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Ever since those first new notes in Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones, players have been on the hunt for the best fuzz pedals to recreate that brash, raspy, horn-like guitar tone. It tends to be more ...

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Some of the most recognizable guitar sounds in rock music were created with the fuzz pedal. The predecessor of distortion and overdrive pedals, it alters your guitar’s sound wave into a square wave, ...

In a previous entry into this “wondrous”, if not “ponderous” blogspace, I alluded to the fact that an industrious EE/designer could make a nice farthing or two just creating distortion pedals for ...