Modern day users of old skool fuzz, know any?

gshapzira · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:33 am

I'm giving a lecture on distortion and while I'm very knowledgable about 60's-70's guitar players and their use of fuzzboxes, I'm not into a lot of modern day music. I need some good examples of players today who use fuzzboxes. If you know which box they use, even better.

GrindCustoms · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:56 am

Matt Bellamy of Muse, uses a Fuzz Factory by Zvex. In fact it's pretty much the core of his distorted sound.

Other than that.... :roll:

jtn191 · **Joined:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 3:55 am **Posts:** 170

I did a presentation on pedals in my music/physics/electronics class

Black Keys are a no-brainer
as well as wilco, J Mascis/Dinosaur Jr, Smashing Pumpkins
also read "famous users" of these http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/ ... e-398998/1

guitarmageddon · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:39 am

Oz Noy- octafuzz

Jefe · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:51 am

I'm pretty sure Beck uses fuzz sometimes, possibly a FOXX tone machine?

hogharry · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:32 am

GrindCustoms wrote:

Matt Bellamy of Muse, uses a Fuzz Factory by Zvex. In fact it's pretty much the core of his distorted sound.

Other than that.... :roll:

That's right, he likes it so much that he has one built into some of his guitars! It creates some truly unusual sounds as well as "standard" fuzz tones. I built a clone for my son with a Muse theme: http://www.buildyourownclone.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=35419 it's great fun.

Synyster Gates of Avenged Sevenfold uses a Frantone "The Sweet" germanium fuzz.

Joe Bonamassa has a signature Fuzz Face.

gshapzira · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:35 am

Muse!!! Completley forgot about these guys. And the whole 90's alternative-grunge scene is a given...
Thanks! That's exactly the kind of bands i'm looking for: famous and fuzzy :lol:

I'm guessing that most of the attending my lecture will be 25 yrs old and younger so I need some recent examples.
Keep em coming guys.

ckyvick · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:46 am

Queens of the Stoneage Is pretty big among my 25 year old demographic

defaced · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:53 am

My ears tell me Mastodon use fuzz too. Never looked at their gear, but they have the fuzziest prog-metal tone I've ever heard.

ParanoidAndroid · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:52 am

jack white - big muff

Jefe · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:12 am

ckyvick wrote:

Queens of the Stoneage Is pretty big among my 25 year old demographic

I think Queens of the Stone Age's signature sound comes from a cranked Matchless amp... but with that said, they don't always have one signature sound, and are known to use a variety of gear, including fuzz sometimes. They do (somewhat incorrectly, IMO) get lumped in with the "stoner rock" genre, which tends to use lots of fuzz. The band Fu Manchu comes to mind - to me, every one of their songs sounds like they've got some kind of fuzz box on.

reddo · **Joined:** Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:40 pm **Posts:** 51

Both guitarists from moe. are using Analogman Sun Faces

saxoftenest · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:47 pm

There's a lot of fuzz going on with those damn "hipsters". :lol:

For example:

Silversun Pickups - pretty sure it's a Muff of some variation
M83 - zvex fuzz factory
Black Angels - muff and fuzz factory
Kurt Vile - EH graphic fuzz, muff

Tooly · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:53 pm

City and Colour guy uses a crazy ass splatty fuzz on the track fragile bird. it could be a misbiased newer fuzz or something old and ridiculous :?:

powerpopguy · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:32 pm

saxoftenest wrote:

There's a lot of fuzz going on with those damn "hipsters". :lol:

For example:
Silversun Pickups - pretty sure it's a Muff of some variation

or even more to the point: Silversun Pickups--> whatever Smashing Pumpkins used :lol:

don't get me wrong, I like them quite a bit.. I wonder what kind of pickups they use though :wink:

I think GuitarGeek.com's Guitar Rig Database would be a good way to do just this kind of research:
http://www.guitargeek.com/category/guitar_rigs/

It's an old and sluggish website held together with duct tape, so good luck with that, but I've always loved the concept of this site.

Here's a fun example:
Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead - 1997 rig:

DuctTapeRiot · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:55 am

If you can find it, check out a documentary called Fuzz (everyone should do this BTW, awesome doc) which is all about the modern "Boutique" scene. It covers a LOT of stuff and has a lot of different musicians and bands in it. For your lecture, Wolf Mother is in it as well as, Billy Gibbons, Dweezil Zappa, J Mascus from Dinosor Jr. Josh Homme's guitar teck talks about how they used a ZVex (Cant remember if it is a SHO or Fuzz Factory?) for one of the QOTSA albums. The crazy bassist from Beck is on there.

Lots of interesting builders too, ZVex, AnalogueMan, Lots of stuff with the Death by Audio guys. Lots of crazypants moments too and some real characters. Also a ton of demos of some really old vintage fuzzes. The documentarian is the luckiest f#$ker ever.

I can't really check it out as I am at work but this link is supposed to be the full thing on Youtube.
http://www.agileguitarforum.com/showthread.php?tid=13653

Tooly · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:04 pm

DuctTapeRiot wrote:

If you can find it, check out a documentary called Fuzz (everyone should do this BTW, awesome doc) which is all about the modern "Boutique" scene. It covers a LOT of stuff and has a lot of different musicians and bands in it. For your lecture, Wolf Mother is in it as well as, Billy Gibbons, Dweezil Zappa, J Mascus from Dinosor Jr. Josh Homme's guitar teck talks about how they used a ZVex (Cant remember if it is a SHO or Fuzz Factory?) for one of the QOTSA albums. The crazy bassist from Beck is on there.

Lots of interesting builders too, ZVex, AnalogueMan, Lots of stuff with the Death by Audio guys. Lots of crazypants moments too and some real characters. Also a ton of demos of some really old vintage fuzzes. The documentarian is the luckiest f#$ker ever.

I can't really check it out as I am at work but this link is supposed to be the full thing on Youtube.
http://www.agileguitarforum.com/showthread.php?tid=13653

killer movie for sure, the death by audio guys were a howl. and that tech guy was talking about a SHO from the queens album, said the "tranny was duct taped in place, like the builder knew it was gonna blow" lots of super funny moments in there, and that mike guy from EH, he seenms like a dirty bird kinda, hes got all ladies working for him lol, just weird. or that music shop owner guy, forget his name, but i laughed when he was saying all musicians are junkies, they will sell everything, and if you wanna make your shit worth more, just ebay bid it to the sky lol what a doosh

and yeah, whoever got to demo all those old fuzzes was a lucky fecker

DuctTapeRiot · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:18 pm

I've watched it 3 times now, gonna watch it again tonight after talking about it.

DuctTapeRiot · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:28 pm

And ya, there is some great caracters in there. The crazy guy from BJFE, woah! The EH guy has that "creepy old guy who did one too many hits of acid and stood beside the speaker stack for a few minutes too long" thing going on. The music store guy was hilarious, but too schmarmy or smug for my liking. Donner came off as a bit of a D-Bag as well. The Death By Audio guys were my fav, as well as AnalogMan and Billy Gibbons and the footage from that back room at NAAM where Bjorn was terrorizing that little girl.

Jefe · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:27 pm

I keep forgetting about that Fuzz movie.. Never seen it, i'll have to check it out. I think I saw it available on netflix.

radioegg · **Joined:** Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:02 pm **Posts:** 275

Black Crowes? I played the Virtue and Vice riff the other day and couldn't get close without fuzz.

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