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[ibmorjamn]

For me, the beauty of a classic FuzzFace is that amazing cleanup when you roll back, those iconic semicleans.
It dates from an era before amps had a lot of gain available - long before master volume knobs.
Hendrix had pretty clean preamp tone by modern standards.
In those days you got sustain (and a bit more breakup) by virtue of playing really loud.
And by using either a fuzzbox or a treble booster.

Through a cleaner amp the FF is just epic. Through any gained-up amp it's likely to sound buzzy and/or tubby.
Kinda the opposite of a TubeScreamer, which was designed for amps that're already breaking up.
People who try a TS out through a clean amp often say, "I don't get what all the fuss is about."
The real TS magic only heppens goosing an amp that's already cooking to begin with.

PS: According to Roger Mayer, Jimi switched to silicon fuzzes as soon as they became available.
In those days Ge pedals could vary a lot from one to another, and also got weird whenever their temperature changed.

Sounds very accurate from what I have been reading. And logical after messing with it.

It's funny the guy that built it didn't explain the saturated amp vs what he uses is Fender.
I did have 70's EHX Big Muff and played it through a Black Face. Kicked ass.

 

[ivan H]

According to Roger Mayer, Jimi switched to silicon fuzzes as soon as they became available.
In those days Ge pedals could vary a lot from one to another, and also got weird whenever their temperature changed.

It's well known that Roger Mayer modified a lot of Jimi's gear, including fuzz face's. What's not so well known is that Dave Weyer from West Coast Organ & Amp also maintained & modified a lot of Jimi's gear. Dave Weyer posts on the Metroamp forum (James Marshall Hendrix sub-forum) & is very forthcoming with details of the modifications he did to various pieces of Jimi's gear, including fuzz face's. Unfortunately, IIRC, a lot of these details are buried within the one massive thread entitled something like "Jimi Hendrix' gear & mods at west coast organ & amp". The thread will be very easy to find if anyone is interested, it's pretty much one of the first threads in the Hendrix section of the Metroamp forum. Cheers

 

[eclecticsynergy]

My first-ever fuzz was a Fuzzface copy made by an organ company (maybe Thomas?) that manufactured them to be sold under various other brand names. Mine was branded Gilsonite, from our local music store in NJ back in the day. It looked just like this Clark one.

 

[C-Grin]

Here is a quick and lame vid I did to see how these toans would sound when recorded them. The amp is a not quite clean Or20c and the FF is the mini Hendrix silicone, the guitar is an Epi with Duncan 59 in the bridge. All I did was roll back on the volume knob and it starts at blowout fuzz to mild breakup level. Oh and the last riff is on the neck pup.
I actually find the FF to be a very versatile tool.

 

[DirtySteve]

I love fuzz, but I've had a hell of time finding one I really liked. I've had several different ones over the years all clones of various famous fuzz pedals including the fuzz face. None of them really did it for me until I discovered the BYOC website and decided to build one. I really spent some time reading descriptions and listening to clips before I settled on the Li'l Beaver NYC muff clone as my first build knowing that a component change here or there could turn it into another model. Well my first choice was the right one. After I built it I stopped looking for a fuzz pedal. This was exactly what I was looking for and the satisfaction of building it myself made it even cooler.

The mini size is so much better than the Muff style big box. I love this pedal.