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Tell me a fuzz that would sound in the style of the 60s 70s which is now easy to buy

Can't go wrong with an Electro-Harmonix fuzz, especially the Big Muff Pi. The company even reissued the original versions so you can choose which flavor of distortion you want. TC Electronic also has some good vintage-styled fuzzes for cheap.

GEAR:
  • sE Electronics V7
  • Fender Vintage Series '57 Stratocaster
  • Blank slot

the big muff isn't really a fuzz, it an early diode clipping distortion like the dan armstrong blue clipper, jordan bosstone etc

just try the mxr BC108 fuzz.... its a tweaked silicon fuzzface....it gets the job done and its readily available and cheap. Think Dark Side of the Moon fuzztone

GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp

Maybe try the JHS: Legends of Fuzz series. All are $180, and the Bender, Crimson, and Smiley are all based on Fuzz pedals from that era ('72 Univox Super-Fuzz, '73 MKIII Tonebender, '69 Silicon Arbiter Fuzz)

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  • Vox AC15
  • Gibson ES 335 Studio Dirty Fingers Plus
  • Ernie Ball Power Slinky Guitar Strings (11-48)

my 3 favorite fuzzes.... although my mk3 was a burns buzzaround

GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp

Maybe try the JHS: Legends of Fuzz series. All are $180, and the Bender, Crimson, and Smiley are all based on Fuzz pedals from that era ('72 Univox Super-Fuzz, '73 MKIII Tonebender, '69 Silicon Arbiter Fuzz)

While they are all great clones, I wouldn’t call $180 a pedal cheap, haha.

the big muff isn't really a fuzz, it an early diode clipping distortion like the dan armstrong blue clipper, jordan bosstone etc

One could call it “fuzzstortion” ¯_(ツ)_/¯

GEAR:
  • sE Electronics V7
  • Fender Vintage Series '57 Stratocaster
  • Blank slot

if you snip the diodes out its fuzzing (and it'll have stupidly huge output unless you modify the output stage transistor to have a couple of resistors as a voltage divider to ground before the volume control) , but the 2 pairs of interstage clipping diodes obscure the fuzziness entirely.... so I guess fuzzstortion. EH themselves always called it a distortion/sustainer and that's very accurate. Imagine a couple fuzzfaces strapped together.... cloer to a traditional fuzz you have the jumbo or supa tonebender which is essentially a big muff with different transistors and only one set of clipping diodes so its like a distortion that then gets fuzzed by an extra transistor stage that's overloaded.... or its a fuzz that gets diode clipped at the end. I actually forget where the diodes are in the jumbo tonebender path, I'd have to look at the schematic. What really separate the muff from say a distortion plus is the use of discreet silicon transistors versus every distortion that came after that utilized IC opamps which were a new technology for audio in the 70s. Oddly, my old bassist's Dad wasinvolved in the development of the IC in the 60s and 70s. it was the only thing worth talking to the goon about. He has since tucked into his coffin for the big dirt nap....

edit: you're thinking diodes, hmmm, what about the foxx tone machine and univox superfuzz? those aren't distorting the same way, they form a rectifier to create octaving.... on the foxx they have their own footswitch so you can get just the fuzz and on the univox, welll they're always on, but there's an itnernal trimmer that can lower the threshold to them from the main fuzz circuit so they don't full wave rectify and just pass straight signal back to the output stage... at least when I had the pin and blue one it had this trmmmer and you could add or subtract octave based on what sound you needed. With a lot feeding it you could roll your neck pickup tone down and get purple haze tones but back the trimmer off and use your bridge straight and it made live at leeds fuzz...

GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp