Overdrive, Distortion, Fuzz: What's the Fuzz'n Difference?
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- 🔊 Signal Chain: Jay’s Jazzmaster and Ryan’s jerry-rigged Harley Benton → JAM Pedals Fuzz Phrase ltd edition → DOD Gunslinger MOSFET Distortion Pedal → Ibanez TS Mini Tube Screamer → Blackstar HT Club 40 MKIII mic’d with a Warm Audio WA-87.
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See the full video here: ua-cam.com/video/eJC8W0tkbvg/v-deo.htmlsi=5nrItzXa5KMjmbqc We dig deep into the difference between Overdrive, Distortion, and Fuzz.
I once saw a comment elsewhere that said
Overdrive: bees
Distortion: angry bees
Fuzz: very angry bees
That is really well said.
Delay : the bees are coming
@@Gazeveil chorus: group of bees
Reverb - haunted by bees
@@josephbest7610flanger: the bees are dizzy
Fuzz is always a secret monster that too many metalheads find late. Love the fuzz
"Love the fuzz!" well said. We came to the same conclusion. Check out the full video here: ua-cam.com/video/eJC8W0tkbvg/v-deo.htmlsi=5nrItzXa5KMjmbqc
Never liked fuzz, there's no dynamics, it squishes every nuance
The entire Doom Metal and Stoner Rock scene revolves around fuzz pedals! I love it! Some of the nastiest guitar tones is found in those genres, especially Sludge
I use a fab fuzz to boost my fab tone going into an orange or 30 and imo that combo into my 6x12 cab loaded with grey wolf and man o war speakers is the ultimate doom or sludge tone
@@hallamalla98agreed
as a psychedelic guitarist ive only got 4 levels of gain: clean, fuzz, more fuzz, and hella fuzz
There are many schools of psych rock, i never use fuzz. Just straight into the amp baby
@@ganglestank great psych is in the writing, not so much the effects. Fuzz is really overrated and overdone in most genres
@@sunkintree right I mean what’s trippier than some jazzy psych rock that’s got a tint of eastern harmony and unless your like santana, the fuzz will turn the honey to salt
@@growskull same here
As someone who doesn't play guitar, I think I get it.
That is a great compliment, thanks. Our goal was to help demystify this for everyone.
I'm an acoustic bluegrass guy and this helped me learn the difference between these three pedals. I've really only used a loop pedal
@@Bagofsand1 that is great to hear. Thanks for that!
@@NoFearGuitarGear No problem! I'm currently building a telecaster to start experimenting with electric, so I gotta learn about the pedals. Appreciate you 🤙
Understanding the design is important:
Overdrive - emulates tube saturation
Distortion - hard clip of the signal
Fuzz - drastic clip of the signal causing it to become a square wave instead of a sine wave.
Overdrive will give you the warmest tone, while Fuzz will give you massive, brittle distortion.
I love fuzz so much
Us to.
Maybe play the same riff so we can get an actual comparison
Actually I think its better to play something adecuate to each pedal, for example, if you test them with some bluesy licks you will think that the fuzz is dogshit and that the od its the best, but if you play a sick metal riff the od will sound like absolute crap, each pedal has its own use and it really shows
If you're not detecting/understanding the difference then the problem is you, not the difference in riffs
But then how will we know that he is a super duper rad guitarist 😎
@@armando6169Hendrix played blues licks on a fuzz and it was sublime
@@Slamthulhu it's a lot better if he uses the same example for each. Yeah you can hear the difference but for more clarity and emphasis of different sounds, a same example is better.
That Jazzmaster is sweet.
over drive and distortion is good enough for me 😊
Overdrive: Ritchie Blackmore
Distortion: Everyone
Fuzz: Tommy Iommi
Overdrive into fuzz is the best
Love that approach! 👍🏼
Overdrive into fuzz with bass amp
This is produced like a late night infomercial from the mid-90s.
There is life before and after discovering fuzz
Is after better or worse in your view? We are on the side of better, but that seems to be a controversial take.
They all change your attack! It’s all distortion, different levels with different equalization, overdrive is a fancy term for low to mid level gain, distortion is a bit on the edge and fuzz is full on gain, to the limits of signal resilience
Well said, thanks!
Distortion sounds great here
Cassualy opens dist when playin a jazzmaster
You merely adopted the fuzz… I was born in it !
The difference is the harshness of the signal clipping. Soft clipping, hard clipping and square wave clipping.
For an actual demo it’d been nice to hear the same playing through each pedal. The soft carful strumming of the clean through each as well as the chugging of the distortion. This was a great example of what the pedals ultimately do, and they sound awesome, but it’s not as educational as it could be.
Every man's choice: the screamer
Distortion is noise . Overdrive is the blending of Harmonics
Distortion isn't noise. When u use distortion in a signal, it will produce more harmonics due the saturation that it's happening, so, as u said, is blending harmonics too
The definition of distortion is adding harmonics
@@juanaldrey3033I mean harmonic distortion yeah but there’s other types of distortion such as phase distortion that doesn’t introduce harmonics. Distortion is actually a really weird thing to pin down as a definition, strictly speaking, it’s any alteration of a signal from its original state, so basically everything you do to a wave, if it changes anything about it, it’s distortion but obviously that’s a pedantic difference but it is a cool thing to be aware of as other forms of distortion can create some really weird effects
@@memeswillneverdie distortion, as it pertains to electric guitar tone, differs from what people refer to as "modulation," which is any kind of signal filter or effect.
when people say "distortion," (again, in guitarist nomenclature) theyre referring to gaining up a guitar's signal until it gets compressed by a pedal or an amp. when this happens, the smoother sine-like wave of your guitar playing gets compressed, and cut-off to turn it more into a square or sawtooth wave.
with a (clean) boost, you cleanly boost the guitars signal in front of an amp to get more compression and distortion from the amp itself.
with an overdrive pedal, its generally intended to boost the amp, while adding more distortion and tone shaping from the pedal itself.
with a distortion pedal, again, more of the distortion comes from the pedal as opposed to the amp.
with a fuzz pedal, even more of the waveform distortion comes from the pedal, and certain transistors are preferred for how much more they tend to shape and "squash" the waveform.
you can use a fuzz or a distortion as a boost or an overdrive as a low setting, while the opposite isnt generally possible unless you stack several boosts/od's together in a chain. a compressor is arguably a boost as well, and sometimes acts like an overdrive if it "distorts" the signal on its own.
all of these pedals "blend harmonics" differently to a degree. fuzzes and distortions are usually meant to be aggressive and change the tone much more, whereas overdrives and boosts are more "transparent," as in you hear more of the original guitar tone.
@@DaarthPingas yeah in guitarist terms but I’m speaking more in signal processing terms or physics terms. Also fuzz is a product of extreme asymmetrical distortion which causes an abundance of 2nd and 3rd order harmonics and due to the severity the amount of harmonnics has a drastic impact on the sound.
Overdrive: spicey
Distortion: things get interesting
Fuzz: HELL YEAH!
The two flames.
Love some dirty garage rock fuzz or doom metal fuzz 🔥🔥🔥
fuzz is like a distortion pedal with the static of an old crt tv on top of it. i think the distortion is the best honestly
That's a fucking great sounding guitar
Those P90s 🤩
Jazzmasters don’t have p90’s, they are single coils
It gives one of those old infomercials that you'd find on TV
Plus, if you activate overdrive you’ll get double the points.
Before watching the video, my guesses:
Overdrive: adjusts the audio clipping point to achieve the desired sound
Distortion: hecks it up with math to achieve the desired sound
Fuzz: bitcrushes the audio to achieve the desired sound
Alright let's see how wrong I was
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Well I don't know if the guesses themselves are incorrect or not but I can say I was wrong about what this video was going to entail
It's confusing on purpose because it's a marketing gimmick. Those words don't mean a damn thing, except now guitar players think they have to own at least three of the same type of pedal.
Bro got that mark rober voice
I think clean tone guitar line starts from 0 3 5 😮
Overdrive: For boring music.
Distortion: Good for metal guitar.
Fuzz: Good for metal bass.
Who hurt you?
Didn't realise bands driving a Marshall with an overdrive were boring 🤔
well now lets take distortion and turn it all the way up
I don't know why but I love fuzz on bass but hate it on guitar lol
Interesting. You are not alone. Fuzz on guitar has been really polarizing.
In the eighties our guitarist had a punk-fuzz. The amount of violence that that thing produced was really out of this world.
Never cared much for fuzz. All ya need is a nice tube Amp and drive it hard. Smashing Pumpklns Siamese Dream is as close to fuzz I'll go.
Dude that's all fuzz... Nice tube amp crank it loud and throw in the big muff
Bro really played smoke on the water to test the clean tone
Am I the only one that wasn't a huge fan of the fuzz?
Surfragette shirt is actually a w
3 great pedals, didn’t play anything hooky. Oddly impressive.
Thanks! I think. 😉
I never liked fuzz. 😢
I do not like either of these people
I use an overdrive to boost my crunch and lead channels. I’m yet to find a distortion or fuzz I agree with but it’s all preference at the end of the day
Idk why I've always hated the Fuzz sound. I find distorsion more precise. But thx for the knowledge guys 🖤🖤
Same here. I don’t get why people like it.
The surfrajetes t-shirt ♥️
Clean tone - Pop, Overdrive - Rock, Distortion- Metal, Fuzz - Shoegaze; ofcourse you can mix it up do what you like, what you want
The Eighth, Nineth and Tenth Wonder Of The World . One Satriani Vox Ice 9 Overdrive (tube screamer based) Two 18v Eagletone (Biyang) ODT-100 (Tube Preamp drives my Fender Twin to 200 Watt Land) Three-Joyo Voodoo Octave Fuzz (best Fuzz sound I have heard).
This Is The Way…
That last bit he played wasn't this but sounded A LOT like "I Love My Leather Jacket" a 1986 hit by New Zealand band The Chills whose frontman guitarist Martin Phillipp's died this week, aged 61, from Hepatitis C. You may also like their other hits Pink Frost (1984), Doledrums(1984), Heavenly Pop Hit (1990), Male Monster from the Id(1992).
Never liked fuzz... Too muddy, no feel of attack, it's like you're losing the feedback from the instrument no matter how you play it it's just buzzing
Not much really but atleast im not buying a 4k amp for tone 😂
Those single coil p-90s Sound really good with all the pedals I am kinda a bit surprised.., although lately I have purchased a New American Telecaster and I like the the single coils ,so I might not put in a stackable humbucker..? It , sounds really good like it is....
Overdrive is classic rock. Distortion is hard rock and heavy metal. Fuzz is just shitty quality amps
So Fuzz shouldn't have been in this comparison. You should've done Boost, Overdrive, Distortion. Fuzz does all 3 and clips the wave form the most. Like depending on your amp you might get enough distortion from a boost, and with mild overdrive get a nice tone. But if you go boost, overdrive, distortion and have the sense to have a good eq pedal you can get fuzz tones. It's just too many pedals to have on when one, the Fuzz, can do all 3. Buying a Fuzz? Grab the Boss Waza FZ-1w. Its quiet when it's not on. Want more clipping? Want some madness in your tone to? Way Big Swolen Pickle. And best Budget Fuzz hands down is TC Electronic's Rusty Fuzz.
All you people who say wood makes a difference in tone. Really? This is all the proof you need to see how little wood tones make a diffence. We are not dog therefore cant really hear much difference.
No doubt the pedals and amps make the biggest difference when chasing certain tones.
Speakers makes a big difference as well. I recommended Spector Sound Studios’ videos about it.
Idky, over 20 years of playing. I just can’t get fuzz at all ! I have tried many times but nope… just me
Overdrive into a crunchy amp is my preference. Distortion is good if you don't have a high gain amp. But outside of the attack fuzz just sounds like noise.
Overdrive is just perfect
So what do they actually do besides take my tone to the next level, add character, or be crazy by changing the characteristics?
Overdrive: has a smoother signal line, drives it higher but when the signal reaches the peak and distorts, it does so smoothly, keeping a lot of the original sound. It literally drives the signal over the limmits hence the name.
Distortion does the same but more agressively and adds some harmonics as well, so the signal is more ubrupt. It sidtorts the guitar sound too much to hear a difference in even what instrument plays, and so it is preffered on the more aggressive songs.
Fuzz is purpy a grudge invention, it peaks the signal extremely aggressively but does not add any harmonics, that is why it sounds like the distortion effect, but not as bright. It is kind of a middle ground between the other two when it comes to keeping the original sound of the instrument, but can easily be considered more aggressive than the distortion effect in many cases. It squares the signal even more than the distortion.
fuzz is even harmonic noise. Distortion is odd harmonic noise. I see people don't know the basics anymore. You take white noise and change the EQ of it. Even means even numbered frequencies. Distortion used to mean odd numbered frequencies. Depending on the box or processor/circuit, he brand can add secret signal processing to it to make it more likeable. Fuzz sounds plush and easy on the ears. Distortion can tire out your ears if done wrong (which is why rock used to use it for damage). There exists way more signal processing. Alot of the musicians now don't know about the trade secret tricks. You can flip the polarity of things and really start screwing with the sound.
I also would like to know where I can learn more about this
This makes no sense, but fools the unaware with tech talk wanking
Idk wtf your talking about but I think I like it and wish I understood better
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I’m sorry dude but way to over complicate it, at the end of the day the difference is just how much clipping is applied to the signal.
It would probably be more illustrative if you'd play the same riff through each effect.
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Easy! You only need overdrive! You want more drive, put another overdrive on.....and you won't ruin your guitars sound/tone!!
Now try running the overdrive into the distortion into the fuzz. And stand back....
Test it with the same chord please, so newbie guy like me can truly understand
Fuzz + Tube Screamer is the best combo
Cant stand fuzz
Mf turned into electric wizard
I like to hear fuzz when other guitar players are using it, but when I try to use it, seems like a farting sound...
To make ur point… why don’t you play the same riff with all the effects…. 😮
Only the distortion is the best.
Why is he hitting it so hard
Distortion in made by the box not how hard you hit it
Cept maybe that's you playing style...😂
I like fuzz on bass or keys better. Wouldn't play with out distortion and delay !
Fuzz + TOOL guitars equal perfection
I would say the pedals add 50% of whatever he says… the way he is attacking the strings is the other 50%
2 types of pedals I will never buy: Fuzz and Chorus
So
Overdrive: distortion
Distortion: distortion pro
Fuzz: Distortion pro max
Dude your strumming technique is cool! Very percussive
I have all three in my transmission. Overdrive is the only one that came from factory. The other two were due to neglect and poor maintenance.
This feels like an infomercial.
Activating an effects pedal with anything other than a foot is just criminal
Can’t wait to grab one of them hello kitty fuzz pedals 😂
Fuzz = Catastrophic/instable/critic state...
Still not a huge fan of (guitar) fuzz.
It is a surprisingly polarizing topic. Thanks for joining the dialog here.
I get the the differences but i hate that the need to change to another tune,can you just play a same tune with different pedal😅😅
Hey man because I'm so curious, can I request a short video with that pedal but with bass?
my amp's in-build overdrive sounds a like fuzz lol
Am I the only one who quite don't like fuzz pedals 😂
I never like fuzz sound. It's too high and dirty
Would be more informative if he played the same thing in each demo.
normal conversation then raising voice finishing with screaming and arguing
What about stacking distortion and overdrive together
Distortion> Fuzz
Fender squealing noise. This is not music.
That jazzmaster needed a tuner before any other pedal 😬
My next fiddle will have P-90’s
Screamer in front of the fuzz😁
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