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- Pedal Time 2! Dallas-arbiter Trem Face
guitarz.blogspot.com: While we're on a pedal trip, I'd like to add my own Dallas Arbiter pedal into the mix. Mine is the Trem Face, which I bought at a car boot sale in the early 90's. For a long time, it was pretty obscure and became almost...
- Pedals For Sale
I have to sell a few pedals to fund my new project (I first considered selling a guitar - it would have been quicker - but I just can't do it, one day I'll probably die of starvation hugging my guitars). They are all in very good state...
- Pedalboard Project
A man my age should have a proper pedalboard, thought I last week, mostly because I'm fed up loosing 20 minutes unpacking, plugging, unplugging and repacking my pedals each time I go to the studio to rehearse. Because I never have...
- Fuzz Pedals Demo - 16 Different Fuzz Pedals
I appreciate that this guy took the time to hook up all these relatively available Fuzz Pedals to let us hear them all side by side. He doesn't change any of the controls while playing so you have to imagine there is some flexibility in the...
- Vintage Fender Fuzz/wah/volume Pedal In Tucson Area For $100
There is a whole cult of Fuzz pedal collectors out there (you know who you are) but I am not one of them. I have several Fuzz Pedals and they get a little use - but not that much unless I am recording overdubs. But that is just me. This is a true vintage...
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Pedal time! Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face
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Everybody is much probably familiar enough with the Fuzz Face so I don't have to recall that it's one of the earliest effect pedals, released by Ivor Arbiter in 1966, that the round case was inspired by the base of a microphone stand, that it somehow looks like a smiling bearded face (imagine the effect on musicians on LSD back in the days), that it comprises no more than 11 electronic components - including germanium transistors (normally when they read germanium, old school guitarists get short-breathed) and contributed to the sound of Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend and David Gilmour...
OK, one thing I might be able to tell that you don't know: if someone loves this pedal so much that he couldn't live any longer without a 1969 one, it would just cost US $1 795,00... (Personally, I use a 95 € Boss FZ5 modeled fuzz that in these times of vintage, analog and boutique pedals praise, nobody cares to display on their pearlboards, and I think that it sounds terrific, but who am I to say?)
Bertram
© 2012, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
- Pedal Time 2! Dallas-arbiter Trem Face
guitarz.blogspot.com: While we're on a pedal trip, I'd like to add my own Dallas Arbiter pedal into the mix. Mine is the Trem Face, which I bought at a car boot sale in the early 90's. For a long time, it was pretty obscure and became almost...
- Pedals For Sale
I have to sell a few pedals to fund my new project (I first considered selling a guitar - it would have been quicker - but I just can't do it, one day I'll probably die of starvation hugging my guitars). They are all in very good state...
- Pedalboard Project
A man my age should have a proper pedalboard, thought I last week, mostly because I'm fed up loosing 20 minutes unpacking, plugging, unplugging and repacking my pedals each time I go to the studio to rehearse. Because I never have...
- Fuzz Pedals Demo - 16 Different Fuzz Pedals
I appreciate that this guy took the time to hook up all these relatively available Fuzz Pedals to let us hear them all side by side. He doesn't change any of the controls while playing so you have to imagine there is some flexibility in the...
- Vintage Fender Fuzz/wah/volume Pedal In Tucson Area For $100
There is a whole cult of Fuzz pedal collectors out there (you know who you are) but I am not one of them. I have several Fuzz Pedals and they get a little use - but not that much unless I am recording overdubs. But that is just me. This is a true vintage...