On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:56:25 +0100 Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On 17-12-2021 17:49, Will Godfrey wrote: >> On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:41:17 +0100 >> Hermann Meyer <brummer-@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> I've just push my latest work to github, It's a pure, nasty growling >>> bass fuzz pedal, with bold out-front presence, and cutting articulation. >>> It's for those who love those good old transistor based fuzz pedals. >>> https://github.com/brummer10/Rumor <https://github.com/brummer10/Rumor> > >Nice, going to check it out! Most other Fuzz plugins sound rather tame, >hopefully this one delivers the goods ;) > >>> >>> rooowwwaaa a a a a a a a >> >> Oh, a modern one then :P >> >> @folderol remembers building one with resistor fed germanium diodes :@) > >The first fuzzes at the beginning of the 1960's had no clipping diodes, >only transistors. It was around 1969 that the first fuzzes with clipping >diodes appeared, such as the EHX Big Muff and Univox Super Fuzz. For an >excellent overview see >http://www.kitrae.net/music/Fuzz_Big_Muff_Timeline.html. > >Jeremy Thanks for the link Jeremy. It brought back memories (sharpened them up somewhat too!) In the late 1960s I built a handful for friends (so got paid peanuts) and the very last one was in the 1970s for a guy who always complained that the ones he'd tried weren't 'bright' enough - so somewhat tongue in cheek I made one that was basically an overdriven 741 op-amp. He loved it! -- Will J Godfrey https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/ http://yoshimi.github.io Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
