EB's 'best fuzz' article

http://equipboard.com/posts/best-fuzz-pedal

no offense guys, but this article was loaded with misinformation just within the big muff section (which by the way is not really a fuzz, its a distortion just like it says right on it, but everyone seems confused)... I stopped reading so I didn't have a guitar-nerd-fit

this article is not up to the high standards set by your EQ pedal roundup (easily your best guitar article to date)... your distortion pedal article was a lot better

that said, in my pretty much failed attempt to review the Vox handwired range for you guys I have discovered I am not terribly good at composing concise reviews, so maybe my opinion isn't the best when it comes to shootouts and reviews, still, the fuzz article has a lot of extra info apart from the actual reviews and some of it is misleading at best even if the bottom line will be helpful to newbies

No offense taken! In fact, always love the feedback. Especially so if it's coming from someone whose opinion I respect (count yourself in that camp).

That's a bummer you didn't like it. You're right, the guides are generally written for beginners/intermediate players, and they are written by different people since we don't all have experience with every pedal/musical piece of gear of out there. Having saud that, if there is misinformation in the article we definitely need to correct it asap. Do you have time to send me your notes on it? You can email me (michael at equipboard) if it's easier.

Thanks, Jim!

I'll shoot you an email when I dive back into your articles. The biggest thing is that the big muff and the 2 muff-type boxes on the list are not really fuzzes in stock form... they are most definitely distortions deriving most of their grit from back-to-back pairs of diodes to ground to produce hard clipping between gain stages like a Boss DS1 (... while there is a little transistor clipping from the big muff, there are 2 pairs of diodes with very low clipping thresholds and you really aren't hearing the 'fuzz' component unless you run the gain at 1 or less with a low output pickup or you start clipping diodes out -pun intended- with your string cutters, but then the pedal is turning into a Colorsound Supa Tonebender ;-) I think this whole myth has been perpetuated by the Mudhoney record "Superfuzzbigmuff," but the superfuzz is actually a univox pedal that they sued in addition to the big muff, and the superfuzz is a bit more of a fuzz as the little bit of diode clipping is used for halfwave rectification to provide some octaving and a great deal of the distortion is from the high quality tranistors slamming eachother jailhouse style earlier in the circuit...

there's a lot of other myths in there though and I'll pick 'em out and email you.... your other pedal roundups are a lot better, though there's a mistake in the chorus article too... it doesn't really effect the conclusions, but getting it right could really help beginners to understand their rig better and make more informed decisions between the runner up pieces in the reviews