Boss FZ-5 Fuzz
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2012
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Welcome back, today we're looking at the Boss FZ-5 Fuzz, an affordable way to have 3 unique, vintage fuzztones in one solid enclosure. The Boss Fuzz uses COSM technology to reproduce the dynamics, tonality and analog character of these classic fuzz circuits. Face mode replicates a germanium transistor Fuzz Face with a full, warm low end and the ability to clean up with the guitar's volume knob. Early Maestro Fuzztones are certain to meet your "satisfaction" with cutting midrange and raw, unrestrained sounds from the 60's. Last, the Boss FZ-5's Octavia oriented mode produces both splatty, compressed textures or haunting upper octave effects and overtones depending on where you play on the neck.
The big plus about your video-review is that its instant playing when you start the video, exactly what people want to hear immediatelly.
This is the very first video that started my OBSSESSION with FUZZ about 10 years ago! I come back every once in a while 🤤
I don't get why people are disliking this video, it's actually a pretty decent pedal. There is a reason why Andy can sound so great with this while others can't.
"If you don't put any time into practicing your instrument, your tone is gonna SUCK! I don't care how expensive or rare your guitar, amp or processor is. YOU are the magic that brings the sound out of gear. There is no magic piece of gear. There, I said it." - James Santiago (Voodoo Lab)
I’ve played since the 80s and people on the internet just pick gear to hate on. The boss metal zone. I’ve always liked boss distortion. Somebody on UA-cam explains how to use it . Then It went from 25 bucks used to 80. 😮And now people love it all of the sudden. Because it chugs,lol Always use a clean channel or amp with high gain pedals. The pedal was fine the whole time lol
The Marshall mg100hdfx. I got goof metal tone from that amp. Made up killer riffs on my first ever video. And I got so many dislikes I pulled the video. That amp chugged and it was reliable and the effects were fine. The distortion on mine was great I reposted the mg video here almost 2 decades later. Hopefully all those Asshole’s grew up I haven’t heard because they jumped off the hater band wagon. I used a cheap camera to record it to make it really bad and I don’t see what’s so bad about it. But they attacked everyone on UA-cam with that amp.
But as far as cosm. The boss od -20 got hate I prefer it to the line 6. Over drive that competed against it. I’ve played the exact pedals it modeled side by side the comparison was exact in tone. I’ll take it over the line 6. 😂
So Let people hate on it. Hell I got the boss od 20 pedal for 60 bucks. So hate on peeps. That pedal is awesome. Hate more gear because money is tight. 😂
The metal zones for 25. Screw that bandwagon BS. Glad I got 2 for $50. That thing melts riffs in front of my jsx. They all just want to feel good bashing stuff with the misled incrowd. Makes them feel cool.
The good thing about watching a review/demo with Andy is that everything sounds so amazing. the bad thing is that everything sounds so amazing with Andy and not when you play it.
I like Boss Pedal’s naming conventions over many other pedals because the pedals name tells you what is does. You can’t have better marketing than that.
I own a muff, and my other guitar player owns this one. This one definitely cuts through the mix better than my muff. It's got a really nice sound to it.
Just bought a FZ-3 last week and played it a couple hours and was blown away with the fuzz almost all the way up. Bought a second for collection. It’s hard to explain the feel of this pedal but it’s sustain us insane and single notes are awesome! Highly recommended and I’ll say it better than FZ-2.
I think out of all the demos I ever heard of guitar players giving demos of guitar pedal, I'd say you are the best at it. Very conniving demos...Most of my pedal selections were based on many of the demonstrations you did...Just thought I let you know dude...I'm 59 and still rockin like I was 15....still playing in good classic rock bands...
i can't believe it ,I own this pedal and I never really it because of the boss cosm .people would tell me they are not real fuzz boxes.WOW after andy 's video i'm sold on I ,it's the best fuzz I've ever heard and I listen to hundreds.
from one Andy to another, thanks for playing that hendrix tune at the beginning, always wanted to learn it
I'm getting a lot of satisfaction watching this!
Sounds great and stellar playing as always!
