Finding the Right Fuzz Pedal

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Re: Finding the Right Fuzz Pedal

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The new Red Witch Fuzz God III appears to do almost everything. I just ordered one from Ben.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ohwEAekbc&[/youtube]

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Re: Finding the Right Fuzz Pedal

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Reg18 wrote:I know everyone says first but strangely I preferred it after my Diamond compressor, is that normal?
And as I usually like to have a low gain OD on most of the time and then kick on the fuzz for a lead boost/big rhythm tone I’m finding the mids/low end drops out, any suggestions on that? If I put an OD after the TB it retains some of the mids but becomes very dark and if I put an OD before it is a lot clearer but the mids drop out.

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Put your mid heavy overdrive before the fuzz and use it as a boost.
Try the compressor at the end of your overdrives but before modulation and delay/reverb.
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Re: Finding the Right Fuzz Pedal

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Did a quick demo to show how it sounds.
It’s not bad actually, I’m liking all the different sounds I can get, will learn some more Zeppelin riffs and do another proper video at some point if I get time.
Tried the compressor after the drives again but still like it before for some reason. It tightens up all the drives or something.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDy8YpYNUs

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slash-ed wrote:The new Red Witch Fuzz God III appears to do almost everything. I just ordered one from Ben.



PS - is the youtube embed thing broken or do I just not know how to use it anymore??
Needed to remove a trailing "&" and make it https :)
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Re: Finding the Right Fuzz Pedal

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The signal being fed into your drives is already compressed. Drives compress shit more - don’t know why.
At the end of the day they’re both compressing something already compressed.
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