Some of the most recognizable guitar sounds in rock music were created with the fuzz pedal. The predecessor of distortion and overdrive pedals, it alters your guitar’s sound wave into a square wave, ...

The sound of fuzz is the sound of rock. Every generation, a new wave of players discover and redefine this classic effect. Whether you're inspired by the Stones, Hendrix, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, The ...

Named for the Supergrass song of the same name, the Caught By The Fuzz is a two-knob op-amp fuzz from Andy Ilgunas's Funny Little Boxes – the UK operation that has already given us the delights of the ...

Pedal-building wizard David Rainger is back at it again with “another brilliantly unconventional dirt pedal”, the Rainger FX Razor Fuzz. More than just a mangled fuzz pedal, it's headlined by a unique ...

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 ...

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 ...

We break the glass on the pedal cabinet to dig out a long-list of some of the coolest effects from the new Golden Era of ...

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