One is not better than the other until you decide what sound you are looking for. Most early Fuzz faces often sounded different from one another due to manufacturing tolerances, different suppliers of parts, and Germanium's temperature sensitivity issues. Amp (Fender v Marshall, etc), guitar (single coil v humbucker, active v passive), and signal chain all play a role. This video is a good tool for helping you decide what fits you better.
There's a few things new people need to know about the fuzz face, and all early fuzz circuits (they're all related), the input impedance is extremely low, like 10k. Thats the reason they clean up by barely touching the volume pot on the guitar, but that low input impedance means buffered bypass pedals before and sometimes after the fuzz face will wreak havoc on them. Putting a wah in front of a fuzz face and using them together turns the wah into a super high treble boost only. But that is how hendrix used a wah and fuzz together, but hendrix also used quite a bit of amp overdrive, and was able to turn off the fuzz face and still had enough gain. I have both fuzz faces, and I've always preferred the jhf1. The jdf2 gets mushy and is way too bass heavy with my guitar and amp, the jhf1 cuts through, and doesn't get near as mushy.
Exactly this. The red sound thicker and more smeared.. the blues one cuts better in the mix and actually sounds better to my ears while playing with bandmembers
It was wrong advice. Dunlop doesn't make 1st generation pedals. They can't activate the TRUE sound from just 1 pedal out of the professional SET of pedals. None of those sounds were a fuzz sound. If you buy a fuzz pedal from Dunlop, it requires you behave like a professional AND YOU buy the full set cause they won't activate the original sound by themselves.
Excellent review. It’s maddening how few people know how to review fuzz. The silicone is definitely my favourite, but it’s interesting to hear how close my ‘Tomsline G-Fuzz’ to the real thing. Great work 👍
In my opinion the red one sounds better. 3:16 it does this huge full sound thing and it’s so great. I felt naked with the silicon fuzz face. The red fuzz face was like a giant warm woman giving me a hug
The best FF made by Dunlop in my opinion is the mxr classic 108 mini. Tiny footprint, same sound as the Hendrix fuzz face played here (cause it’s the same circuit), and the buffer switch is a really cool addition that makes it more versatile. Plus it’s reasonably priced.
You're wrong alex. JH had custom handmade pedals. General purpose is NOT custom handmade pedals. Jimi hendrix signature artist equipment require the full set of pedals before any of them actually work. If you were right, Vox would sue them and they'd win.
I think the difference in note clarity is more obvious between the germanium vs silicon with the humbuckers compared to the single coils. There's a difference going into an overdriven amp that you can hear in both guitar examples, but I think it's more obvious with the humbuckers.
Wrong. Neither pedal has produced its Dunlop sound yet. JH is a custom SET of pedals. They don't work by themselves. The original pedals work by themselves but the signature pedals must be built differently to the originals. So they're built as a SET. They won't activate the original sound by themselves. The general purpose fuzz pedals also require the Dunlop mix&Match set of pedals before any of them actually work. The red fuzz requires more Dunlop pedals before its signal gets converted for the amp to play.
I prefer silicon, just as Jimi did. (And I love the colour). Silicon transistors usually have more gain and this adds to a slightly higher input impedance leaving one with less tone sucking. It's not gone, but it's less. The tone sucking is important for a FFace because it takes away harsh treble at full fuzz and it goes away when lowering the guitar's volume. But with silicon the balance is better to my ears. Many overrate the differences in the adoration of germanium. Silicon is stable and indeed has better definition. Rolling back volume gives shimmering cleans, so one can back down the treble in the amp a bit anyway. Hendrix rolled off volume constantly and perhaps most of the time which added big time to him preferring silicon.
Both types of Fuzz Faces have their pros and cons, Germanium Fuzz Faces tend to sound a bit smoother, but are very temperature sensitive, on the other hand Silicon Fuzz Faces aren't nearly as temperature sensitive as Germanium one are, but they do have a nasty habit of self-oscillating at very high frequencies due to their much higher gain.
