The post How to Get the Fuzz Guitar Tone of Pink Floyd Founder Syd Barrett appeared first on Consequence of Sound. For guitar heads and hobbyists, no band offers more lore and mystique than Pink Floyd ...
The story behind the fuzz pedal’s creation is well known to most guitarists, but it goes a little something like this. The effect was born on July 12, 1960, while country superstar Marty Robbins was ...
60 years ago, Maestro’s first stompbox – the FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone – was launched. Kickstarting a revolution in sound it was the progenitor of all fuzz pedals Employing three germanium transistors this ...
Rock and roll music isn't supposed to be pretty. It has grit and grime; fuzz and feedback. It's dirty and imperfect. Much of that characteristic sound came from the accidental invention of the Maestro ...
Like it or loathe it, fuzz distortion effects units have been an integral part of rock music ever since a Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone made a guest appearance on Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones. Early ...
You may remember that Ty Segall collaborated with the noisemakers at Death by Audio (the pedal company, not the Williamsburg venue, though they’re related) to create the (now sold out) Sunshine Reverb ...
The Silktone Fuzz is based on a pair of germanium transistors and side-steps any temperature-related surprises by having an adjustable bias with a digital read-out on the enclosure When you purchase ...
In a previous entry into this “wondrous”, if not “ponderous” blogspace, I alluded to the fact that an industrious EE/designer could make a nice farthing or two just creating distortion pedals for ...
Glenn Snoddy, longtime Nashville studio engineer and inventor of “fuzz” guitar distortion, died Monday at his home in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He was 96 years old. Snoddy was engineering a recording ...