A FUZZ PEDAL CAN DO IT ALL!
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2020
- A FUZZ
A simple design, and my absolute favorite pedal.
The range of tones are endless.
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Let me know your thoughts on FUZZ!
GEAR USED:
1959 Fender Stratocaster
20W Deluxe amp
60's Vox WAH WAH
60's Zonk Machine
2005 MJM Fuzz (nkt)
STRINGS: www.curtmangan.com
CONTACT: Nicholas.sevigny@gmail.com
INSTAGRAM: / nik_sevigny
PEACE AND THANKS!
Fuzz Face is the greatest effect ever made. All you need is a good fuzz face, a good tube amp, and know how to use your volume knob.
100%!
Absolutely agree!! It does so much from offering a unique clean-ish colored boost all the way to the beautiful bloom effect that plumes in a extremely pleasant way! Don't forget to try rolling the tone off on the bridge pickup while using your fuzz in an overdrive fashion to achieve the "woman tone" which was technique used by Clapton
@@theriffwniksevigny5473 Hi where would u place the univibe before or after a Digiteach Wammy and Wah?
Totally agree
The Future is now!
Important note: NOT ALL FUZZ will clean up with the volume! Really, the Fuzzface is the KING! Though the Zonk Machine is SICK!
This is exactly how I’m (trying to play) playing my rig. King Tone Mini Fuzz Ge is the hub. I had to add a push/pull treble bleed because the clean tone had too much treble?
Your setting up your fuzz tone up, post was really helpful. What amp, and how it’s set up is also very important.
Not easy, very satisfying, hard to master
I just love your style of playing Nik!
Great video and playing of course......thx Nik
Thank YOU!
This was great Nik. So many fantastic tones out of one type of pedal.
I really love your channel Nik, always inspiring
Amazing vid. Thank you, Nik!
Thank YOU for the interest!
Absolutely the best fuzz explanation and demoing of the possibilities I ever saw, great job, tone and awesome playing, man!
The Fuzz Face is so legendary. Not just for its great fuzz tones, but it cleans up so nicely when rolling down the volume knob on the guitar.
Legend ! Very helpful & inspirational 👍🏻💥
Such a great video, Nik! You always break things down perfectly, brother.
Thanks my friend!
Glad I found your channel, I love your way of explaining things man. Keep kicking ass
Thank you Brenden. Just trying to be straight forward, simple and informative. Thanks for
The interest and the feedback!
FF absolutely🎉
Love it when you talk fuzz Nik 👍🏻 The first fuzz I owned was my break through moment on using the volume knob, as you say, it’s all there… especially into a cranked amp.
You bet!
thanks man ......
A point you're driving home, the Guitarist is really playing the pedals and amp as well as the guitar.
A Players Rig is made up of many key components, magic happens when the Player is self-aware and in-tune with/part-of his or her's Rig.
100% my man
Well said. 👍
Hendrix was king of this concept. I dont think many us get to play loud enough for long enough to get this down
. Great comment
Nice man, i've just woke up, drinkin my coffee and I hear this... Great SRV\Jimi\Robin Trower tone, nice feel and touch... Make it weep bro! Cheers!
Thanks for the great explanation :)!!
Couldn't said it any better myself!
I'm so glad that you mentioned Doyle's Welcome album! I think its pretty underrated blues rock album. Great video Nik!
Thank you!
Welcome is an amazing album. 🙌🏻
One of my favorite records, too.
God yes...’Welcome’ is a HUGE leap forward for DBII. It was the beginning of the focus shifting to his songwriting (best of his career to that point IMHO) and his great singing with great backing, especially from Adam Minkoff and James Gadson!
garbeaj Jellycream was Exceptional, can’t look over that genius. Welcome is one of the best albums, Ever.
As always, great vid Nik! It’s all subjective to player preference but your opinion is definitely worth lending an ear to! Great tones, great riffs, great conversation about the use and applications of fuzz. Hell ya!
Thanks so much! Trying to keep it straight forward and informative at the same time!
