep a metalhead happy.
		Electronically this effect uses the Fuzz Face configuration of the classic two transistor amplifier but the low parts count and simplicity of this configuration produced many problems in the mass produced versions that were produced and available to the public.
		The Roger Mayer stone fuzz is a modern evolution from the fuzz pedals Roger modified for Jimi.
	www.musictoyz.com /guitar/pedals/roger.php (4690 words)

	NGFuzz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In the realm of generally available fuzz boxes covering a scale from 1 through 10.
		The third stage is where the NG magic takes place; it simulates a tube amp that been over biased or has suffered serious tube or output transformer failure (the sound just before the fuse blows).
		To glory in the sound of this pedal feed it into an amp capable of delivering huge amounts of clean, pure tone into your speakers.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /jroscoe/ngfuzz.htm (116 words)

	[music-dsp] Greetings... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This can be used to model simple fuzz boxes and the like, as well as modeling non-linear components in amplifiers.
		However, good distortion effects may have parameters which are not per-sample, such as introducing compression to the signal before the clipping stage, or things of that nature.
		Anyway, a typical fuzz box works something like this: input -> gain -> clipper -> EQ -> out The "clipper" is typically a transistor whose input stage is being overdriven by the gain -- the more gain, the sooner the signal hits the clipping point.
	shoko.calarts.edu /pipermail/music-dsp/2001-May/010017.html (282 words)

	Electronic Musician: Stomp Box Strategies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		After Tommy Tedesco and Keith Richards used fuzz boxes in 1965 (Tedesco on the theme from the television series Green Acres and Richards on the Rolling Stones hit "Satisfaction"), it seemed as if everyone wanted that sound.
		By the late '60s, most guitar amplifiers came with reverb and either tremolo or vibrato, and fuzz boxes, wah-wahs, and tape echoes were de rigueur for guitarists.
		Bear in mind that for every great fuzz box or wah-wah pedal created, there were dozens of mediocre imitations.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FGL/is_1_16/ai_60301782 (1434 words)

	guitargeek \| Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This is the fuzz pedal Hendrix used throughout his career.
		Thats said, the Fuzz Face is that recognizable bassy to mid-toned fuzz.
		These things literally sing and that ablity to sing is what has made this particular model the Holy Grail of all fuzz boxes.
	www.guitargeek.com /gearview/100 (185 words)

	emplive.org - Create - Tools of the Trade - Pedals: Hendrix - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Fuzz boxes, chorus pedals, wah wahs…the sonic possibilities are endless, and the world of rock 'n' roll would be a pretty boring place without them.
		Though guitar effects pedals were a relatively new phenomenon when Jimi first hit the international scene, he quickly made them a part of his setup.
		The Fuzz Face, Vox Wah Wah, the Octavio (later known commercially as the Octavia) and the Uni-Vibe all contributed to Jimi's unique and influential sound.
	www.emplive.org /create/pedals/index.asp (214 words)

	Analog Man Sun Face and Fuzz Face Page
		It is the same box used for the Mini Chorus, Mini Bicomp, Beano, etc. Starting in late August 2007 we are using our SMALLER box for most Sunface pedals, as seen on the pedal with side jacks on the left.
		This is built into the FUZZ pot, when you turn it down all the way it kills the battery.
		The Fuzz control capacitor on the wiper of the pot is now referenced to 0V instead of 9v.
	www.analogman.com /fuzzface.htm (6506 words)

	guitargeek \| Roger Mayer Voodoo Axe Fuzz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Voodoo Axe basically takes off where the Original Roger Mayer Axis fuzz left off by adding a tighter low-end, an extra mean output section, ac power, and a newer compact housing.
		With most fuzz boxes you know, right off the bat, that you are severly limited to strictly playing single note lead stuff.
		It’s one of the most musical boxes out there and a fine choice if you need a fuzz that has a lot of different flavors.
	www.guitargeek.com /gearview/159 (176 words)

	Robert Keeley Effect Pedals
		Robert turned his thoughts towards improving the Fuzz Face and related Germanium fuzz units and came up with this mean little machine.
		Very warm, very responsive and very quiet for a fuzz unit, this is one of the rare fuzz boxes that works equally well as a lead and rhythem box.
		If your Fuzz Face clones are frustrating you due to the inconsistancy from temperature changes and are tired of altering your playing style to suit the pedal, this is your box.
	www.massstreetmusic.com /pedals-keeley.php (2087 words)

	Metal tone and Metallica's gear
		I bought it as per a comparative Guitar Player review of the best distortion boxes; the article was divided into types of distortion boxes, and this one won in the 'metal' category.
		It's important to understand that overdrive pedals are used to drive a tube amp's input stage into distortion.
		Fuzz boxes boost the bass before distortion, for a rough, bass-dominant breakup.
	www.amptone.com /g153.htm (1225 words)

	guitarGAS: Digitech Hot Rod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		I mean overdrives, distortion pedals and fuzz boxes.
		So it's in the Distortion and Fuzz arena rather than Overdrive.
		Typically there is a characteristic loss of bottom end too (which explains why there are many pedals that give you a lower octave or two to add to the mix)
	guitargas.blogspot.com /2005/05/digitech-hot-rod.html (953 words)

	DarkSonus.com Online Musician's Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The first units developed were FUZZ BOXES, which would take an incoming signal and modulate its amplitude by a square wave to produce audio clipping; the amount of modulation was controlled by the user.
		Additionally, some fuzz boxes would incorporate low pass filter designs to further shape the tone.
		Now, clipping produced by a fuzz box contains a wealth of overtones, many of which are odd harmonics (hence the addition of a tone control to eliminate some of the nasty upper harmonics produced by the unit).
	www.darksonus.com /articles/ivocals.html (1329 words)

	AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix
		This was the main fuzz box he used, a classic germanium transistor fuzz effect.
		This effect was first used on “Purple Haze” and “Fire.” It is a fuzz box with frequency-doubling circuitry that produces a second note an octave above the fundamental note.
		A highly sought-after, rare fuzz box, it was one of the first commercially available floor effect units, making its first appearance in 1966.
	www.amplitube.com /prod_ATJH.php (1097 words)

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