10 Awesome Guitar Fuzz Pedals [Cornish, JAM, OKKO, EHX, Reeves, Cunningham & more!]
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- čas přidán 8. 08. 2024
- We explore the bite, grit and rasp of 10 ferocious fuzzes!
Welcome to the show. Every now and again Dan and I like to check out a bunch of new-ish guitar fuzz pedals. Now we understand that fuzz isn’t for everyone. The gritty, raspy nature of the sound can feel like a desecration of the instrument we know and love.
For many others however, the savage sonic assault of a well-aimed square-wave is just about as rock’n’roll as it gets: a spitting, belching, slamming wall of noise.
Wherever you stand on the subject, behold these 10 effectors designed to verily knock you right over again!
Enjoy the episode!
Pedals & stuff in this show
• TheGigRig Three2One
www.thegigrig.com/three2one
• Pete Cornish NG-2
www.petecornish.co.uk/saeng-2....
• OKKO FX Holy Grit
okkofx.company.site/HOLY-GRIT...
• Electro Harmonix Russian Big Muff - no longer made
• Reeves Electro Darlington Fuzz
reeveselectro.co.uk/products/...
• Thorpy FX Tacit Blue
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3O2OmmO
USA: bit.ly/3SiN5ur
• CopperSound Renegade
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
• Jam Pedals Octaurus
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
• Great Eastern FX Co Focus Fuzz
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia; bit.ly/46II17v
• Ross Fuzz
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3O36a1l
USA: bit.ly/48RqNp9
• Cunningham MK1 TB/Zonk
www.cunninghamamps.co.nz/prod...
• Crazy Tube Circuits Sidekick Junior
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
• TheGigRig G3S
www.thegigrig.com/g3-s
Interesting bits and go-to sections
0:00 Intro playing
1:38 What are we doing today?
2:12 Today’s amps Noel’s knobs
2:35 Pete Cornish NG-2TM intro
3:49 Cornish sounds
7:00 Okko Holy Grit
10:10 EHX Big Muff Pi
11:48 Reeves Darlington Flyer
14:55 CopperSound Renegade
19:08 Thorpy Pedals Tacit Blue
24:20 Great Eastern FX Focus Fuzz
28:14 JAM Pedals Octaurus
32:33 Ross Fuzz
36:14 Cunningham MkI/Zonk
45:19 All on!
Guitars used in today’s show
• 1970 Fender Stratocaster - Mick’s video here: • Three New Strats For M...
• Fender Custom Shop ’63 Telecaster - Dan’s video here: • That Pedal Show - Our ...
• 1961 Fender Stratocaster - Mick’s video here: • Three New Strats For M...
• Gibson Les Paul Junior - Dan’s video here: • That Pedal Show - Our ...
• Gibson USA ’61 SG with Maestro Vibrola - no video yet
Amps used in today’s show
• Sovtek MIG-50 - no longer made
• Electro Harmonix MIG-50
Australia: bit.ly/3HilCCQ
USA: sweetwater.sjv.io/9gdYD5
• 2 x Marshall 2061cx with Celestion G12H Anniversary speakers - no longer made
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I hope Dan is okay, what you all do means the world to me and has saved me from a deep depression over a break up back in November. I cancelled Netflix and this is literally all I watch daily lol. Sending love and healing to all!
We wish you the best in feeling better. Dan's all good - they removed a fatty lump from his head. But sadly I'm still here! hahahaha! Big love man, if it's any help, This Too Shall Pass. Probably the most useful phrase anyone has ever said to me.
@@ThatPedalShow I was gonna ask if Dan cut himself while shaving, but the lump story's even better :)
Stay with it, friend. It gets better.
@@ThatPedalShow❤
I remember when i used to have relationships & breakups. They always seemed to end in such devastating sadness at the time. Little did I know that was just useful preparation for what comes in the remaining 2/3 of ones life. If I were better at playing music, I could have written some very pithy song lyrics about it. And i guess got a teenage girl to mope around mumbling them and sell a billion copies! Oh well, I’m sure someone will have the idea before long...