Nik! I agree with you about fuzz pedals. It's funny, I've had several fuzzes over the last 40 years but I never appreciated fuzzes up until the last couple of years. Now I swear to you, my Fuzz is literally an always on pedal, at least 95 % of the time.
Thanks so much for your awesome informative videos.
Thank You for watching!
Great point about cranking the Volume knob on the Fuzz Face if you want sparkly cleans. And don't be afraid of turning the Fuzz knob down. Depending on how much gain the transistors have to begin with, they might never clean up otherwise. The third component is playing into a slightly dirty and compressed tube amp. You need the compression to limit the volume drop when you roll back the volume on the guitar.
The above works with every fuzz face, no need to go boutique with rare transistors. I'm using the stock large Germanium Fuzz Face by Dunlop and with the guitar volume at 7 I have sparkly cleans for surf, at 8 it's dirty, at 9 it's overdriven and at 10 it's fat fuzz with sustain.
Sounds bang on!
Amazing video my friend👍
Thank you VV!
Just bought a fuzz face mini to pair with the 62 music master and 64 epiphone pacemaker. One day I will get a better fuzz face but the mini definitely does work
Amazing improvement on the video editing nik...I love where your channel is going... cheers brother🍻
Thank you so much, I’ve been working on it and I kind of snuck it in without mentioning anything so I’m glad it was noticed!
Just got to agree. One of my fav channels
I had a treble bleed on my Strat for a while and it was giving too bright of a tone when rolling back with my joe bonamassa ff. When I upgraded pickups I removed the treble bleed and went to 50s Gibson style output wiring for a faster cleanup. Now it gives clean glassy tone just turning down between 8 and 9. Really versatile. Great video. Keep up the good work.
I also have a treble bleed on my strat. I installed a push/pull volume pot which disengages the treble bleed when using the fuzz. The fuzz sounds so much better without the bleed.
Michael Armstrong good idea. Best of both worlds.
great video thank you, just tried a few of the tips on my tone bender, its all money
Excellent!! Good to know!
The thing that makes it very difficult for many people to understand regarding fuzz pedals is whether these pedals are better when used with a dirty or clean amp, there is a lot of confusion on the internet with different and conflicting opinions, I hope someone does clarity about it
Definitely fuzz before wah.. You nailed it nik.. Fabulous video.. Thanks
U bet! Thank you!
For Hendrix style tones...when Page used the ‘66 Tonebender he ALWAYS put the grey Vox wah first.
@@AllenGarberGuitarFunjimi's signal path went. Guitar, wah, fuzz... I find guitar, fuzz, then wah gives one more dynamics to the wah sounds and reminiscing of more Eric Johnson tones.. Ten ton violins..
The Fuzz Face is more popular than ever.
Great Content, thank you Nick.
Yeah, I've a couple Germanium Fuzz Pedals and love them.
Backing off the Guitar's Volume provides that great clean tone.
I'd like to add that backing off the volume for a nice clean tone works much better with the Strat's 250K pots verses the 500K pots in my Les Paul!
You may find results with a silicon fuzz/gibson combo
you should do a vid on how to wire your own original style fuzz face since most of us arent going to get a original, the build your own wah vid was legit
Welcome is such a great album, I remember I played that disc on repeat for a long time when it was released. All of Doyle's tones on it are phenomenal and his fuzz really stands out. After watching this I had to go pull it back out and marathon it again!
But to the point, these are the tone secrets you learn when you start playing the guitar, the pedal, and the amp instead of just plugging in, clicking on, and going for it. Well done, sir. Great tones
Curtis, thank you very much. I really appreciate the input and positive feedback!
What is your favorite track from Welcome?
@@theriffwniksevigny5473 it's a toss up between Last Night, Blame, Cry, and...STOP ASKING ME WHICH KID IS MY FAVORITE!!! Haha! Seriously though, those are my top 3 in any order.
I hear ya. The wah wah work on that record is pretty great too
@@theriffwniksevigny5473 hard to beat his hands, that (63?) strat, ge FF, old Vox, and that '68 (I think it was) Super Bass he used on there. Those tones are magic. Some of my favorite strat tones on record.
