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At the advice of a close personal friend and player I respect greatly, I requested a pedal for my anniversary. My lovely wife of many years, bought me this.
It got here last week and I have just began to experiment with it. However, early last week, just before it got here, I saw a good deal on another one at TGP so I bought it too. It got here today. So now I'll be able to try both. Should be fun!
you chose the correct answer to the question "which of these two fuzzes should I buy?"
BOTH :) :)
;) Yep, I said "which one" and he said "why both, of course." That's how I remember it... :)
I've been jamming with the 70s. I like it. Haven't opened it up yet, but I can't play "fast" with it. I won't keep up if I start shredding. Have you messed with the internal control at all? This one is new so it's set stock. The 69 just got here today (at work) and it's used, so I won't even know how to find out if it's been tampered with.
It's funny how much complaining you hear about the bridge pickups on strats. All you need is a good fuzz pedal and it will get fat in a hurry. ;)
I've got a whole pile of vintage germanium transistors in in the last week that test really well, and I am itching to slap some fuzzes together. The Fulltone 69 is positive ground and germanium transistors, right? The 70 is silicon, so that's probably standard negative ground. The advantage to the "charger version" is that I use a charge pump so you can use your standard power supply with it... and I can include a voltage sag knob to drop the voltage to the circuit, and make things nice and ugly.
DreamTheaterRules — Nov 04, 2013
I've been jamming with the 70s. I like it. Haven't opened it up yet, but I can't play "fast" with it. I won't keep up if I start shredding.
Yeah, it's a fuzz face! not for your yngwie licks, for your Hendrix.
man, the only thing a strat needs is a wire from the bridge to the middle's tone control... plenty fat!
I wouldn't bother with the trim pots until you get used to the rest of it -- they change the sound a bit but I've found them to be a timesink for the most part ('69). use your guitar volume control first - a bajillion different behaviors with just that.
but on the '70... turn the trim pot all the way counter-clockwise (I think - which ever way isn't sputtery). it'll be LOUD... I just leave it there.
Charger, yeah I know, but you know me. Even when I'm playing really slow and bendy, I have to throw a few faster licks in there. LOL
Yeah, but in the same vein, knowing what you like and how you play, I'd think a fuzz face would be pretty low on your list of pedals.
uh, you do remember that I'm a Hendrix freak, right? ;)
I'm building a velvet fuzz... i bet that would be right up your alley...
Oh my.... I really like the 70s and am having a lot of fun with it, but just like I expected.... Germanium RULES! LOVING the 69!!!
The velvet demo I heard sounded killer! I got 3 muff boards from the group buy at BYOC and have all the specs for the different versions including the Mayo, and have never gotten around to building any of them. I still have a couple kits to build too. That will all be working itself out soon. When I move into the bigger music room I will have room for my "build table." I'll be able to do a few of these things myself again. When I lost my garage I stopped building stuff. But I have a BUNCH of boards and parts. Hope to get working on things soon. Mean time, I'll keep an ear out for your builds. I live that charge pump idea for the fuzz because I just KNOW I'm going to forget to unplug the cables and waste batteries on the 69. I haven't used batteries in years and I'm SURE I'll forget to unplug it more than once.
I like the Civil War/Russian green muffs personally, those are just headcrushing. There are a million tweaks you can do to that circuit, and almost all of them can be laid out on the same board. The Mayo is supposed to get that Smashing Pumpkins sound (named after "Mayonaise" off Siamese Dream), so is the Creamy Dreamer... but the Smashing Pumpkins used an opamp big muff, which sounds distinctly different. Good luck with all your boards. I like BYOCs instructions, just about everybody else is cheaper, but for your first couple of builds it's nice to have that kind of documentation. The Velvet Fuzz is totally bizarre... it shares nothing at all with the kind of fuzz topology you'd expect, not a fuzz face or a muff, it's opamp based and has a jfet "plexi" section in it... very strange. But it sounds good.
These boards aren't BYOC. They were a group buy and one of the moderators there did a layout and we did a group circuit buy. Theya re nice boards! I think I paid $5-7 per board for them. He and I had become buddies and he when he shipped them all out, he threw in some trannies for me to use when building them.
Velvet sounds interesting. I mean, the demos sounded killer! Might have to talk to you about one of those.
DreamTheaterRules — Nov 05, 2013 He and I had become buddies and he when he shipped them all out, he threw in some trannies for me to use.
Really? :D
Craig, I know how hard it is when those of us who think in electronic terms use some of the same terminology as those of you who think in perverse sexual terms. We must have confused you again. Or maybe you just wanted to put up pics of your latest date night. I will say that they look better than the women you posted pics of last week, so congrats on that anyway. ;D ;D ;D