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Fuzz pedal
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Technology
Fuzz pedal · During a recording by Marty Robbins in Nashville, a channel of the mixing desk broke. The guitar solo in Don't Worry, a hit in 1961, therefore sounded buzzing and distorted, and the public loved it. The sound engineer Glenn Snoddy and Revis Hobbs built a circuit that created that effect on purpose. From 1962, Gibson sold it as the Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone, one of the first effects pedals. From then on, any guitarist could choose between clean and dirty with a single footswitch. Fuzz became the sound of garage rock, psychedelia and later grunge.
Listening
Listening tip. Compare the fuzz sound with an ordinary amplified guitar: does it buzz, does it crackle, does it sound like a horn?
Don't Worry · Marty Robbins, 1961
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction · The Rolling Stones, 1965
Cherub Rock · The Smashing Pumpkins, 1993
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