New review posted on the Anthropology Resource Database: http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/cgi/showme.cgi?keycode=3909
Ok. Maybe it is a bit of a longform commercial for the Dunlop wah, but it is pretty cool none-the-less.
Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World from Joey Tosi on Vimeo.
The Seymour Duncan Tweak Fuzz is nice offering into the world of fuzz pedals. For those out there who don’t know much about the difference between a fuzz and a regular distortion pedal I point you to the following article, it covers most of the differences between different types of distortion. Heedless, despite some detractors, a good fuzz should sound noticeably different than the higher gain of a distortion pedal.
In many ways, because of the design of the fuzz, the sound will be thinner due to the boost in the bass that occurs in the fuzz circuit. A good fuzz sounds pretty primitive, but I have found that fuzz pedals can be difficult to match to your guitar and amp. It can be pretty difficult to match up if you are looking for a particular sound.
The Tweak Fuzz is one of the few pedals that I have found that delivers something usable. I think the feature that really sells this box to me and makes it better than a Big Muff or Boss Fuzz unit is the “tweak” control, a 6 position switch which gives you a way to change the voicing of the fuzz so you can go from mellow to angry, musical to thick. That is pretty useful. It is a simplification of the theory behind a pedal like the Electro Harmonix Graphic EQ Fuzz – by adding a greater degree of control to the user the pedal allows a sculptural experience. Many guitarists don’t want that experience though, they want something easy to dial in. The tweak control provides that by making a set of sliders or a dial of EQ a shifting switch.
It can be kind of a pain to load on a crowded pedal board with the placement of the input and output on the top of the unit. While it does take a DC adapter, I have been running it off a 9V battery with good results. The fuzz is not too noisy and doesn’t feedback on my rig much unless I add it to other distortion circuits (naturally). Nice metal construction as well.
Gibson put an excerpt from a book about the history of the electric guitar pickup on their website. This book looks like it might be fascinating to read.
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/the-history-of-the-pickup-326/
