the first person to degoop (if goop is present), trace and reverse gets applause.
I like his descriptions
Fuzzes can be a powerful thing in the right hands....BUT
....they are one trick ponies, can't do even a bad impersonation of an overdrive or clean boost
...they have major interaction issues with other effects like wah and modualtion (vibes, etc)
...they all have a sloppy, farty low-end.
....they have tons of bass/tons of highs but can't cut through a mix to save their lives...there are absolutely no Mids if you want them.
...only Fuzzface-type pedals Truly clean up when you turn down the guitar's volume knob, and even those get unuseable bright for anyone not using a brown old Marshall 4-input.
...they sound like ass through a bright Fender-atyle amp
Then along came a little thing called Catalyst
A tiny little Distortion Generator that:
has NONE of the drawbacks listed above
is a GREAT FUZZ/Distortion (with toggle switch set to "Flame" position)
is a Phenomenal clean-boost, and overdrive as well (with toggle switch set to "Spark" setting)
has something I came up with called Max-end-all 2 Band EQ: an excellent hi-cut with a great Bass control having the proprietary ability to bring in incredible sounding midrange when the pot reaches around 3 o'clock on its rotation.
can be so raw yet can be so refined, and so musically useable that it defies description and musical boundries..don't be confused when you see this on Country rigs and Top 40 pedalboards..sometimes you get lucky and develop something truly unique.
how dare he use that tone when talking about my precious fuzz! appalling! sacreligious! sacre bleu!
now i'm REALLY never going to buy one of his pedals!
"You've converted me to Cubic thinking. Where do I sign up for the newsletter? I need to learn more about how I can break free from ONEism Death Math." - Soulsonic
Whatever, there's already a bunch of cool fuzzes in the DIY scene that do all that. Hell, it looks like that Jacques Mercer Box is doing all that too... a little late with the grand new improved fuzz, Mr. Fuller.
"Analog electronics in music is dead. Analog effects pedal design is a dead art." - Fran
has something I came up with called Max-end-all 2 Band EQ: an
excellent hi-cut with a great Bass control having the proprietary ability
to bring in incredible sounding midrange when the pot reaches around
3 o'clock on its rotation.
Come on!
Is he claiming to have invented the baxandall?
Anyone can play around with the values in the Duncan TSC and get a mid boost out of it...
I've allways enjoyed fulltone's ethic approach on pedals descriptions (and everything else, by the way):
Back in the day, when he still had plenty and cheap Ge tranniesthe 69' was THE shite, "from screaming leads, crunch and boost, it'll do anything" kinda thing. Then same sales arguments with the 70', tonebender, etc
now they change the speech,
....they are one trick ponies, can't do even a bad impersonation of an overdrive or clean boost
...they have major interaction issues with other effects like wah and modualtion (vibes, etc)
...they all have a sloppy, farty low-end.
....they have tons of bass/tons of highs but can't cut through a mix to save their lives...there are absolutely no Mids if you want them.
...only Fuzzface-type pedals Truly clean up when you turn down the guitar's volume knob, and even those get unuseable bright for anyone not using a brown old Marshall 4-input.
so I guess if this piece of brilliant unbiased "information" was available back in the day talking about the 69' pedal things would have been a little different.
"...they all have a sloppy, farty low-end."
this guy's generalization skills amazes me every time, so I guess he tried and tested all fuzzes in the market and came up with this conclusion.
They do make OKish pedals but their attitude just make me wanna puke.
6gpower
Reply Hey Man, is this the replacement for that awesome 69 Pedal?
fulltoneeffects
Reply Hi, I suppose it is, but it is a lot more versatile, and frankly I cannot find great Germanium Transistors anymore, so I made the catalyst, which uses FET's and can get warmer than the 69, yet fuzzier than the 70 pedal.
I love how paranoic people get... I don't know, it just came to me how stupid (or confident) they (bouteekeers) probably feel when they sand the semiconductors or epoxy their boards....
Fuzzed wrote:
He might have hidden some components under the pots, double check that.
I don't think so, it seems like the kind of thing that fuller wouldnt design. harder to service... and he will need to unsolder the pots to figure it out... just check for pcb drills from the bottom of the board. easier
Doesn´t sound interesting to me at all. The Fulltone page has a lot of voodoo-hype about it. He sold thousands of ´70s, ´69s and Soul Bender Fuzzes, and now he wanna tell us that the Catalyst is the only one - what da f*ck?!
Let's see if this is true;
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