I'm a simple man. I see TPS plus the word fuzz, and I instantly click on the video.
Hi mate. Nice to see my other favourite guitar gear guy here in the comments::)
@@mattgilbert7347 Nice to see you here, too!
I totally agree TPS plus Fuzz equals instant click. Your channel kicks ass too man. Your Fuzz tone with a VOX is simply awesome.
Eeeeeeexxxxxxaaaaaaccccctttttlllllyyyyyy….
@@jedmarsillo dude, that's awesome. I'm glad that you enjoyed the videos.
We all need this crazy endeavor.
Its therapeutic. It's part of that medicine that has as its object the cure of many diseases and doubts.
TPS, hands down the best show in this electric circus.
Thank you Dan and Mick.
Thank you kindly!
Wow - what a show!! So many wonderful fuzz and endless thanks for cranking up the Zonk/MK1 - my my it sounded sweet with that SG! Love that you were able to highlight the impedance interaction with the following buffered delay. Your pedal is true to the originals with higher output impedance and the extra brightness and attack into a buffer. Our latest version of the Zonk/MK1 makes this interaction controllable by lowering the output impedance and adding a trim control to boost or cut the upper highs in your signal - so you can match it to your rig and dial in how bright it gets to taste. Is so much fun - I'll send you one to compare. And you must both come and visit New Zealand - I'll take you fushing with a full barrels of fizz. Cheers and all the best, Tim Cunningham
Tim! Thanks so much man. That sounds goooooooood on every level!
The Cunningham was the only one that sounded life like. Incredible. When you start playing music and not making gimmicky licks then you know you have something.
Thank you Dan & Mick ! Love hearing these different flavors of fuzz. "Deader than the ass of a dead thing" is a great Michael aside. Grateful for all you and the TPS crew do for us here on CZcams - John
Man! Dan's giggle on 4:55!
His hair may have grayed out but he is still a kid at heart when it comes to pedals. Lifegoal! Cheers!
Its That Pedal Show. Its an episode on fuzz. For just under an hour all is right with the World. Thank you Dan and Mick as always for fantastic sounds, playing and vibes. A beacon of light on a dark winter night. Great.
All you need is fuzz, fuzz is all you need - ❤ from NZ
You need to turn up the bass knob in the Okko Holy Grit to use it like a fuzz. That pedal deserves a whole episode.
Aha, this guy gets it. Yes, the Bass knob is pre gain, you will get thicker fuzz type of tones by maxing it out. Not Fuzz like ToneBender Fuzz but fuzzy sounds. 😊
Anyway, thanks Dan & Mick for the awesome feature! We are very very grateful! ❤
Outstanding! I really loved the Cunningham and the Jam pedals - super fun with a little extra schwingdiddle and low key graphics. Music to my ears and eyes. Happy Friday and thank you.
Some amazing pedals from amazing builders there fellas. Hope to make the cut one more time myself. Keep it up dudes
fuzz videos always remind me of the first time i plugged into a way huge russian pickle i was instantly in love. mick just cant stop making me smile when he plugs into a fuzz just godly tones and seeing dans reactions to mick play is always awesome dont worry dan we both make the same faces lol. best of wishes to you all.
such a joy to watch! amazing episode.
All You Need Is Fuzz - Fuzz Is All You Need
What an assault on the senses. All of them absolutely brilliant. Masterclass in getting great sounds out of each and every fuzz...with more in the tank. What a talent you both have.
I’ve been a fan since around 80k subscribers and I have to say it’s awesome seeing this Channel grow so much. That Pedal Show is a weekly watch for me.
Thank you Gunner!
Thanks for continuing with "Noel's knobs"! I think most of us out here appreciate it to give some context to what you're doing. I love watching you guys play fuzz pedals, they sound fantastic and brutal, but when i play it can sound quieter, flubby and with no definition at all. Noel's knobs showed just how low the volume knobs were set on the MIG50s, so i did the same and set my JTM45 at around 3 and such a revelation! Thanks so much for all you do 😊
The MIGs are pretty loud at that level. They don't get //much// louder after that. A bit, obvs, but moreover just more distorted. And when there's two of em...
