mooche's Reviews

Essential G&L model

One pickup, one volume, and no tone control so my expectations were modest. WRONG!! This thing sounds outstanding! Definitely not for all music types but for grunge and all types of hard rock, it's outstanding. Of course it's a given that you can play Alice in Chains and be blown away. I mean you can sound exactly like every AIC album. Paired with the JC Wah pedal, you can sound EXACTLY like Dirt and Facelift. But... playing ANY kind of heavy medal is where it really shines. And the Khaler tremolo blows Floyd Rose out of the water. I bend this thing as far as it goes in both directions and it never touches the neck or comes out of tune. Never broke one string. I was going to swap pickup for a SD JB but never felt the need once I started playing. It sounds outstanding as it is and I didn't want to change a thing. No tone knob needed and if it had one, I would have it set to get exactly the tone it has out of the box. This guitar won't blow anyone away at a blues jam, but you won't get ignored either. But for heavy songs, this guitar is way more versatile than it looks

To Nirvana fans

Kurt Cobain Road Worn Jaguar is one of the coolest and most authentic signature guitars ever made. Compared to the regular MIM Kurt Jaguar, the Road Worn version just feels alive. The finish has that perfectly aged, broken-in look and feel, like it’s been on tour since the ‘90s, without losing any playability.

The neck is super smooth, the relic work on the hardware and body gives it a genuine vintage vibe, and the DiMarzio pickups sound amazing.

Fender really nailed the blend of grunge attitude and high-end craftsmanship here. This is easily one of the best and most unique signature models Fender produced.

An Unique Special

Great tone from the P-90s. I love the throwback style of the slab mahogany body with no pickguard combined with the 21st century G -force tuners ! Regarding the robo tuners, they work fine,just push a button and bang you're tuned up! It's even kinda fun to watch it go to work ! If you decide you don't like 'em, they're easy to swap out! The wide neck feels great in my hand and plays like a dream! I think these guitars are a fine tribute to Les on what would have been his 100th birthday

British boutique

It sounds wonderful, I love the neck (though on the thinner side generally), all quality components, and the design is on the well-worn side. They are beautiful guitars, made in Cambridge. They use Mojo pickups as well. P90 size goldfoil in the neck, Mojotron in the bridge, and they are predictably brilliant.

Well made

Very impressed with the quality of this guitar. Sturdy and very well-made. Besides the models I really like how the pickups sound. I prefer the pickups for distortion but models for the clean, namely, the 12 string model is amazing. Very fun to record with. The possibilities are endless. The turning options I would buy this guitar for alone.

Musical Bass Overdrive

This thing has a ton of bass frequency output, and a great, almost synthy quality to it (and not in a cheap-sounding way), which lends itself well to bass & downtuned guitar. Definitely stands on its own, but also plays well with other drives, preferably after it.

I LOVE IT

The Fuzzolo is a varient of the Woolly Mammoth circuit but with a few differences…

First of all, the sound of the Woolly Mammoth circuit is a big and sizzly fuzz tone that with the use of the Pulse Width control can be made to be gated, super squishy and all round splattery and blowing up! The Fuzzolo has these sounds in spades too but without the tone or gain control of the Woolly Mammoth!

I’ve had two Woolly Mammoth’s and sold both of them as I could never get them to work well in a mix EQ wise. I think think was due to the tone section of the circuit scoopping out some of the mids of the pedal. This can sound great at home and can be adjusted when recording but in a mix with other guitars and/or bass it can be problematic! Also the Mammoth was dinstincly quieter than some other pedals… I like my fuzz pedals to have a huge volume boost on tap so that I can have a much bigger gap between clean/fuzz and also to distort the amp some more!

HOWEVER! With the Fuzzolo, the tone circuit has been removed completely from the circuit which not only allows a much stronger mid presence but also allows the pedal to be a LOT louder! Also, I had a look inside the pedal and I found a BS 170 transistor which is from the Super Hard On circuit. I emailed Zvex to ask about it and he told me that it’s a secret! This probabaly plays a bigger part in why this pedal is so much louder and brighter than the Mammoth before it.

This pedal is also TINY. When I say tiny, I mean TINY. I absolutely love it!

Another thing worth mentioning is that the Fuzzolo has a small jumper inside that can connect a series resistance on the input to the pedal. I tend to put a variable resistor into my fuzz pedals (the finicky ones) to solve the issue of using a buffered pedal behind them and this jumper solves it perfectly for me! Meaning that I didn’t have to do anything to the pedal for it to be perfect!

Anyone thinking that it’s just a Woolly Mammoth but with less controls is right BUT it also has some massive benefits to it that make it perfect for me. That being the massive volume, great mids and internal series resistance jumper! What a boss fuzz!!

