“Be ba” Sound in Early Fuzz Ads (Roland BeeBaa & Marshall Supa Fuzz)

On page 9 of the October 1969 issue of Beat Instrumental, the following is printed in an ad for the Marshall SupaFuzz:

Be-be-doo

Be-be-be-ba

BOO!

Who makes that sound?

Is that you!

You plus the Marshall SupaFuzz 1975 pedal.

Then in 1972, Roland released the BeeBaa, which is an onomatopoeic name.

Do you think fuzzes really sound like that? If not, why do you think these two fuzzes were sold with that description?

for starters, the original supafuzz is a tonebender professional mkII with a snubber cap to tame the spitty treble, unsure if they revised the circuit at any point, I've only seen 1 version... 3 transistors and a handful of caps and resistors

the beebaa is quite a bit different; its 4 transistors, the last stage features a complimentary pair in push pull whereas a tonebender is 3 transistors single ended, it features back to back diodes to ground before the output, it also has a footswitchable tone shift and a bunch of other stuff, its infinitely more complex while still following the classic 3 stage fz1 bones in a certain way.

I think marketing guys are nuts, probably doubly so in Japan. Product names and ad copy don't need to make sense and back in the day seldom tried to. There's an old superlead ad where marshall bills it as the world's loudest distortion free amplifier. That was patently untrue on every level and guys were buying them for the frickin distortion at full power anyway. The marketing guy just said some shit he heard... the ad didn't sell any plexis, they sold themselves because they're a loud amp with tight bass and a very complex overdrive when pushed into saturation.