I play into a Badger 30 with the gain set to be somewhere in between breaking up and overdriven. I use the Koko Boost to kick things up a gear and love this tone. I've always played OD or Distortion pedals, but fancied something different.
I have the Wampler Velvet fuzz on my board at the moment, and really like its versatility. I tend to use this on the Distortion setting rather than full on Fuzz since that latter is just too much mush to be usable with my amp settings.
I also have the Suhr Rufus, but this only works really with a clean channel.
So the question is, if I want Fuzz like 'Are you gonna go my way' for example, is there a pedal out there than can add Fuzz gain on top of a driven amp without it becoming unusable, or are the two concepts incompatible?
I've tried with both the Velvet and Rufus with their gain turned down, but to no avail. They're both keepers, but just wondering if there's a flavour of fuzz out there that I'm not aware of.
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hmmm...i've always found that with fuzz going into driven amp...i take he fuzz right down and increase the volume right up...and that usually does a great job adding saturation and fuzz to the drive sound, without oversaturation and making the tone a complete mess.
then again what i think is a good tone, may already be too muddy for your taste
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The rufus was very sputtery, but i though the velvet fuzz was more...well, velvetty...but having watched a demo of the velvet fuzz, i can see that was built for a clean amp.
so depending on taste...i would say the best fuzz i have every played is the Black Arts Pharaoh...works amazingly well for clean or dirty amps...here's a "friendly" demo by PGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp5N4-YVhoI
It does have 'normal' sounds as well as the mad squealing unstable ones too.
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A lot of people that use clean headroom amps will stack a Fuzz into a mild OD. This is doing what you're doing backwards- ie breaking the amp up then running a fuzz.
One thing I've learned is about sweet spots in pedals, which is rarely anywhere after 60% gain on the dial. So I'm going suggest that yes, it's very do-able but it's about finding the pedal and sweet spot that works. My P1 is very powerful, and the sweet spot is about 50% on gain when stacking into an EQing OD.
I agree re cranking volume on the pedal and then gently dialing in the gain and treble. That would be your route I reckon.
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