I got a chance to work on that amp. It was heavy, in all forms.
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_"If you like it so much, why dontcha marry it."_ : )
This whole thing was fantastic. Inspiring. But, there were a few seconds in there that were absolutely stunning, and they were the quietest moments. @4:37 - oooof.
Wut
Subbed, subbed and thrice subbed. Stellar content.
What is your favorite fuzz face? Which of the nkt275, bc108, ac128, and 183 do you like the most and have a good balance? I am using tfk 108c original fuzz face, but I am curious about other original versions
Nkt or tfk can keep me happy. But i always favor a warm fuzz
Thank you for answer. With a good amp and fuzzface, virtually every area is covered.
I find fuzz is one of the hardest pedals to dial in. If you get a chance sometime show us how you dial in your guitar/amp/fuzz settings for the iconic sounds like voodoo chile sr etc. Thanks man!
P.S. Just some thoughts on treble bleed. One way to look at a vintage circuit is as a treble boost: for amps (bass circuits) as they are pushed they get muddy and and flabby, if you don't have a treble bleed then when you roll up you are giving a treble "boost" to help counter act that..... Just another way to look at it. Your tone sounds great though....
The way I set up my rig is I set my amp to a light breakup with the guitar's volume at 10. The Volume knob on the Fuzz Face is at 90% (to get rid of the excessive hiss), which puts me above unity. This way I'm slamming the amp, overdriving it and compressing it more. I set the Fuzz knob at 75%, enough gain to give me fat sustain with the guitar volume at 10, sparkly cleans at 7 and every level of dirt in between. It's important that the amp be compressed so you don't lose too much level when you roll back the volume knob on the guitar.
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@@AndreaAustoni Thanks man!
love the fuzz vids. Any tips on getting a good tone with Fender blackface or even silver faces? Marshalls seem made for it, but my Princeton get's that trashy top end.
Yea. Like a said in the video, it can get hairy.
Turn some treble down in the amp.
Bring the volume down on the fuzz and bring in some warmth from the tone knob on your guitar..maybe that may help
Thanks! I think my prob is once you hear it thru a JTM 45 circuit w 4x12 it’s hard to expect the same gloriousness thru a Princeton. Enjoy your vids and playing. Maybe we’ll meet one day if touring life w Rod Stewart returns for me.
Have you ever used the Fulltone '70? I heard that it's a great copy of the original fuzzface but I'm not sure.
Nik, do you know why my 90's reissue Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face (JHF2) don't have the same dynamic: there are only two kinds of sound, before volume 8 and after. Could you tell why it happens? Is it usual on this kind of pedal?
Get the amp sounding the best FIRSt. Then set your fuzz to unity volume,and raise it in small amounts. Make sure the fuzz is first
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Years ago I had a guitar with a similar issue when using my Fuzz. Turns out that guitar had an incorrect taper pot for my application.
Maybe someone else can add to this comment because I can't remember which was the pot that worked best, the linear or audio taper!
Nik, i've already watched this video! it's amazing, helped me a lot - i'm subscribed, so i dont miss a thing hahahahaha gonna try it again, now in a higher volume, using an atenuator and increasing the volume slowly. thank you a lot for answering and for the videos, always great!
HK Guitar - thank you a lot for your help! it's not the case, actually: it happens in different guitars. I'm aware of those issues. glad to be part of such a friendly guitar community!
Hey Nik! Hope you're alright! My strat has 6k output pickups and I'm using a 50's wiring. I really like to play with the volume and tone knobs with the fuzz but I don't quite get it to clean up like you do and I kinda lose some high end. Do you think a treble bleed would solve this? It's not a big expensive fuzz (Tone City Fuxx Fuzz with octavia too) , maybe that's the issue as well... Thank you man!
Treble bleed
Will do it
Not all fuzzes clean up. King Tone fuzz has an input impedance of 15 and it cleans fantastic. Big Muff has 500, and it doesnt cleans. Do you know the input impedance of your fuzz ?
Beautiful tones. I'm assuming that was fuzz before the wah?
Yes!
