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 ...

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 ...

Most of us are aware of harmonic nodes. You get the strongest one at the 12th fret, which is exactly halfway along the string length. There’s one at the 5th, which is a quarter length and another at ...

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 ...

Glenn Snoddy, the studio engineer who was at the controls for the historic Nashville recording session that inadvertently produced the sound that became known as the fuzz tone, died Monday at his home ...

EarthQuaker Devices and LCD Soundsystem have teamed up to turn the one-of-a-kind vintage fuzz adored by bassist James Murphy into a production pedal, meaning his used-and-abused stompbox can finally ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a basement office in downtown Whitehorse, in a space they share with a dressmaker and a filmmaker, two young musicians are trying to make magic from a pile of old electronic parts. Patrick Hamilton ...