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Yea what's the big idea of squashing my GAS high? ............. If only for a lowly reverb pedal.
......... how dare you?!!
A fuzz does not generally do jazz...Boogie,
Like some, I've listened to some fuzz pedals but have shied away from them because they often introduce noise into the signal path, if used in conjunction with other boost or gain effects. That, and the issue of FX board real estate. The ol' board has only so much room on it for effects. So, I've never invested in a fuzz pedal, knowing of the characteristics of not playing well with other pedals. Therefore, in lieu of that, I usually prefer to use a low-to-moderate overdrive and clean boost, for a singing sustain, rather than a crunch, high gain overdrive, or fuzz.
My style of playing isn't hard rock or high gain either, so there is that. (Have not heard that many jazz or smooth jazz standards with fuzz lately
Dang!!! So you've got 4 speakers of sidefill and a combo for your front monitor... I'm guessing you're always able to hear yourself ok...I used a loop pedal to isolate my fuzzes in the past. Yes, most fuzz designs have a characteristic of wanting to be the only thing in the chain. Modern takes on the Classics, like Suhr, can give you the best of both worlds, but if you want your fav old Big Muff, it’s a tough compromise.
On this ancient version of my board, we played a bunch of Weezer, Bush, Jimmy Eat World kind of stuff and I had lots of gain. Mix the 3 channels of the MkIII in and I had a butt-load of tap dancing that day (a giant neighborhood block party with us on a flatbed trailer, an undersized PA and carte blanche from the police department to “do our worst” to the noise ordinance, which meant, crank the guitar!). Two Keeley. Beauties - DS-1 and TS-9 ModPlus - and my Big Muff Mini. The BM had to go at the end of the chain in this scenario, the decision after countless hours of testing and practice.
But to get something like this custom beauty to work at its peak, you need to isolate it with a loop.
I think it's primarily the earliest fuzz circuits like the FuzzFace and ToneBender, which were designed before pedals routinely incorporated buffers. In the 60s even true effects pioneers like Hendrix used only two or three pedals and buffers were unnecessary (although some wah circuits of the time already included them).
Trust me, I did not stand directly in front of that wall of Boogie Destruction (was pretty beastly until about 25’ in front of the stage, then it dropped like a rock)! The combo speaker wasn’t active. That amp was pulling double duty in two bands so I couldn’t slap the amp into the head-only shell...needed that speaker for more reasonable volume level gigs. I was running the Boogie flat out...truth.
