Which fuzz for JIMI?

[cary chilton]

I have the 69 100 watt plexi and a nice alder G&L strat... which fuzz(es)? Analogman??? KR??? Keeley?? Dallas??

[ohmygodtheykilledkenny]

If you're the hands on type, you could try building the axis clone off the fuzz central site?

I did, and have been very very happy with the result. I left the components they recommended off, and it's killer. Bright, but really good.

What particular fuzz tone are you hearing as a benchmark?

[cary chilton]

I just picked up an Roger Mayer Axis. Someone said it is the Spanish Castle Magic tone.
What Machine Gun? Purple Haze? Along The Watch Tower?

I have eyed the KR fuzzes, Keeley and Analogman, and THrobak stuff... any experience?

[Roe]

depending on which tone you want to cover you need the following:
stock Ge FF
mayer specs Ge FF
axis fuzz
stock Si FF

[SteadyEddie]

A fuzz is such a simple circuit, I would recommend you check out a few diy sites, order some parts and tweak away. The big differences come to whether you want a germanium fuzz (darker, woolier) or silicon (brighter, more aggressive)

[Cheech]

Analog Man NKT-275 and a BC-108 Based silicon fuzz

[swankmotee]

Honestly, the Dunlop JH-1 that George Tripps tweaked sounds really great and can get the Jimi thing dead on. Here is a clip of it in action for your consideration.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzNi4bycAlo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[THChrist]

what should i use for the "Love Or Confusion" static-like sound? or the crazy part @ Third Stone From The Sun? Tychobrahe Octavia or the Axis Fuzzface?

[Tone seaker]

Honestly, the Dunlop JH-1 that George Tripps tweaked sounds really great and can get the Jimi thing dead on. Here is a clip of it in action for your consideration.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzNi4bycAlo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Wow great tone. Are those amps unattenuated? What do you have the settings on?

[swankmotee]

Honestly, the Dunlop JH-1 that George Tripps tweaked sounds really great and can get the Jimi thing dead on. Here is a clip of it in action for your consideration.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzNi4bycAlo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Wow great tone. Are those amps unattenuated? What do you have the settings on?

The 73' 100wt is attenuated one notch on my old Marshall SE100 attenuator which in real world terms knocks it down about 2 steps on other attenuators and it's still really loud with the old G12H30's. I'm running all knobs on 10 except for bass which is off. Thanx for the kind compliment on the tone and I feel really lucky to have found such a good sounding fuzzface like this one!

[Doug H]

I have a red dot and white dot ntk275 sunfaces. I think Jimi's early sound had red dot trannys, but not as dark as the trannys in my red dot and the clips I hear seem top clean up better. My white dot get's closer IMO. I think I like my red dot more, it's a very special fuzz .

The thing is Hendrix reportedly didn't turn the fuzz dial to high, or so I've heard, so I'd think just about any balanced decent fuzzface should get you there, ge for early, si for later.

[swankmotee]

The thing is Hendrix reportedly didn't turn the fuzz dial to high, or so I've heard,

Where'd you hear that? He can be seen in many of the video's reaching down to max out the controls on the FF.

[Doug H]

I've read he used it more as a boost and didn't really like the fuzz it generated a whole lot, maybe that was just the early days? Also, I've read a lot of the mods he had his tech do were to get more output out of it, presumably to drive the front end hard.

[swankmotee]

I've read he used it more as a boost and didn't really like the fuzz it generated a whole lot, maybe that was just the early days? Also, I've read a lot of the mods he had his tech do were to get more output out of it, presumably to drive the front end hard.

Actually, he used the fuzzes "maxed" out to derive his distorted sound which was totally dependent on the fuzz and not the amps which were plexi's that were relatively clean sounding especially when playing a Fender with weak output single coil pups. If you really research the subject you will find that you've got it backwards in that Jimi's sound was WAY distorted when he ran the fuzz but he used his volume control's full range from clean to max dirt.

[Doug H]

I think it was his tech that qas quoted, he didn't ;like the sound of the fuzz faces much but used them as a boost. Maybe that changed when he found some good samples?