I think it’s a question of how they are to be used. I think the red one is like abig muff in that it is best in a clean amp because it brings the rest. Whereas dirty the Hendrix one worked best because that bass cut and mid boost allowed it to be clear. Tbh this just made the super fuzz make the most sense to me tbh. You can run it clean on the scoop setting and it’ll bring the bass and high end. Or dirty on the mid push setting which throws the highs and lows away. Dirty the mid push makes sense. Clean the scoop all day.
Before listening, I thought i'd be more in favour of the JHF1 but I actually prefer the JDF2. I always play thru a clean princeton mind you. Never owned or even played through a fuzz face, for the past few years Ive used a Fairfield Circuitry Four Eyes & before that used a muff. But I could certainly use one of those red fuzz faces!
The red fuzz face pedal requires the Dunlop wah pedal to get the fuzz to activate its TRUE sound. Both those 2 pedals require the Dunlop rotovibe pedal to convert the signal for the amp. The sound from this video is not the TRUE Dunlop sound. It hasn't been converted for the amp. You're missing the rest of the professional SET of pedals.
If one has the fuzz on all the time the silicon is better. But it means a lot of other elements and trade-offs, like backing the treble off a bit on the amp which comes back when lowering the guitar's volume. Sure, this is a specific chain setup. Before you know it, one needs a silicon chain and a germanium chain ;)
The problem is that most of these factory fuzz effects use poor quality germanium transistors. You should try to make a fuzz with Russian germanium transistors from the GT series. These are high-quality transistors that are normally used for precision electronics. For example GT321B.
I'd also add that one should buy a dozen of them, and measure their leakage and Hfe, choosing a pair that are low leakage and with the second having a bigger Hfe than the first one.
Thanks for the comparison. IMHO the germanium sounds more like Hendrix than the one named for him. From what I've read, Roger Mayer switched to silicon for stability not necessarily tone. Certainly the G's clean up better, which is a huge advantage on stage.
Germanium doesn’t clean up better. If you didn’t know which had the BC108, you’d say something different. I’ve tested this theory with a dozen players, and it’s always the same. They think they know which Fuzz Face is best, and that the JHF1 just can’t compare with Analogman White Dot NKT275 Ger transistor Fuzz Faces. Every single time, in these blind tests, they choose the JHF1 for best sound snd one they would use on their rig. The idea of Germanium being “the sound” of Hendrix, or superior cleaning up is nostalgia. It’s like the gear heads who will swear that the 1983 Tubescreamer they use is just has a better sound than a new one. No it doesn’t. It’s the same exact circuit, and other than the pits being slightly different, one can dial in the exact tone with them.
They're both missing the rest of the professional SET of pedals. 1 pedal out of the SET doesn't work. You're 20 years behind the rest of us. Jimi hendrix signature pedals IS a SET of pedals. When are YOU going to wake-up? Dunlop makes a professional SET of pedals. Its called a mix&Match set. In my opinion 99% of guitarists are living in the past. Day dreamers. WHY would a factory reward a customer who buys 1 pedal? Do you REALLY think they're going to give 1 jimi hendrix sound to a customer who buys 1 pedal? They Would destroy the value of the original pedal jimi actually used. Guitarists really need to grow up. These pedals were designed to be used in a SET of pedals.
@@dreyn7780 Also people forget when these Pedals were first made there wasn't many and no one had massive Boards so the Signal chain was different, also as with the Rangemaster, some were designed to go straight into the Amp with nothing else in the chain but it seems some think that any FF in a chain of 10 other pedals bears some resemblance to the original sound! It's laughable. (Plus they think that a Single Coil and Humbucker will work the same with it LOL)
Tried 5 different Fuzz pedals, want to but cant get along with any, i play in my cellar with asmall Tube Head, any tips ? eg lower guitar vol and Amp settings ? appreciated Mike 🇧🇪
I had a small red one and it was, well, not good. Too much fuzz, too much to the point of noise and scratch, I had to turn it almost all the way down to get it usable. I traded it away. From what I hear, the Silicon one works a lot better, more usable.