I’ve been setting with the Pulse Width control in about the middle where the gate just about kick in and it has an ENORMOUS low end and a huge splattering fuzz tone. Really sticky highs with my Fender Twin and an absolute tremendous low end. It’s worth noting that the low end on this pedal is HUGE, it can completely overpower the pre-amp (and power amp or speakers!) of your amp and can create a ‘blowing up’ fuzz tone effect. Personally I LOVE that sound but for some it can be off putting. In that case, just turn the bass down on your amp. (And if you can make sure you’re using some heavy duty speakers!).

In summary, a very very TINY but perfectly sculpted fuzz with some really really great improvements on a somewhat flawed design (to me at least!). I couldn’t have asked for a better improvement on the Woolly Mammoth design and the fact it’s so small is just plain CUTE.

Awesome EQ and unique grit in one

I initially bought a Stone Deaf Trashy Blonde a few years ago. While I loved the EQ section of it wherever I could use it, I wasn't a fan of the dirty side. It was too much of a standard OD sound for me, and that pedal is very large so I never wanted to put it on my board even though I thought the EQ was worth the price of admission. When SD released the PDF-2 it added a gain control I wanted on the 1, and the box is smaller. After finally getting it in very pleased. The distortion is definitely an expansion of what the original was capable of, and it gets to the fuzzy distortion area that a lot of classic pedals do very well with that amazing EQ. The volume level is fixed, and it's a boost, even for my guitars with actives. I haven't read the manual or asked the company of there is a mini trimmer inside to adjust that, but I don't mind. I generally want a bit of an increase in volume when turning it on. On top of that, it seems to somehow compensate for perceived volume loss/boost with even extreme EQ cuts/boosts. Overall, I'm very happy and expect it to become a staple as a dirt box on its own, or kicking the front end of a dirty amp. I forgot to mention the hairy distortion blended with amp dirt sounds awesome. So far I've tried it with a Mesa Trem-O-Verb, JCM800, a mini Bassman with a master volume based thing and Supro based amp

Mid 60's Gibson Melody Maker

Totally satisfied with this beauty. It is a 1964 but has the specs of the 65, just not in cherry. I have read lots of negatives when it comes to the pick-up, I was even ready to create another pick guard with a P-90 or stacked HB, however this thing rocks. I play it through my AC15 and the sound is amazing. It has a real sweet clean sound and it explodes when I turn on the Tube Screamer. To know that this "budget student" model was crafted by the same people who make the high end Gibson's we all lust for, makes it even better when it is played. Everyone should play one of these if you get a chance.

Classic Great Bass

So much has been written about this bass that I probably can’t add much. What distinguishes it the most are: 1. the ‘mudbucker’ pickup, which gives off bass that shakes the earth; 2. The short scale and an incredibly narrow neck make this so easy to play, you can fly. I also put LaBella flatwound lights on it and it plays like a dream. One other thing - this is one of the few instruments from the 60’s, when they really built them well, that a musician can still afford. Any other kind of guitar from that period costs a fortune. It’s a bargain; especially if you’re looking for a player’s guitar rather than a pristine ‘collector’ guitar.

Studio Mainstay

At my recording studio there was already a MIM J-Bass and a Stingray 5, so when I pushed my colleagues to go for a vintage short-scale they were skeptical, to say the least. Even in the short time this 78 Musicmaster has been living in the space, it's already showed up on the session files from a dozen artists. A great investment and if I leave this studio it'll take a monumental display of will to not walk off with the thing.

Great guitar, heavy sounds from a Tele

If you're into Tele's like me this is the perfect "get heavy" sort of guitar. I love the feel and neck profile of a Tele. Being the signature of a great guitar player like John 5 is just a bonus. I'm one complaint is that the two knobs are different volumes for the individual pickups. This allows for doing some Les Paul type kill switch stuff, but it means I cannot change the tone of the guitar at all. I'd like to be able to roll off the high end without having to change an EQ setting on an amp/pedal.

The Best Squire that Fender Has Designed

The 2011 Jazzmaster is stunning. I have the " Glossy-flat-Butterscotch" (with Duncan P90s, and with no visble wood grain.) I love it. Hardtail and the smoothest frets. The bridge on the 2011 model is AWESOME. Its a modern take on a classic design..The frets are to die for in such an inexpensive instrument. Its not heavy, plays like butter, and feels great and feels expensive. I cant tell the difference in the quality between this Squire and any of my American guitars. The Seymour Duncan pickups are some of my favorite Duncan pickups without a second thought. They scream, and can play anything from country to blues, and Classic Rock to Swedish Doom and Gloom. Just get one!