Designed in 1966 by Arbiter Electronics in London, the Fuzz Face is supposedly the first pedal to use the distinctive DPDT switch that has become the de-facto standard for stompboxes; though it’s ...

Wampler Pedals has unveiled a new fuzz pedal for players who are tired of clones, who will entertain the idea of summoning some gated, Velcro-ripping magick from their pedalboard, but at the same time ...

MXR has unveiled the Hybrid Fuzz, which combines two classic Fuzz Face circuits in one pedal. Fuzz Faces come in many varieties, but the biggest differentiator is which transistor crops up on the ...

Weekly Hack a Day feature [Dino] is back again, this time with his very own guitar pedal. It’s modeled on a three-transistor Fuzz Face clone and sounds very good in our humble opinion. Fuzz pedals ...

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, ...

The sound of fuzz is the sound of rock. Every generation, a new wave of players discover and redefine this classic effect. Whether you're inspired by the Stones, Hendrix, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, The ...

Rock in the new year with a guitar pedal you built yourself. [Doug Kovach] took the time to share his project with us in the video after the break. He starts with a bit of history of the artists that ...