MIKE BANDFIELD, look into trying to get that hendrix "bell" clean tone its different than glassy srv cleans. Hendrix used a white 63 strat with black bobbin pickups with the fuzzface with the soundcity amplifier I think gave him that hendrix "bell"clean tones. Roger mayer makes a pedal called a voodoo drive which kenny wayne sheppard uses to get those hendrix bell tones. You can hear them on hendrix first and second album his clean tones are not a normal clean tone which others refer to the hendrix bell. Try to make a video on how to get those hendrix bell cleans. I hear it on the hendrix song Can you see me.
I thought I was going to like the silicon one, but I didn't, I thought it sounded a bit fizzy and lifeless, the germanium just sounded warmer, smellier and more alive.
It was a terrible video. It was full of wrong information and sound that needed converting to the Dunlop fuzz sound. None of those sounds were the Dunlop fuzz sound.
Great video, I prefer the brighter silicon with my Orange amps. If you get time could you do a quick comparison between the red one hot (hair dryer?) vs cold (out of the fridge) to show effects of temperature on germanium. Cheers
I had the Mooer Bluefaze and i sold it , now i miss it 😫 guess i need a fuzz face , got the Bogner Oxford (impresive pedal 🤗) but it is a diferent beast , great video ! thanks 😃👍
It wasn't a great video. Neither pedal activated their TRUE sound yet. Dunlop doesn't make 1st generation pedals. 1st generation pedals are pedals that work by themselves. They don't require any other pedals to be in the signal path. So Dunlop makes more complex pedal designs. A Dunlop fuzz pedal requires the rest of the Dunlop mix&Match set of pedals before any of them actually work. This video demonstrated both pedals didn't make any Dunlop fuzz sounds. The JH pedal requires the other 3 JH pedals AND 1 Dunlop pedal called rotovibe. If you're missing 1 pedal from the JH SET, none of them work. The red Dunlop fuzz pedal requires more Dunlop pedals from the mix&Match set of pedals before it will work. Don't approach Dunlop if you're only going to buy 1 from the SET. You're wasting your time. Go buy a 1st generation pedal from those other companies.
@@dreyn7780 IWell it was a great video for me ... i dont really care for you ...... oh ... the true sound 😱😱😱 stop taking drugs man 😂😂😂 just play your guitar and enjoy the wonderfull gift of sound we can get these days 😃,have fun ,bye.
Cool, I like the how you break down on amp setting first on both pedals. Valume on guiar is key on getting the right fuzz. I do want to buy "Silicon Fuzz" after seeing your vid 🎸😎.
With all due respect, you should be playing fuzz face with a marshall or fender tweed amp, not a fender blackface amp, because the blackface has a recessed midrange, and the low highs of the fuzz face stand out too!
Yup. original design ,.. you had only one or two pedals right on the floor, no pedalboards back then,.. the bigger the better because it stayed still... lol
These pedals from Dunlop aren't 1st generation pedals. If you want 1st generation pedals you'll have to shop elsewhere. These pedals are part of SETS. They're beyond 1st generation pedals. They don't activate the original sound by themselves. That's 1st generation. Hendrix original pedals were aftermarket customs. So these Dunlop pedals are beyond those pedals. They're built-in to a set. You're not given a choice 1 or 2 or 3. Its the full set or none of them work. Dunlop doesn't allow you to get the professional sound from 1 or 2 pedals. If you want the old-fashioned life, you'll have to locate the original old pedals. Dunlop builds a professional SET of mix&Match pedals. Designed to compete with multi effects equipment.
Yeah sure, they used Germanium because they were cheap, every single one was different, they even changed tone with temp differences, so no stabillity and you'd be lucky to find a good one out of 50! Honestly look up the history of Pedals and learn something instead of breathing in the Guitar Mag nonsense to sell you something.
But dunlop sells a professional SET of pedals, not individual pedals. Both pedals require additional pedals to activate and refine the signal. The original jimi Hendrix pedal could work by itself, so this blue pedal can't work by itself. It will only work in a SET of pedals. Both pedals require the dunlop rotovibe pedal to complete the signal. You haven't managed to get either pedal to activate the sound yet.
No such thing as 'Best' only what is good for you....Music isn't definative, it's subjective as is the gear you use, these pedals will not sound like this in a different rig as every pedal is just part of a signal chain and EVERYTHING effects that signal before it hits the Driver!
