Cuvave Fuzz: I accidentally discovered a simple way to reclaim that gated/velcro rip.
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- This super budget-priced fuzz pedal became an overnight sensation when Ryan Burke's fantastic '60 Cycle Hum' channel featured it over two years ago. However, the Cuvave company (in its infinite wisdom) decided to change the recipe and remove the gated gnarly fuzz sound that everybody loved.
Subsequent super-smart channels (such as DIY Pedals) have brilliantly showed how to get the velcro rip back by using soldering irons and having some understanding of electronics, but for a luddite like me I can only sit back in awe of their wisdom.
However! A chance re-exploration of the pedal on my part led to a revelation. A perfectly simple way to reclaim the rip! Enjoy.
00:00 Introduction
01:10 Unboxing and first sounds
02:12 Refining the recording
03:07 "The Drawer of Disappointment"
04:18 Smarter people than me
05:42 The discovery!
07:43 Fuzz bass in full glory
08:42 Fuzz bass with rip
09:28 Guitar with full fuzz
10:26 Guitar with rip
11:17 Norman Greenbaum!
Thanks for the tip!
You reminded me of something, if the velcro sound is from the low battery... I took my multi volts power supply and put it on 7.5volts and still no, then lowered it to 6volts and there it was! the super ripped velcro sound! I went back to 9volts and it really sounds too big, although good. So I went back to 7.5volts, just to listen good, and I must say that you have a nice middle ground between the big and the ripped sound. Fantastic!
I have this pedal. The one I have is pretty awesome. A terrific fuzz pedal for the money.
You don't permanently change the gating with that mod because he puts a variable resistor in. So uou can turn the little dual and adjust how much velcro rip you want or back to the way it was
Can you give the title of the video for me to do this please?
I just received the Mvave and it's nasty ungated cuvave. I tamed it with a eq after. Cheers
For more consistency, maybe modifying a wall power supply to have a potentiometer might be a bit more convenient than having to source a battery with enough discharge on it
Yes, the battery method results in fairly random outcomes, but I was delighted when I stumbled upon it by accident. Glad that it's sparked a bit of chat and interest though. Cheers!
As a bass fuzz it's beautiful!
Totally agree. It retains plenty of bottom end but gives heaps of attitude as well. Hard to fault. Cheers mate!
OMG I finally found a use for the "Dying Battery Simulator" that I bought months and months ago on Reverb. The thing runs off a 9V adapter and uses a resistor to modify the output to a range of 1.5V to 9V. 1.5V is WAY too low so I'm popping in a different value of resistor today (thanks, Amazon). 5 or 6 to 9V should allow me to dial in a more precise value. Anything below 6 usually causes the signal to just cut out. Can't wait to try it with the Musiclily Octave Fuzz that's in the mail (I just found out it's being delivered right now!) . Thanks so much!
Cool! Let me know how that works out for you. I've since found that the method I've used in this video doesn't work for all pedals. With some other fuzz units it just sounds dark and dull when the battery is weaker.
I've got that Musiclily Octave Fuzz (branded as Pigtone), it's a gnarly unit. You'll have fun with it. Cheers!
@@NewFalconerRecords Thanks! I will! (Yeah I know what you mean about the dying battery trick. Works well with some - not so good with others.)
@@NewFalconerRecords My fuzz is a dud! I'll explain later. So disappointed.
@@thezeroroom Just curious. Did anything come of that dud fuzz pedal experience? I'm going to do a video about a bunch of octave fuzzes (including that one) and I'm interested to hear your story. All the best.
@@NewFalconerRecords Hey! Yeah that thing was probably a dud 'cause it would have been a keeper. There thing had a LOT of noise, a mile-high pitched hum actually picked up a radio station. 🤣 Even turning down the guitar volume had strange effects. Starving the voltage very carefully got rid of these issues and gave it a really good tone. But I got fed up with the loss of pedal board space and sold it at a very low price. I replaced it with a FuxxFuzz and while the octave effect is ok the "fuzz" is not. The tone can't be set past half or you're asking for trouble. Considering giving up on the octave fuzz effect altogether. I've heard a few really good ones that have an almost instantaneous octave up overtone on single tones at high gain. Much more musical.
Use a dead battery pedal, or make one. Then the gating can be controlled like the "Pinch" knob on the ZVex Wooly Mammoth fuzz, which this Cuvave is aleady a near exact copy
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I have a multi volt adapter that I can bring down to like 7 and a half volts or even lower I wonder if I could daisy chain that with a bunch of pedals and have a whole bunch of crazy tones and then flick a switch to 9 bolts if I want
this gizmo doesnt like when you have it in a chain of pedals...60s cycle hum vid made me excited...but once at home the pedal is very dissapointing, maybe these first gated serie is better...for now: back into the dissapointment box😆ill stick to thee almighty zvexx fuzzfactory and for when in need i take the behringer super fuzz.
If ya put it 1st in the chain she rips bud...at least it does for me. After a bunch of trial and error with placement 1st from guitar seemed to be it's favorite home
or just change out that resistor for a trim pot and bias to taste. Could also try the Little Bear clone of the Woolly Mammoth.
It's a 2 transistor fuzz that needs to be first in the pedal chain and not immediately followed by any pedal with a buffer.
tons of fuzz pedals are like this, not just the cuvave. Place it first in chain for best results.
could you do a video trying a noise gate on the cuvave to see if that would work too??
That's getting a little too advanced for me 😉
Yours sounded right out the box better than mine I traded it off though so I dunno if I'm willing to buy another one to modify plus I already have a wooly mammoth clone that's great
UA-cam does do weird things with compression and what you play can sound better or worse than what it sounds like in the room. But seriously the bottom end was more extreme than what it sounds like on this video, things were literally jumping around on shelves when I was playing and it was sooo woofy. If you've got a Woolly Mammoth clone that works then that's great. Does it have the Pinch knob option?
@@NewFalconerRecords yup and it definitely makes it more gated and rippy I think that's the only thing the cuvave is missing it's kind of a bias control I haven't tried lowering the voltage to it to see if that makes it better or just different but it's funny I'm pretty sure the cuvave fuzz was in the bundle I traded to get the mammoth clone that I got
@@wesmitchem825 You did well, no doubt about it, sounds like a beauty. I was glad that I made my accidental discovery with the Cuvave. It's such a cheap pedal that it's hard to fault it really for the price, this whole video was just a bit of fun. I appreciate your feedback! Cheers.
Wooly Mamoth clones 100aus at the moment Ali. Express and Temu.
Get a "Dan Electrode" variable power supply... It allows you to starve the power supply in a controlled manner...
What would it sound like if you plugged a 9 volt battery in the original fuzz!🤔
It's amazing the company that makes these is stating there's "no difference" and seems to be going out of their way to obfuscate the CUVAVE/cuvave/M-VAVE differences. Beyond annoying.
it s rather a fart pedal
Once you bring the voltage down it does seem to get rather flatulent, yes.