The pedal that changed your life !!

Lovepedal Fuzz50 rekindled my love of fuzzboxes after decades of just using overdrives and an occasional distortion.

It shares a lot of character with a FuzzFace, only without the major drawbacks. Plenty of body, no woofiness. Plus it has enough cut to not get lost in a mix. Great cleanup when you roll back the guitar's volume control - iconic Jimi-style semicleans, just like a FF. Silicon for consistency - doesn't change with the weather - yet the sound is rich & warm like a germanium fuzz. Not spitty yet not too tame either. Only one knob, output level. It loves both singlecoils and humbuckers.

I have several different versions of a few classic pedal circuits - four different variants of the TubeScreamer, for example.

The Fuzz50 was the only time I ever bought another exactly the same for my small board.

It's just so much fun I didn't want to do without.

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HAHA, Sp8. The pedal that changed my life was the Gas Pedal too. For 15 .75 years I was dependent on others to cart me to and fro.
Long before I would get a driver's license, I longed to go where I wanted and make money or play or explore the world.

The gas pedal of my lowly 1972 Datsun 510 provided that.
 
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The 22 year old me driving my girlfriend in my 510 to see her brother at Villanova.
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Then the 30 year old me, during a day of wrenching on my sadly now gone 510 out in the alley behind my dad's house..
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Now the 55 year old me is searching for at least one if not several replacement 510's AND a proper Garage Workshop to bring life back to full circle to driving a sweet 510 again. Sadly like the stupidity of me selling off my 1st guitar ( 79 LP Std) sending the rolling chassis off to the scrap man back around 1996 was a really stupid move considering I now have internet and cars like my 510 I knew were good but even with a ton of cash which I was never blessed with, would never stack up to 64 1/2 Stangs, 69 Z28's, Vettes, etc, in value or speed or collectability
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As for guitar pedals, my initial transformative experience was the ORIGINAL TS9/ 808 my friend Craig showed me back in the early 2000's.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Now the 55 year old me is searching for at least one if not several replacement 510's AND a proper Garage Workshop to bring life back to full circle to driving a sweet 510 again. Sadly like the stupidity of me selling off my 1st guitar ( 79 LP Std) sending the rolling chassis off to the scrap man back around 1996 was a really stupid move considering I now have internet and cars like my 510 I knew were good but even with a ton of cash which I was never blessed with, would never stack up to 64 1/2 Stangs, 69 Z28's, Vettes, etc, in value or speed or collectability
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I could take on most Mustangs, Z28s etc in my old 510. Unfortunately it lost an argument with a Buick during a race practice

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