Notice how none of those sounds were a fuzz sound. Those sounds had cracking distorted sounds, not fuzz. You failed to activate the fuzz sounds. Both of those pedals require the rest of the Dunlop SET of pedals. The JH fuzz requires the rest of the JH SET of pedals. The Dunlop fuzz requires the rest of the Dunlop mix&Match set of pedals. It should be REALLY obvious to you by now. Thinking you can take 1 pedal out of a set of pedals and get it to work for you, is really childish thinking. These are professional pedals and they require professionalisum from YOU the buyer.
Thats wrong iv used my fuzz face with an overdrivenamp and a vox wah and its sounded fuzzy and great realise that dunlop didnt invent the fuzz face circuit 😂
@@BiggyC-dh2kn he couldn't even activate the pedal to get it to work. The switch only turns on the power from the battery. The output signal requires converting.
@@harryguitar8506 hello harry. Dunlop doesn't make a general purpose pedal. Dunlop pedals must be different to the original jimi hendrix pedal. Vox wah only works with Vox guitar pickups and other Vox pedals and Vox amps. Dunlop doesn't make the same old circuit. Its custom electrics. You haven't even said what brand fuzz you're using. No introductions, no conversation. No conversation no judgements. Once you realize Dunlop is not your friend, you'll realize you've wasted thousands of dollars buying products you can't use. Then you'll realize you'll have to spend thousands to get stuff to work for you. Then you'll realize you've been conned, robbed and exploited.
@@dreyn7780 i dont like dunlop but the dunlop germanium fuzz face works fantastic with my vox wah wich is going into an orange amp my crybaby doesn't work with my dunlop fuzz face explain that
One is not better than the other until you decide what sound you are looking for. Most early Fuzz faces often sounded different from one another due to manufacturing tolerances, different suppliers of parts, and Germanium's temperature sensitivity issues. Amp (Fender v Marshall, etc), guitar (single coil v humbucker, active v passive), and signal chain all play a role. This video is a good tool for helping you decide what fits you better.
There's a few things new people need to know about the fuzz face, and all early fuzz circuits (they're all related), the input impedance is extremely low, like 10k. Thats the reason they clean up by barely touching the volume pot on the guitar, but that low input impedance means buffered bypass pedals before and sometimes after the fuzz face will wreak havoc on them.
Putting a wah in front of a fuzz face and using them together turns the wah into a super high treble boost only. But that is how hendrix used a wah and fuzz together, but hendrix also used quite a bit of amp overdrive, and was able to turn off the fuzz face and still had enough gain.
I have both fuzz faces, and I've always preferred the jhf1. The jdf2 gets mushy and is way too bass heavy with my guitar and amp, the jhf1 cuts through, and doesn't get near as mushy.
Great info, I should really have mentioned this in the video. Thanks for commenting.
Exactly this. The red sound thicker and more smeared.. the blues one cuts better in the mix and actually sounds better to my ears while playing with bandmembers
why most fuzz now have buffered inputs and can be placed differently in your signal chain
Same thoughts! +1
Working on picking a Fuzz Face. This comparison was super helpful - Thanks!
That's great to hear! Glad it was helpful and thanks for commenting
It was wrong advice.
Dunlop doesn't make 1st generation pedals.
They can't activate the TRUE sound from just 1 pedal out of the professional SET of pedals.
None of those sounds were a fuzz sound.
If you buy a fuzz pedal from Dunlop, it requires you behave like a professional AND YOU buy the full set cause they won't activate the original sound by themselves.
@@dreyn7780like to babble much?
Excellent review. It’s maddening how few people know how to review fuzz. The silicone is definitely my favourite, but it’s interesting to hear how close my ‘Tomsline G-Fuzz’ to the real thing. Great work 👍
You have the very best demo on the internet of Germanium vs Silicon. 👍🎸
In my opinion the red one sounds better. 3:16 it does this huge full sound thing and it’s so great. I felt naked with the silicon fuzz face. The red fuzz face was like a giant warm woman giving me a hug
You have to put the germanium one in the microwave for 30 seconds to achieve the best tone.
instructions unclear house fire
😂😂😂
for real?