The octavia setting has always been an octave up, never below. The trick to getting the octave up ( and this is with the original pedal) is to use your guitar's neck pick and play above the 12th fret. It is not like today's pitch shifters, it is subtle.
The sound during Satisfaction is pretty great 🙂
Andy, that cover of "Message to Love" was AWESOME.
Mine arrived today and it’s amazing.
Wow I confess I wasn't expecting to hear such an awesome tone coming from this pedal. For $89, this is a bargain.
I have this pedal, as well as some other Fuzz pedals, colorsound DAM fuzz sound, a germanium Fuzz Face, MKII Sharpetone tonebender, Colorsound mark IV tonebender and some big Muffs. This pedal is a great pedal it has a nice treble edge which gives the fuzz more clarity so it doesn't sound so muffled. I really like the Oscillating fuzz sound and the Maestro setting. pretty versatile Fuzz box.
keep calling it a bad pedal I got mine on ebay for $60.00 bucks like new and it work just fine. . but keep saying it's crap and may be the Next fz5 will go even cheaper love it! lol
andy again, making me want to buy things with money i don’t have. bless him.
i’m willing to bet money all the corksniffers in the comments complaining about it being a modeled fuzz wouldn’t be able to tel the difference if they had a blindfold on
Sonic Titan corksniffers will be corksniffers. Blindfold them & they can never differentiate Gibson from an Epiphone, Fender from a Squire, Sabian from a Zildjian, Marshall from a Vox and so on and so forth. If it costs more, then it’s better than cheaper ones because they like to get economically ripped off...
I can definitely tell this apart from a big muff. This pedal is mediocre sounding
Daniel Philcox no shit, a muff isn’t one of the fuzzes this pedal emulates
@Oakly Jeuneville it’s a saying man look it up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The most I like about your videos is watch you playing with your fingers
This is a fantastic pure no frills fuzz if you don't like this, your not a fan of fuzz in general, because it simply does just what it says.
Andy... Wow man your playing really hits it spot on!
I have one of these.
Good pedal. Good emulation and good price.
Three classic fuzzes in one. And it plays nice in add of wha pedal. All right! 👍🏻
Another awesome killer Boss pedal. I love it!
Great demonstration bro!! Thanks a lot!!
Message to Love! Love it!
Message to love from Band of Gypsys
I’ve never seen anyone demo playing Band Of Gypsys 🤘🏼I’ve never even seen anyone playing that song. Amazing. I know you must’ve been working on that one for a while.
Have owned 4 analogue fuzz's over the years... I didn't really get on with any of them. Some sounded positively bad even though they were rather expensive. I thought i'd give this pedal a go as I found one on ebay for a snip, very happy I did. The fuzz face is nice, the maestro setting is very harsh but great for that Lemmy sound if you use it on bass... If you roll down the highs you can just about use it on a guitar. The Octavia setting isn't too obvious, sounds good on bass too. Thought fuzz was not for me, glad to have been proved wrong.
dang ya know iv been looking st some expensive fuzzes and this one acutally rocks
This sounds much better than I thought it would.
Message of Love by Jimi from the live Band of Gypsys album. Great work again Andy.
I was kinda expecting to hear In A Gadda Da Vida ! Great video, great playing. That pedal rules
Andy your vids are some of the best guy!
guy, you're sure have the BEST VOICE in guitar review world!!!!! epic
it's amazing when you check out a lot of pros boards there is a lot of Boss. works just fine. focus on playing/chops and songwriting.
Whoa, was that a Satisfaction/Lonely Boy mashup?? Hell yeah!
Brilliant, after first note it's just sounds right!
I read your comment and agree that the Big Muff is a pretty good pedal as your comment suggests. This is coming from me and certainly doesn't reflect everyone's opinion. I like collecting gear and Boss and MXR products rate high on my list of favourites. "Who in their right mind buys a digital fuzz?", you ask. I haven't yet had the chance to test this Boss Fuzz but I have the feeling that it sounds pretty good. For guys like me, though, I simply like collecting different pedals digital or not.
I love how it sounds with the L P!!
nice 2007!
its a great road pedal for touring-you can them anywhere.
