Question:
I am looking to add a fuzz pedal to my board. My wife hasa said that she would like me to pick out a nice pedal for Xmas since she still haden't figured out what she wanted to get me. I have narrowed it down to either A Keeley Fuzz Head or an AnalogMan Sun Face. I have a good classic tone pedalboard with tubes screamers and big muffs. Now I am putting a more modern tone board together. The fuzz will complete this board. Another thing to consider with the Sun Face would be Ge VS Si. What do you all think? Thanks!
Aaron
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I don't know anything about the pedals, but I knw this should be in effects forum. BUt since you are new, you probably won't get chewed up.
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I personally own a fuzz head, I tried the sun face, but did not like the tone as much. The fuzz head rocks though, it is sooooo responsive to your picking and volume it is incredible, it can go all the way from just a slightly overdriven tone to screaming overdrive and the GE/Si switch is very useful
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I have the Sun face fuzz. It's modeled after the arbiter fuzz face and uses germanium transistors. What I like about this pedal is that he's making the most authentic fuzz circuit you can buy. What I mean by that is his pedal doesn't have a DC jack (only runs by batteries) and doesn't even have an LED. He says that this affects the tone of the fuzz.
Also, it's VERY sensitive to pedals in front of it and the gear that you own. This pedal can sound very nasty if you have other non-true bypass pedals in front of it or if you have another pedal turned on in front of it. This pedal has to be the first pedal "on" in the signal chain. You should also e-mail analogman to see if your rig will be good enough to produce a good sound out of this pedal...Not to sound arrogant, but if you have a mediocre rig you probably will not get a good sound out of this pedal.
That being said, it can easily do sounds from Cream and Jimi. I think it soudns awesome...also very sensitive to the volume pedal and oodles of transparency.
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The fuzz head also sounds AWESOME if you want 'a little more' when you push it with like a compressor (my keeley comp, for instance) it just is amazing. it runs behind the Dunlop Wah and Comp and sounds fine. (the wah is still stock, and not truebypass, but is a good, clean sounding wah)
The internal tone and 'gain range' ajustments are also great and easy to find, a very good pedal, I would say that you should try them if you can...
what kind of amp do you have? If not tube, you should probably upgrade that first.