@@henrikskijump4660 NO. in case you're serious, DO NOT do this, it will catch fire.
At 900 watts
I preferred the germanium through the clean amp and the silicon through the dirty amp
The best FF made by Dunlop in my opinion is the mxr classic 108 mini. Tiny footprint, same sound as the Hendrix fuzz face played here (cause it’s the same circuit), and the buffer switch is a really cool addition that makes it more versatile. Plus it’s reasonably priced.
That sounds great, thanks for sharing!
It doesn’t sound the same.
Neither does a random guy with a BC108 DIY kit.
You're wrong alex.
JH had custom handmade pedals.
General purpose is NOT custom handmade pedals.
Jimi hendrix signature artist equipment require the full set of pedals before any of them actually work.
If you were right, Vox would sue them and they'd win.
Not the same components. The mini pedals have a lot of extra components and use SMD
Sorry Alex, Dunlop ruined the FF with their Versions and sound nothing like the original ones.
i love the bass response of the silicone fuzz face . lower chords still have definition but also weight
Great riffs for showcasing Fuzz Michael!
I prefer the silicon because it is better defined in the mid but the germanium sounds very good too
I think the difference in note clarity is more obvious between the germanium vs silicon with the humbuckers compared to the single coils. There's a difference going into an overdriven amp that you can hear in both guitar examples, but I think it's more obvious with the humbuckers.
Nice observations. Thanks for sharing
Awesome video! Like a hendrix fan, i prefer both of these fuzz faces) they sound authentic to early and late Jimis career
Wrong.
Neither pedal has produced its Dunlop sound yet.
JH is a custom SET of pedals.
They don't work by themselves.
The original pedals work by themselves but the signature pedals must be built differently to the originals.
So they're built as a SET.
They won't activate the original sound by themselves.
The general purpose fuzz pedals also require the Dunlop mix&Match set of pedals before any of them actually work.
The red fuzz requires more Dunlop pedals before its signal gets converted for the amp to play.
@@dreyn7780 funnily enough, you're the ONLY ONE ON THE ENTIRE INTERNET saying this and YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS WRONG!
@@dreyn7780before any of them work? Dude what are you even talking about?
Silicon wins for me , truly sounds like fuzz , like Hendrix
I guess I need both :) Thanks man!
I prefer silicon, just as Jimi did. (And I love the colour). Silicon transistors usually have more gain and this adds to a slightly higher input impedance leaving one with less tone sucking. It's not gone, but it's less. The tone sucking is important for a FFace because it takes away harsh treble at full fuzz and it goes away when lowering the guitar's volume. But with silicon the balance is better to my ears.
Many overrate the differences in the adoration of germanium. Silicon is stable and indeed has better definition. Rolling back volume gives shimmering cleans, so one can back down the treble in the amp a bit anyway.
Hendrix rolled off volume constantly and perhaps most of the time which added big time to him preferring silicon.
Nice demo! Very helpful!
Great video! Thank you!
Both types of Fuzz Faces have their pros and cons, Germanium Fuzz Faces tend to sound a bit smoother, but are very temperature sensitive, on the other hand Silicon Fuzz Faces aren't nearly as temperature sensitive as Germanium one are, but they do have a nasty habit of self-oscillating at very high frequencies due to their much higher gain.
Excellent review!
Totally love Hendrix, but I for sure prefer the Germanium version
I think it’s a question of how they are to be used. I think the red one is like abig muff in that it is best in a clean amp because it brings the rest. Whereas dirty the Hendrix one worked best because that bass cut and mid boost allowed it to be clear. Tbh this just made the super fuzz make the most sense to me tbh. You can run it clean on the scoop setting and it’ll bring the bass and high end. Or dirty on the mid push setting which throws the highs and lows away. Dirty the mid push makes sense. Clean the scoop all day.
Before listening, I thought i'd be more in favour of the JHF1 but I actually prefer the JDF2. I always play thru a clean princeton mind you. Never owned or even played through a fuzz face, for the past few years Ive used a Fairfield Circuitry Four Eyes & before that used a muff. But I could certainly use one of those red fuzz faces!