Sounds friggin awesome, for a DSP modelled fuzz which I'm guessing doesn't have all the associated futzyness of the weird transistors that go into a real fuzz. Very cool.
love Andy's playing style
Sounds like every single other non-famous player honestly,
.the same.nothing overtly unique or terribly original.but he can play pretty good.
The first PGS demo where I already had that pedal!!
Andy sorta just proves that pumping a gain pedal into a good tube amp sounds fantastic.
I do like his demos a lot though.
Thanks Dude. really helpful
I have one fuzz i love a lot, my Deep Trip BOG fuzz, awesome sounding fuzz and versatile
Sounds great!
Besides Andy's studio-musician level skills, I think that a great tube source tone and the compression are what make the gear demoed sound so great. Just listen to his voice. No-ones voice sounds like that naturally. There's a lot of filtering and various sound optimization going on. ProGuitarShop sets the bar.
Best overviewed on this Pedal.... still not shop, but now back to considering...
I remember when this came out, the store I wanted to buy it from asked for like 145 bucks. What a rip.
I have many fuzzes, and this one is a treasure. If you dislike it, just use a cheap graphic equalizer pedal - before or after, you decide it.
Andy = best gear salesman in the world.
Tone is in the hands and Andy's hands have great tone.
I just bought this and it's awesome.
@@coochieman4066it’s great, i recommend
That sounds great.
Man I love watching him play
Nice, Boss has come a long way with their COSM technology i think...
Got a message to love...🎸🎶
Great sound
I just found this in a drawer. Hahah. I'll test it out through my deluxe reverb once the sun comes up here. Sounds fun. Might stack it with my wampler ODs to see how it rounds out. Cool find, free toy 👍
So I just plugged one of these in, and it is a good pedal. What I like about is it is versatile, you get three distinct fuzz tones in one box. Furthermore the germanium transistor tones are pretty good. This is significant because real germanium transistors are very finicky. Pedals with these transistors will sound different pedal to pedal, and more significantly will change with the temperature. That this pedal will stay stable despite the temperature and probably be consistent pedal to pedal makes it pretty great in my book. On some sounds like overdrive, I don't ever want digital modeling, but on a fuzz it is perfectly fine, because fuzz pedals already sound funky and weird. I think it is a pretty good pedal, and I am a person who isn't a big Boss pedal fan. Playing it live will be the litmus test, however. If I change my mind, I will update this post.
Oh, and read the instructions. The middle setting does not work until you get the gain setting passed noon. I bought the pedal used, thought there was a problem, and thought there might be an internal bias control, and went online for the user manual. It explains this fact. The middle setting only wakes up when the gain setting is past noon. Hope all this helps.
On PGS's site, you'll find analog options in the same price range as this pedal. I am frugal when it comes to buying new gear, though the gear that I do have is good quality and useful. When I was younger, I made a lot of impulse buys on gear, which has led me to become a more informed consumer. Now, I do research before I buy gear, so that when I hear a cool demo featuring studio recordings of Hendrix covers, I don't immediately need to go out and buy it.
holy shit, if this audio was with a boutique fuzz pedal in the picture, you cork sniffers would be frothing....this thing sounds fucking awesome. just listen to that intro???!!! boss haters gtfo
I love Boss
Andy is so efficient in doing his job that h can make even an FZ-5 sound good. That could be called a miracle
Miracle? The FZ 5 sounds great.
@@savanaviolenta This pedal is a hot candidate for worst boss pedal of all times and I'm not alone in this. Find out what a Fuzz is, test a real fuzz next to this fz-5 digital abomination then report back.
@@rafasounds2010 you just can’t make it sound good doesn’t mean it’s a bad pedal mate
Hey PGS, cool demo. I have a querstion, maybe you can help me out. I like the Octa Fuzz type sound, but I'm not a die hard fuzz user, and would only use one sparingly. That said, I've avoided using them because they won't play nice with my wireless (acts as a buffer). However, something like this would work, since it's not a 'true' fuzz circuit, correct? Perhaps you can make a recommendation on a different octa fuzz type pedal that will work correctly after a wireless. thx.
spot on bud!
