{"id":534,"date":"2014-08-18T13:06:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T18:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2014-08-18T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T20:47:17","slug":"fuzz-guitarsystems-fuzztool-junior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Fuzz &#8211; GuitarSystems Fuzztool Junior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U_x079v-jCQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not sure when it all started, but some time this year\u00c2\u00a0I started to be really drawn to the sound of fuzz. I&#8217;ve spent a good many years tinkering around with overdrive and distortion boxes and have pretty much made up my mind about what it is that I like. I always thought fuzz just wasn&#8217;t for me&#8230;that it was merely an extension of the &#8220;overdriven sound&#8221; spectrum that only resided on the crazy end of things. Then I came across this video and listened to Sam Vilo noodle around very expressively on nothing\u00c2\u00a0<em>but<\/em> a fuzz pedal. It didn&#8217;t blow my mind to pieces, but it opened up my ears to what a fuzz pedal was capable of achieving. And as time progressed I\u00c2\u00a0slowly started to be able to distinguish what was fuzz and what was overdrive\/distortion from my own music library. It was kind of a neat realization.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0077.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0077.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured above\u00c2\u00a0is one of my newest acquisitions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guitarsystems.nl\/\">Guitarsystems<\/a>&#8216; <a title=\"Fuzztool Juior\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guitarsystems.nl\/fuzztool-junior\/4579437206\">Fuzztool Junior.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0I had heard of this company before and was initially intrigued by their line of stomp boxes simply because of their aesthetic design;\u00c2\u00a0it&#8217;s quite beautiful. You just wanna stomp on that big button! Over the months I&#8217;ve heard variations of what constitutes as &#8220;fuzz.&#8221; Sometimes it was smooth. Sometimes it was harsh. Sometimes it sounded weird\u00c2\u00a0(but you could imagine how it might sound good in certain situations). Sometimes it just sounded like garbage!\u00c2\u00a0With what I&#8217;ve heard as a reference, I would say that the Fuzztool Jr. has more of a smoother character, but still more extreme than any other dirt pedal that I&#8217;ve owned.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with this thrown into the mix, I had to give my Maxon ROD 881 the boot. Previous, it had served as my base overdrive tone, while my Amp Eleven boosted it into higher gain and saturation. But I always liked the Amp Eleven&#8217;s sound a bit more, as it seemed more transparent and articulate to me, while still being able to get pretty saturated (although not as much). The Maxon, however, had a boost that I found to \u00c2\u00a0be quite usable when I need certain lines to cut through the mix. Well, with the Maxon gone, I needed something else to do this job.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0078.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0078.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I got this. A pretty basic, no-frills boost pedal. So far, it&#8217;s doing what I need it to do and I&#8217;m happy. The Maxon was a larger pedal, so in its absence I was able to fit both this and the new Fuzztool Junior onto the board. The image below is the new drive section of my board.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0073.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0073.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still in the learning stages of figuring out where it comes to play in a musical context, but I feel like I should get a chance to kick this on in a song pretty soon. Playing at home is still pretty fun, though. It&#8217;s nice to come across a piece of gear that inspires you to play more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure when it all started, but some time this year\u00c2\u00a0I started to be really drawn to the sound of fuzz. I&#8217;ve spent a good many years tinkering around with overdrive and distortion boxes and have pretty much made up my mind about what it is that I like. I always thought fuzz just wasn&#8217;t for me&#8230;that it was merely an extension of the &#8220;overdriven sound&#8221; spectrum that only resided on the crazy end of things. Then I came across this video and listened to Sam Vilo noodle around very expressively on nothing\u00c2\u00a0but a fuzz pedal. 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