@ThatPedalShow I think I just got used to running the JTM45 at higher volume settings (where it does sound really nice but not actually any louder) but then if I added the fuzz it just had nowhere to go.....
I love hear Dan relax in his playing and just go. It often feels he's thinking too much while he's playing and thinking maybe too much about the audience. I know all guitarists do that to some extent, I just like it when you can tell they sort of let that go.
Fuzzilicious! Thanks for always giving us such great content. Love you guys and the show.
Was waiting for this one as it was announced earlier this week! I'm currently in a very fuzzy period listening to almost nothing but doomy stuff so thank you lads! Great content as usual
We definetly need an episode with John Cordy in this show, I'd say he's a modelers' guy but the analog gear he plays it's great 😋
Agreed
Holy grit the Holy Grit sounds amazing. Really really lovely clean up and incredible fuzzy tones to boot. Even as a man who has found the only fuzz I think I'll ever need, this was a great show. Would love a bit of a history lesson on octafuzz because it's just one of those things that I've never really appreciated and I wonder if it's because I don't understand where or how it came to be.
Make all the jokes you want about us Kiwis, that Cunningham Zonk rips! Love you guys! Great episode.
Had that same SG model, but with a fixed bridge (SG Standard 61). The most friendly guitar I ever had. It played nice with everything I threw at it, amp, pedal, amp setting, just about anything. It was hard to get a bad tone out of it. Since Dan pulled out his SG, I kept thinking, that’s it, it’s the always good tone guitar. Then at the the two of you had a hold my beer moment and almost make me fall off my chair. Finally. Not surprised it had to be an unhealthy about of fuzz pedals all on to push that guitar over the edge. Lol Thanks for the wonderful show and the laugh. Cheers
Love the Holy Grit! Works great as an always on clean boost/preamp in front of the Boss IR-2!
Man the Tacit Blue. Wow! I got to the end of that section and immediately listened to it again!
Mick switched on the tacit blue and instantly gave all of CZcams a fully comprehensive lesson on the importance and the correct use of the guitar volume control. Sounded glorious !
Thank you!
After hearing the Big Muff all the other pedals can go home.
Fuzz plus loud driven amp equals happy days. But 16 year old me hated fuzz because tried a bug muff into a clean fender amp. Then I was enlightened by these gentlemen 👌
same!
Great job today. Nice playing and killer tones. Happy Friday!!
Whoa, had not been watching the show for some time due to a crazy work-load, but couldn't miss your show on Fuzzes and what i see straight away is Dan's head. No idea what is going on, but, Dan, i hope you're doing well and what ever it is, you will get back on a good track ASAP. Sending my warmest thoughts to you!
I love Fuzz! Great job guys. Enjoying this very much!!
Loving the John Mayer Crossroads Cover inspired riffs. Fitting for the Pete Cornish NG-2. Man Mick and Dan were really on fire today! Love the Strat tone
Mick’s blues jam with the Thorpy, that ruled 😂
"Homer once had a piece of food stuck to his face for 3 days! And it wasn't little either! It was a chicken wing!" Excellent reference Dan 😁
Great show! Glad I wasn’t in the room for the all on part!
That holy grit with single coils sounded unreal.
I feel that graphic at the end with all the pedals probably needs to be a shirt... and the fact you did not epilogue with voice was perfect. You just fuzzed into oblivion. Bravo
Impeccable timing! I just received a new fuzz pedal late in the day yesterday... a MAS Effects Tiny Fuzz. Running to plug it in now and jam with you fine lads! Cheers 🍻 👏
Haven't watched TPS in a long time. I wanted to check em out today and was wishing for a fuzz video then i got this notification
Hoooooray! Welcome home. :0)
Ohhhh man! My true addiction. No matter how many fuzz pedals I have I always want another one! My 2 boards have a combined 7 of them 😂
Had one of those muffs and sold it thinking I’d never need anything as sordid. Years on, they’re unaffordable. But it allowed me to go on a small muff journey, so that’s good. Still using the Bigfoot King Fuzz. Went around the houses with fuzz - but that’s the one that seems to be hanging around. Perhaps because it’s not a trad
fuzz. That Cunmingham btw - that thing is killer. Stellar ending btw. More noise pls. ✌🏾
Around 21:14 Mick and the Thorpy pedal became one.
