Reconsider Baby

Post by Bg » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:06 pm

Just a quick one, testing out the Fuzzie Bro FB-171

TMG 03 · Post by **TMG 03** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:18 pm

Nice slowhand.

Thats a sweet pedal.

DarcyPerry · Post by **DarcyPerry** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:45 pm

Great singing. The exactness of your guitar work I am impressed by too. Great singing.

Great singing. Hmmm. Did I say that already?

Post by Bg » Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:49 pm

cheers guys, yeah its a great pedal - gave it the required dirtiness even through a POD

Took to practice tonight and I've decided I need some hendrix in my arsenal - it just screams purple haze at me!

and you really liked the singing? I'm trying to find my own voice (but I'm stuck with the one I've got)

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:15 pm

Mate - you've been working on the singing, haven't you? Really good stuff. Cool guitar tone too - very good ad for the Fuzzie Bro - you should charge him for that

bobiron · Post by **bobiron** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:15 am

Nice track there BG. What is a Fuzzy Bro FT-171? I googled this and got nothing. Your singing remained me of SRV.

Post by Bg » Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:36 am

Its the Bluesgeek signature series pedal, made by mr Fuzziebro. It has gain, volume, tone and a bias pot for the germanium transistor - I'll leave it to Prof. Black to explain what that's for

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:00 am

germanium transistors are basically leftover flower power girls who used to be boys, if you know what I mean. Distinguished by scraggy long hair, sandals, paisley shirts and high voices... and a tendency to remember fondly Hendrix and the Mamas and Papas while they protest about 'th' Man'.

Post by **Capt. Black** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:08 am

Really nice vocals and playing BG. Nice song too. And of course, damn fine sounding pedal.

The bias pot is there to compensate for any untoward tendancies one might exhibit in your playing/opinions/personality/lifestyles choices.

tsuken wrote:... very good ad for the Fuzzie Bro - you should charge him for that...

.... or pay him.

Gelato · Post by **Gelato** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:40 am

Another big thumbs up on the vocals and guitar work BG, sounding great

Simonski · Post by **Simonski** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:06 am

its very gary mooreish vocal i like it

what guitar did you use?

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:40 am

Maaaattte!!

That's great stuff, BG.

Maybe I'll have to try to kill kenny too, if that's what it does for ya!!

rocklander · Post by **rocklander** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:06 am

Simonski wrote:its very gary mooreish vocal i like it what guitar did you use?

yup.. I could hear the gary in there too.. nicely suiting the song too.. good stuff... course, you could have used some duct tape in there somewhere..

bobiron · Post by **bobiron** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:50 pm

bluesgeek wrote:Its the Bluesgeek signature series pedal, made by mr Fuzziebro. It has gain, volume, tone and a bias pot for the germanium transistor - I'll leave it to Prof. Black to explain what that's for

Thanks that clears up the fuzzieness I had around this pedal. Is the circuit based on the fuzz face?

Post by **Capt. Black** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:34 pm

bobiron wrote:
bluesgeek wrote:Its the Bluesgeek signature series pedal, made by mr Fuzziebro. It has gain, volume, tone and a bias pot for the germanium transistor - I'll leave it to Prof. Black to explain what that's for
Thanks that clears up the fuzzieness I had around this pedal. Is the circuit based on the fuzz face?

I think it's a FuzzieBro original. He often makes reference to known classics to give people an idea of what to expect but more often than not the pedals are not the same at all. Now and then he'll do a clone for the hell of it and he'll say so. Sometimes they'll be based on a classic circuit with some interesting variations on the theme. But have a talk to Paul/FuzzieBro and you'll see he's more interested in developing his own pedal designs than simply knocking out clones.
The main thing is Paul uses NOS components wherever possible because he likes the sound characteristics of them. He's fully into blues guitar a la Hendrix et al and he's crazy for fuzzzzzzzzzzz. Ergo, the pedals will, by nature, sound very vintage.