Do you prefer running your Fuzzes into a clean or edge of break up amp? I know you've been into Tweeds recently and normally people run those hot. Thanks!
I get a good strong base tone before i put any pedal in the mix. That is key
The Riff w Nik Sevigny is that base tone more crunchy or clean?
Aaron Boothe its whatever im looking for at the time, but something that can support rhythm playing, not crunchy, but a little grit on the note
a fuzz pedal can do it al
practice can do it all
This is great info, subscribed! Do you have the wah first or after the fuzz in the video?
Fuzz into wah
@@theriffwniksevigny5473 but Jimi put the wah first!!
@@stevehunter252 ok...? Im not anything close. And not always. Just some tones to have fun with
Do you know anything about the germanium mini fuzz king tone makes? Any thoughts on that pedal if so?
I sure do, Jesse is a great friend and builds amazing pedals. You can’t go wrong with any of his products
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Super awesome. I am fastly becoming a HUGE fan of your channel. Keep up the great work!
Thanks Nik, I'm just starting to dive down this hole and I'm learning a lot from your channel. Keep making these videos.
I own one, it's AMAZING
Great video!
Ever tried the Zonk Machine by BPC? Interested in buying one but very little information about them.
Take care!
No, but i had an original Zonk on here, and it is really fun!
@@theriffwniksevigny5473 Yeah, love the tone you get out of it 👊
did jimi has the treble bleed on his strat? how did he clean up his tone without drop his volume?
With tons of volume!!
Nik, what do you think about the newer Mini Fuzz Faces?
They are great!
If you roll back the guitar volume to the point where you get that nice clean tones, how does it differ from your normal clean tone? Can anyone explain what it does to your overall EQ? Is there more presence?
Thanks!
It’s glassy
Would you put a big muff silicon fuzz first or just germanium? I run my strat into my uni vibe first then the big muff. Will try the other way
The order will actually help you in some ways because the mouth can get real fizzy and hairy (See what I did there), So it may cure some of that but germanium or silicon I’m set on plugging into it first
@@theriffwniksevigny5473 cheers Nik. I've seen a few videos were they put the univibe first??? Based on the tones you get Nik I'll be deffinaty plugging fuzz first.
Darren C i may do a pedal order video next
@@theriffwniksevigny5473 look forward to it mate. It's interesting how certain pedals work differently with fender amps as opposed to marshall amps. All those little nuances are so interesting especially when you can really turn the amps up
With my treble bleed, My fuzz face cleans up too quick (from 10 to 9 its already totally clean), what should i do? I use 0.001uf and 150k parallel as duncan scheme
Try a 500pf cap
I also put fuzz first, but I have a boss tu2 very first, do you put a tuner before?
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The Riff w Nik Sevigny thank you sir
I have an extra treble bleed. If anybody in the US wants it, reach out to me. I will drop it in the mail.
Is the mini Dunlop Hendrix fuzz good?
Sure!
I got the band of gypsys mini fuzz face recently its a monster
IMPORTANT INFO FOR NOVICES: the fuzz face is one of the worst rabbit holes in the guitar universe. You might go through ten before you find a good one, and many more before you find a GOLDEN one like Jimi/Stevie/Doyle/Sayce. Jimi's custom was to buy every fuzz face at Manny’s and have them delivered to his studio. He’d record them, keep any good ones and give the rest away. Jimi tested countless fuzzes so don’t think you guys can just buy a pedal online and get that sound. The guys that own incredible sounding fuzzes have gone through dozens, believe me.
Ha. Thank god for these ears!
how do you explain that i ordered a london online & get that sound at first strike ? It's impossible you seem to say.
@@Shadow__Banned I didn't say impossible, I said good ones are rare, great ones are extremely rare. Either you got lucky as hell, or you don't know what a FF is supposed to sound like.
I had jimis roadie in 86 for a tour and he gave me a fuzz face now in museum in Seattle but my bass player has a first made Marshall fuzz from mid sixties and I wondered if you have any info on its value . Message please on messenger graham Oliver founder of uk rock band Saxon
Forget about the knock offs and save money for the real thing.
It is