Yeah I love the sound of the JDF2 through cleaner amps, responds really well to the volume control on your guitar too.
The red fuzz face pedal requires the Dunlop wah pedal to get the fuzz to activate its TRUE sound.
Both those 2 pedals require the Dunlop rotovibe pedal to convert the signal for the amp.
The sound from this video is not the TRUE Dunlop sound.
It hasn't been converted for the amp.
You're missing the rest of the professional SET of pedals.
If one has the fuzz on all the time the silicon is better. But it means a lot of other elements and trade-offs, like backing the treble off a bit on the amp which comes back when lowering the guitar's volume. Sure, this is a specific chain setup. Before you know it, one needs a silicon chain and a germanium chain ;)
I just stumbled on your channel, you make really good videos and I think you should really do more.
The problem is that most of these factory fuzz effects use poor quality germanium transistors. You should try to make a fuzz with Russian germanium transistors from the GT series. These are high-quality transistors that are normally used for precision electronics. For example GT321B.
I'd also add that one should buy a dozen of them, and measure their leakage and Hfe, choosing a pair that are low leakage and with the second having a bigger Hfe than the first one.
Thanks for the comparison. IMHO the germanium sounds more like Hendrix than the one named for him. From what I've read, Roger Mayer switched to silicon for stability not necessarily tone. Certainly the G's clean up better, which is a huge advantage on stage.
Germanium doesn’t clean up better.
If you didn’t know which had the BC108, you’d say something different.
I’ve tested this theory with a dozen players, and it’s always the same. They think they know which Fuzz Face is best, and that the JHF1 just can’t compare with Analogman White Dot NKT275 Ger transistor Fuzz Faces.
Every single time, in these blind tests, they choose the JHF1 for best sound snd one they would use on their rig.
The idea of Germanium being “the sound” of Hendrix, or superior cleaning up is nostalgia.
It’s like the gear heads who will swear that the 1983 Tubescreamer they use is just has a better sound than a new one. No it doesn’t. It’s the same exact circuit, and other than the pits being slightly different, one can dial in the exact tone with them.
They're both missing the rest of the professional SET of pedals.
1 pedal out of the SET doesn't work.
You're 20 years behind the rest of us.
Jimi hendrix signature pedals IS a SET of pedals.
When are YOU going to wake-up?
Dunlop makes a professional SET of pedals.
Its called a mix&Match set.
In my opinion 99% of guitarists are living in the past. Day dreamers.
WHY would a factory reward a customer who buys 1 pedal?
Do you REALLY think they're going to give 1 jimi hendrix sound to a customer who buys 1 pedal?
They Would destroy the value of the original pedal jimi actually used.
Guitarists really need to grow up.
These pedals were designed to be used in a SET of pedals.
@@dreyn7780 Also people forget when these Pedals were first made there wasn't many and no one had massive Boards so the Signal chain was different, also as with the Rangemaster, some were designed to go straight into the Amp with nothing else in the chain but it seems some think that any FF in a chain of 10 other pedals bears some resemblance to the original sound! It's laughable. (Plus they think that a Single Coil and Humbucker will work the same with it LOL)
Tried 5 different Fuzz pedals, want to but cant get along with any, i play in my cellar with asmall Tube Head, any tips ? eg lower guitar vol and Amp settings ? appreciated Mike 🇧🇪
Hmm okay, so what your saying is that I should buy both right?
I had a small red one and it was, well, not good. Too much fuzz, too much to the point of noise and scratch, I had to turn it almost all the way down to get it usable. I traded it away. From what I hear, the Silicon one works a lot better, more usable.
so theoretically you should be able to just stick the red one before your clean boost TS and get fairly silicon type sounds out of it?
MIKE BANDFIELD, look into trying to get that hendrix "bell" clean tone its different than glassy srv cleans. Hendrix used a white 63 strat with black bobbin pickups with the fuzzface with the soundcity amplifier I think gave him that hendrix "bell"clean tones. Roger mayer makes a pedal called a voodoo drive which kenny wayne sheppard uses to get those hendrix bell tones. You can hear them on hendrix first and second album his clean tones are not a normal clean tone which others refer to the hendrix bell. Try to make a video on how to get those hendrix bell cleans. I hear it on the hendrix song Can you see me.
