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Tumble and Drive - the Rougue Dumble
The Runoffgroove Tumble Drive (Umble) For those of you who are following this blog and my recent posts, it is probably clear that, although our main point of concern is the magical sounds of fuzz...
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The Pink Face
The Pink Face Throughout the history of fuzz pedals, fuzz guitarists and psychedelic fuzzy solos, there is no fuzz which has received greater attention than the legendary Fuzz Face. Originally produced...
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The Flying Rat
The 60's and early 70's were all about driving tube amps into overdrive heaven and on the way use fuzz and treble boosters to get the job done. Most Fuzz stompboxes were, in fact, so effective that...
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Bending your Tone for Page
The Led Bender mkII The UK fuzz mania began in 1965 probably after the Rolling Stones recorded the 3 fuzz notes that changed the history of rock'n roll: the opening notes for their hit "Satisfaction"....
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Driving Down Da Bass
The Caribass - ROG Flipster This time we are off and away from the world of guitar and into the bass we dive deep. Runoffgroove's (ROG) Flipster was designed to emulate the tone and drive of the famous...
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Don't stomp me now - The Mojo Stomp porch box
The Mojo Stomp Somewhat off the main path or my FuzzQuest, here's something a bit different. The never ending quest for a perfect fuzz tone is not my only goal in terms of tone and guitar sound....
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A Palette of Tweeds - ROG's Azabache
Well, I'm really excited about posting today because I think one of my missions throughout this quest is over. A large part of my FuzzQuest has been devoted not to fuzz pedals but to amps or amp...
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Fuzz Testosteron
The Mastotron Clone. Even the LED is pink Well, here's a quick one. I was asked by a friend to build a Mastotron Fuzz clone which would be just like the real ZVEX but in a PINK enclosure. The main...
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So ya thought ya might like to...be a DIY dude?
Basic DIY parts - Boards, resistors, capacitors, semiconductors and wires Today I figured I'd do something a little different. Instead of bragging about another Fuzz I built and sharing my thoughts, I...
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A Nu Tone clone for the old Mu-Tron III
The Mu-Tron III clone - NU-TONE III For a very long time I have been interested, mainly, in pedals which gave me sweet fuzz and overdrive crunchy sounds. This is because I use them. It seems pointless...
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Thy Last Screamer
Landgraff's Tube Screamer Clone Well, this was about to happen sooner or later. Once I started this blog I knew that one day I will build a Tube Screamer clone or something like it. However, I never,...
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Ginger Bread Bass. Hot from the oven
It has has been a while since I revamped my bass sound palette. I have been using bass fuzzes, distortions and filters of all kinds and I was pretty satisfied. I love the RAT clone on bass giving me...
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The Real Muff Pie
The Big Muff Pi clone OK, you guys, we are very close to getting FuzzQuest blog on a climax this time. If I had to choose 3 fuzz pedals to achieve the widest spectrum of fuzz sounds I would say that...
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Silicon Tone Bender mkII: Revisited
The Led Bender This is the first time I am revisiting a pedal and rebuilding it all over again. As you probably already know, the Tone Bender is one of the most elusive and tricky fuzz pedals around....
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Wow....I just have to share this video as this guy is on a true fuzz quest for 60s Germanium mayham. Take 12 pedals and play the same chain and same riffs, chords, whatever so that you can actually...
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The Rites of Fuzz - The Ritefuzz: revisited and enhanced
The Green Spirit FuzzRite clone Ever since I started this blog I had this sound in my mind which I knew I just have to understand. I was always attracted to those elusive grainy buzz stutters of the...
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The Peachy Fuzz
The Peach Fuzz clone This one is a little off my main path (or the king's highway) towards the ultimate fuzz. The PeachFuzz is one of those new boutique, over-the-top fuzz boxes which you see by the...
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Fuzzway '67: Revisited
Well it has been a long time since I last revisited the Original 1966 Arbiter PNP Germanium based Fuzz Face. I posted here a while back about my experience with the Fulltone '69 using AC128 trannies...
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King Watt - The HiWatt grinder king
The WIIO clone - KING WATT When the fuzz era began in the early sixties most players hooked up their fuzz pedals to the amps which were available at the time. The best names on the market were Fender,...
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Britannia - The new British Channel by Runoffgroove
In 2004 the Runoffgroove team released their famous "English Channel" pedal version for the VOX AC30 Top Boost amplifier. Their acclaimed JFET take on the tube overdrive sound was a big part of the...
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