do any bands you like use fuzz? do you want to cop their tones? listen out for fuzz in songs you like, and then research the gear. that's a good spot to start - with what you like.
At the risk of being pedantic: what exactly is fuzz? I ask because there are no real definitions of fuzz, distortion and overdrive. People throw these terms around as if there were good definitions, leading to the accurate categorization of different types of devices but, in fact, these are mostly marketing terms, or terms that have come to define different flavors of dirt sounds, from a player's POV. You can't really point to a circuit and say that it's a fuzz, a distortion, or an overdrive based on circuit topology. There is nothing in a circuit that absolutely makes it one or the other.
I am not really taking one approach, but actually trying out several things at once. I am asking questions here, watching Youtube videos and have been trying pedals as well. I have just had the pleasure of sampling 3 Basic Audio fuzz pedals in the Canadian tourbox. My learning isn's one direction at all. Alot of pedals are described as being a derivative of an earlier design and one thing I need to do is gain some insight into how these earlier designs sound. As other posters have noted, fuzz is a blurry concept and it has captured my interest, but I'm really a novice with this pedal type, unlike with overdrives. The more I know, the less mistakes I make in purchasing gear.
Hi Coda11,