Hey thanks, nice ideas, I'll look into those!
Red all the way up sounds great I thought very great
Which one cleans up better? Or which one cleans up quicker? Cause my silicon cleans up quite dramatically
What are you playing during the dirty amp part? Sounds so cool
Both sound good to me but then I am a boss turbo distortion kind of guy.
I am not kidding myself that I will ever play or sound anything like Jimi!😏🎸
I wish you test both pedals with Marshall type amps.So many thanks for sharing this great video.
I know. I wish I had a Marshall amp so I could do that! The SV20 would be the one I'd go for I think.
I thought I was going to like the silicon one, but I didn't, I thought it sounded a bit fizzy and lifeless, the germanium just sounded warmer, smellier and more alive.
Nice comparison, mate.
What cameras are you using to record?
I like the germanium better. Some fuzzes have both germ or silicon in one pedal.
At 3:09 sounded like you were playing Dirt by The Stooges!! hehe great video though
It was a terrible video.
It was full of wrong information and sound that needed converting to the Dunlop fuzz sound.
None of those sounds were the Dunlop fuzz sound.
Great video, I prefer the brighter silicon with my Orange amps.
If you get time could you do a quick comparison between the red one hot (hair dryer?) vs cold (out of the fridge) to show effects of temperature on germanium.
Cheers
i guess you have to always let your board warm up to room temp before your set... lol
Lets realize they both belong to pedal SETS.
No SET, obviously no original sound.
Solution: get both.
I like your thinking!
Hendrix more clarity and sweetness and the germ more primitive sounding?
I had the Mooer Bluefaze and i sold it , now i miss it 😫 guess i need a fuzz face , got the Bogner Oxford (impresive pedal 🤗) but it is a diferent beast , great video ! thanks 😃👍
It wasn't a great video.
Neither pedal activated their TRUE sound yet.
Dunlop doesn't make 1st generation pedals.
1st generation pedals are pedals that work by themselves.
They don't require any other pedals to be in the signal path.
So Dunlop makes more complex pedal designs.
A Dunlop fuzz pedal requires the rest of the Dunlop mix&Match set of pedals before any of them actually work.
This video demonstrated both pedals didn't make any Dunlop fuzz sounds.
The JH pedal requires the other 3 JH pedals AND 1 Dunlop pedal called rotovibe.
If you're missing 1 pedal from the JH SET, none of them work.
The red Dunlop fuzz pedal requires more Dunlop pedals from the mix&Match set of pedals before it will work.
Don't approach Dunlop if you're only going to buy 1 from the SET.
You're wasting your time.
Go buy a 1st generation pedal from those other companies.
@@dreyn7780 IWell it was a great video for me ... i dont really care for you ...... oh ... the true sound 😱😱😱 stop taking drugs man 😂😂😂 just play your guitar and enjoy the wonderfull gift of sound we can get these days 😃,have fun ,bye.
Yikes
Well I just came to say I’m surprised Mooer has a fuzz face at all!
Only silicon?
Cool, I like the how you break down on amp setting first on both pedals. Valume on guiar is key on getting the right fuzz. I do want to buy "Silicon Fuzz" after seeing your vid 🎸😎.
Thanks for commenting! Hope you find a good silicon fuzz that works for you.
I’d keep them both
How bout using both at the same time?
Best at what? Fuzzing?
the blue one :)
RED
Would you say the Germanian model has a bit more of a Black Sabbath sound? 🎸
Get a Laney amp to start with.
Ive had all of them, the mini blue fuzz face is most like the old ones.
Germanuim is good
Really so how you going to replace that crusty dried up Germanium when you buy that overpriced old pedal that sounds like crap!
Buy both../
Germanium Fuzz Face Dooms
With all due respect, you should be playing fuzz face with a marshall or fender tweed amp, not a fender blackface amp, because the blackface has a recessed midrange, and the low highs of the fuzz face stand out too!
4:25 1:26
Too hard to choose. JH is cleaner and but kinda twangy. JD isn’t twangy but the notes don’t punch through as clear. Ughhh
Only germanium. Silicon sounds like worse copy of germanium version.
