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[Hedegaardo1]

as the title states, does John use a Fuzz Factory in this solo?



at the end..

It it's not a FF which pedal can create theese kind of tone?

Thanks

[ricky9nelson]

Hedegaardo1, on Mar 2 2010, 02:17 PM, said:

as the title states, does John use a Fuzz Factory in this solo?



at the end..

It it's not a FF which pedal can create theese kind of tone?

Thanks

It's hard to be sure the exact pedal he's using on that, but judging by the period in which it was recorded I would not say that it's a FF. I think he didn't use anything other than a big muff or boss FZ-3 for fuzz up until stadium arcadium.

The one thing that I'm almost 100% sure of is that this was recorded without an amp, that is to say, straight to a recorder, preamp, or console. And to be honest my ears are telling me that he just overloaded the input preamp to get distortion. I have a smll home studio and Sometimes expriment with plugging my guitar straight in and overdriving the hell out of the preamp, it kinda sounds like this, not a lot of sustain, and a little shrill.

To sum up, I'd say its either:

-preamp overdrive
-John's DS-2 plugged straight into the console

It doesnt sound too much like a fuzz to me.

Hope that helps.

[Hedegaardo1]

Thanks

Yea I thought of that too, but something just pushed me to think it was a FF.. I think it can make a tone pretty close to it..

Atleast you know that fuzzed out chorus tone John often use in his really depressing tunes? I can get that with a FF into a CE-1 even without the CE-1 is getting overloaded