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 ...

At 70 years old, Rick Crownover finds himself closer to the electric guitar than ever. A lifetime tinkerer, he now builds his signature fuzz guitar pedals made from eclectic tin containers found in ...

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The sound of fuzz is the sound of rock. Every generation, a new wave of players discover and redefine this classic effect. It's pretty common to see a fuzz and a distortion on rock boards, and the ...

As well splitting a guitar input over three separate fuzz pots, the variable frequency control and resonance switch of Fairfield Circuitry’s new Four Eyes Crossover Fuzz pedal help make it one ...

In the past few years, fuzz guitars have come conspicuously back to the forefront, and they’re being played by some female-led outfits that sound like they came straight out of the mid-’90s, when ...

Guitarists and musicians always on the lookout for new guitar effects pedals may be interested in the new range which is being created by David Wells who has made a batch of his automatic instruments, ...

The Fuzz Face is probably the most famous distortion pedal of all time, thanks to it spending so much time in the shadow of Jimi Hendrix´s velvet flares in the late 60s. Jimi used an Olympic White ...

Instructables user and Community Manager [Randy Sarafan] recently put together a tutorial on how to build an ages-old musical standard, the “Fuzz Pedal”. He says that the secret to rocking out is fuzz ...

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 ...