Yup. original design ,.. you had only one or two pedals right on the floor, no pedalboards back then,.. the bigger the better because it stayed still... lol
Not a very practical design by modern standards is it but those big old pedals look so cool!
Yeah, I still have my 1970's era Sam Ash Fuzzz Boxx and it's one crazy hunk of metal.
These pedals from Dunlop aren't 1st generation pedals.
If you want 1st generation pedals you'll have to shop elsewhere.
These pedals are part of SETS.
They're beyond 1st generation pedals.
They don't activate the original sound by themselves.
That's 1st generation.
Hendrix original pedals were aftermarket customs.
So these Dunlop pedals are beyond those pedals.
They're built-in to a set.
You're not given a choice 1 or 2 or 3.
Its the full set or none of them work.
Dunlop doesn't allow you to get the professional sound from 1 or 2 pedals.
If you want the old-fashioned life, you'll have to locate the original old pedals.
Dunlop builds a professional SET of mix&Match pedals. Designed to compete with multi effects equipment.
It's because it's based off an old Microphone stand, Hammond Boxes weren't a thing back then. :)
@@dreyn7780 so they dont sound like the origionals unless all 3 are on?
Germanium is so much better
Yeah sure, they used Germanium because they were cheap, every single one was different, they even changed tone with temp differences, so no stabillity and you'd be lucky to find a good one out of 50! Honestly look up the history of Pedals and learn something instead of breathing in the Guitar Mag nonsense to sell you something.
@@sonicmistressThe red one sounds better. Sounds like winning.
But dunlop sells a professional SET of pedals, not individual pedals.
Both pedals require additional pedals to activate and refine the signal.
The original jimi Hendrix pedal could work by itself, so this blue pedal can't work by itself.
It will only work in a SET of pedals.
Both pedals require the dunlop rotovibe pedal to complete the signal.
You haven't managed to get either pedal to activate the sound yet.
What are you talking about?? 😂 you’re saying this same thing on every fuzz video lol
Troll.
No such thing as 'Best' only what is good for you....Music isn't definative, it's subjective as is the gear you use, these pedals will not sound like this in a different rig as every pedal is just part of a signal chain and EVERYTHING effects that signal before it hits the Driver!
Both terrible, which is why I've never had one.
Notice how none of those sounds were a fuzz sound.
Those sounds had cracking distorted sounds, not fuzz.
You failed to activate the fuzz sounds.
Both of those pedals require the rest of the Dunlop SET of pedals.
The JH fuzz requires the rest of the JH SET of pedals.
The Dunlop fuzz requires the rest of the Dunlop mix&Match set of pedals.
It should be REALLY obvious to you by now.
Thinking you can take 1 pedal out of a set of pedals and get it to work for you, is really childish thinking.
These are professional pedals and they require professionalisum from YOU the buyer.
he was reviewing these two pedals. if he used other pedals it would be 1v1. bruh 😂
Thats wrong iv used my fuzz face with an overdrivenamp and a vox wah and its sounded fuzzy and great realise that dunlop didnt invent the fuzz face circuit 😂
@@BiggyC-dh2kn he couldn't even activate the pedal to get it to work.
The switch only turns on the power from the battery.
The output signal requires converting.
@@harryguitar8506 hello harry.
Dunlop doesn't make a general purpose pedal.
Dunlop pedals must be different to the original jimi hendrix pedal.
Vox wah only works with Vox guitar pickups and other Vox pedals and Vox amps.
Dunlop doesn't make the same old circuit.
Its custom electrics.
You haven't even said what brand fuzz you're using.
No introductions, no conversation.
No conversation no judgements.
Once you realize Dunlop is not your friend, you'll realize you've wasted thousands of dollars buying products you can't use.
Then you'll realize you'll have to spend thousands to get stuff to work for you.
Then you'll realize you've been conned, robbed and exploited.
@@dreyn7780 i dont like dunlop but the dunlop germanium fuzz face works fantastic with my vox wah wich is going into an orange amp my crybaby doesn't work with my dunlop fuzz face explain that