Will buy that to play death metal! Epic!
Sound is subjective it’s really down to a lot of different combinations and variables within your playing... i.e. the fat on your fingers, the type of pic, the type of guitar , the Amp etc... and the quality of the SONG...(least we forget)!!!
Andy, did you run this pedal through a clean amp? Or does this digital thing don't need an overdrive in front of it?
Personally, my biggest issue with this pedal is that it replaced the earlier FZ-2 and FZ-3, which were not modelling pedals at all. They're both rather respected in the stoner/doom community, and they were affordable because they weren't boutique.
This one seems geared towards classic tones, and it fulfills that role well.
don't get me wrong, i LOVE my Double Muff, Big Muff, Little Big Muff and Tone Wiker Big Muff .... I'm a fan of MUFF sounds and that's why I bought them all, but I like buying other stuff to continue exploring and having fun out of the "common water" .... Cheers and Merry Christmas
You know a lot more than I do about the engineering side. I'm sure you have a great ear too (but mine ain't bad either). I think I read somewhere that "resisters" inside an IC can vary much more than the 1% discrete components (and 1% is surprising, must be pretty costly even at volume pricing), and if any part of it contains analog circuitry, that might account for distinct differences in actual sound, which otherwise has no explanation - at least not yet. Best regards.
Thanks. It's already gone so I can't try it but I'm fairly sure I tried all pickups in all positions. I'd hoped to use it for the Blue on Black solo by Kenny Wayne Shepherd. KWS does use the neck pickup and goes down to the 10th fret (close enough), but there is no problem hearing the octave. He's using a much better pedal, but one that this pedal should at least be able to approximate. Didn't work for me, or on some of the UA-cam demos I've seen. Anyway, thanks again for the info.
The best Fuzz pedal I ever bought was the JHS Triangle Illuminati mod pedal. Combine that with tweed. Thunderous roar. I made figurines fall off my furniture 25 ft away with that bass roar.
I actually don’t mind this pedal. I use it with a blood moon phaser for some cool shoegaze tones. I don’t use it for basic rock and roll like most will. Just find a good amp to use it with and you’ll probably get some use with it.
The very fist mode Andy starts playing with the pedal, is total Hendrix. just needs that wah pedal with the phase/
In your demos can you show the dry signal then the effects of the pedals after so we can see the difference? thanks!
I was surprised by that too. Hendrix and Dan Auerbach in the same video. Only the best.
Great fuzz,very friendly behave with wah pedal
Hands down the best fuzz pedal. I don't like fuzz pedals at all but you can check out Heroine album by From First to Last. That to me has the best fuzz sounding tone and I tempted to buy one.
No Fuzz review would ever be complete without the Black Keys
Agreed, you have a reall ynice style. Got vibe
Is it still a good pedal though in good hands? Will it not give up on a good player?
I see your point. However, Pete Thorn uses a Boss digital fuzz because he also has a buffer in his rig. Pete knows a little something about tone too.
Will this do a Neil young sound or is the formula 55 a better choice?
This pedal works great. It's funny how the guitar nerds talk about boutique handmade analog pedals over the digital. At the end of the day they buy expensive pedals just to play in their bedroom.
Andy should have shares in everything he sells ...cos he SELLS IT
Fuzz pedal + black strat❤️
Even this vdo was 8 years ago but still convinced me to buy this fantastic fuzz.
I bought one too
I have a EHX little Bigmuff
EHX OPAMP and a EHX Rams Head
Love them all. There all on my board but I'm looking for that Electric Wizard dopethrone kinda fuzz. Maybe this is what im looking for. Never considered a Boss Fuzz pedal.
Not convinced yet. I do like the HF-2 better.
That intro was over the top!
how in the hell do you plat with your fingers like that? awesome
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Andy, you make average gear sound great......!!!
my friend had the same problem when he got his ac15, we made him try it out at GC too, but ... you know... it still sounded close to me but everyones computer speakers aren't the same either, hell, I got 70's basketweave 8" boxes wired up, theyre bigger than my monitor.
I'm listening to this in my earphones and it's totally awesome. I can hear it scratch my ears!