Thorpy and Cunningham FTW. Can see the appeal of the Ross and I liked it better with the strat by far.
Cunningham, Reeves and Thorpy for the win! Great show fellas!
That should be a super group ?
WELL. DONE. BOYS! I can not remember, in the not to distance past, having this much fun with electronic manipulation. As so well said, a studded glove rather than an icepick can be what you're looking for. But, I may add, an icepick really, really does the job. Fuzz was made for fun with over-the-top wave deformation, and therefore the gnarliest, most crushed wave could be your happy place! That was an amazing display!
Fuzzbulous Video Gents, as always.Some crazy pieces of kit demoed.
Yes! Some love for the Holy Grit! People been sleeping on this versatile beauty. ✌️😃🎸
Hey Dan - hope that you are Healing-up, and on the road to recovery. Sending positive-vibes from NYC.
I loved the joke at 32:38 😂 gotta get a guitar pun when you can
Yaaay happy Friday!
Thanks for this! just awesome!!!
I just ordered a Focus Fuzz and a Kingsley Minstrel. I just wanted to say it. You're sort of like that one and only friend that would actually understand how exciting that is.
I have to say this is some of the best playing I've seen from you guys, just in terms of taste and comfort across the fretboard. Mick around the 21:00 mark, for example, and Dan around 41:00
great to see you both totally immersed in a lot of fuzzy fun ,brilliant
instalment of tps this one! the octaurus is just different enough of
appeal, but the tiny huge copper one also i could sneak in anywhere,
what a super selection tho!!🙃👍👍👍
I haven't started the video yet, but I'm struck but the beautiful black contrast ratio and clarity of the picture. Looking amazing today! Now... on to the video.
My poor little hands
Also that Pete Corneesh pedal sounds absolutely bonkers
That spitty Cunningham fuzz is outrageous.
That Cornish sounds amazing! 🔥🔥🔥
ALL FUZZES ON - SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN 😎
Utter insanity at the end !
Brilliant episode, the Thorpy was pretty spectacular to my taste.
I've been deliberating over which of his pedals to get, I love the design concept of them soooo much, but there's nothing I don't already have covered, an embarrassment of riches really.
Perhaps an always on overdrive...
Cheers, and take care! 👍👍
The last 30 seconds might be my favourite bit of this whole video 😂
The Rhodium Electronics ARF series is worth a visit guys! Great work as always.
Rhodium electronics fuzz are amazing Antonio is such a genius when it comes to vintage electronics, I have a valvecastor that he made and one of his Tonibender mark 3. Go check him out , he is the real deal.
I've got a box full of fuzz pedals and even made a few by hand. The fulltone '69 I bought years ago is the king of my fuzz. Every time I get another fuzz it loses the battle to the '69.
Rock on, boys.
I’m a patron and buy merch because watching two blokes from the other side of the pond fiddle with fuzz will be the best part of my day: if you love something, don’t set it free-pay for it.
Hahahah! THANK YOU! In capitals and everything.
Is it weird that different fuzzes seems to fit different personalities? Great show!
Hi guys. I have been leant a very early Tim Cunningham combo, and one of his ge fuzzes.
You guys really should get him on your show, the amp is pure magic, as is the fuzz. Just a thought.
My God! What an incredible Sound from the Holy Grit! Maybe a desert Island Fuzz! Amazing!!!
that JAM fuzz is just jelly. Octave sounds so dialed in! my favorite of the lot with the Green Russian BMP and the Cornish tied for second.
Dan's SGs + MIG 50s + Fuzz = AWESOME
I almost shat myself when I saw the topic of this episode! All you need is FUZZ is all you need! 🤘🏻🔥
Really enjoyed this one chaps 😊
I'm looking for a fuzz atm, loving the Thorpy
Dan on fire with the Cunningham!!
Great watch
Thorpy makes great pedals! His drive stuff is up there with the best! I also love Caroline guitar company pedals, just bought a Caroline Hawaiian Pizza Fuzz! Love it
I would get that Thorpy if I had a spare 300 :) it’s pricey but his stuff is the best build quality on the planet! Super tough
Have had a couple of these and wound up with Missing link audios Statesboro Bluesman Germanium Hybrid and now a happy man..
Brilliant as always, got a big choice to make now, Tacit blue or The Darlington Flyer...
I’ve been to New Zealand and it is fabulous & fuzzy!
Love this episode. If you like spitty the Old Blood Noise Haunt is ridiculously good. It’s been on my board for over a year and is the only fuzz I use. Loved the Big Muff! Holy crap. That was juicy.
The Cunningham Zonk mode with the SG sounded awesome.
New fan of the show … love your passion and obsession for tone .. how you are exploring the sound … the guitar .. the connection to inspiration… Thank you Dan
Well you've got to binge watch Dan And Mick my friend.
An episode about how to use a fuzz in a band without getting lost in the mix would be great!
I’ve had several fuzzes, but keep coming back to EHX
You 100% need to do an episode with Mr Cordy!
Seconded. He's hilarious and it would help TPS deal with the Elephant in the Room "modeller" question. Cordy's the man to do it.
Cordy plays real amps and pedals, too. And I bet Dan could put together an awesome rig for it.
Nice unison bend with the octafuzz, Dan! I must try that at home.
Mick+ Fuzz = a happy me! My favourite sound ever on TPS is Mick on the Dope Priest!
Difficult for me to listen without picking up my guitar, and then I can't hear you, so I have to rewind.
You sound good. And I may want a big muff.
Liked the Cornish and Muff with the P90's. Ross was a great combination with the SG Humbuckers, bet it sounds great with a bit of drive on the amp! The Cunningham was a standout for me, so good with humbuckers!
Love the EH/Sovtek green one.
Thank you! Great espidode. Can I just put this out there? Adrian Utley on TPS would be amazing. Definitely one of my favorite guitarists and musicians.
The variety of possible sounds always amazes me. Y'all should really check out the Fuzz God IV from Red Witch pedals. Great sound, optional octave, optional self-oscilation, and the Bias control can gate it into oblivion. It has not left my board since I got it, and I feel it is my civic duty to tell everyone about it. 🙂
Tacit Blue... Wow!!! Just wow.
Flippin Heck, ….my new catch phrase for the weekend!
You guys started my fuzz obsession so i already have a feeling youre gonna have some explaining to do to my wife about this one 😂
That Tacit Blue noodle was outstanding, Taylor. Super tasty playing and tone-tastic. Chapeau.
Thank you!
The two bits I liked best were the Holy Grit which I thought would be really up my street and the ending with everything switched on.
I find it really hard to judge Fuzz pedals when they are not in the context of a mix.
I bought a Holy Grit last week after toying with the idea for the last year. Looking forward to use it!
Dan: I can't compete with you and the Strat with fuzz.
Also Dan: pulls out SG and destroys
🤣😂
FUZZY GOODNESS!!!!
I always have at least two fuzz pedals on my board, one that cleans up nicely, and one that says "clean up? No chance!"
Ahhh... I needed that .. cheers
Dan, Mick, Fuzz pedals....fantastic
Pedal Board Challenge - as Mick is such a Sci-fi fan… maybe an “out of this world” challenge would be good. The Limelight by Crazy Tube Circuits comes to mind immediately.
Love it!
🤣 You guys flashing up the signal chain at the very end with all the fuzzes on cracked me up. So unnecessary and so good. 🤣
Seems the trick with a great fuzz is getting frequencies that will cut and sing, without those harsh extra-high frequencies. I hear those nasty frequencies in the Ross, and somewhat in the Cornish. Cunningham gets it right imo.
And - although I have my doubts it will cut in a mix - that Big Muff sounds fantastic.