Mini Fuzz Face Shootout w/ Jeorge Tripps & James Santiago
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Many thanks to James Santiago from Voodoo Labs for performing in and producing this video demo/shootout featuring the new line of three Mini Fuzz Faces from Dunlop Manufacturing. The video also stars Dunlop's own in-house director and designer of electronics Jeorge Tripps who provides the inside technical information about each of the pedals.
The Fuzz Face Mini pedal line features legendary Fuzz Face tones in smaller, more pedalboard-friendly housings with several modern appointments: true bypass switching, a bright status LED, an AC power jack and a convenient battery door.
The FFM1 Silicon Fuzz Face Mini is spec'd from a 1970 Fuzz Face in our own collection prized for its bright and aggressive Fuzz Face sound delivered by its matched BC108 silicon transistors.
The FFM2 Germanium Fuzz Face Mini is based on '66-'68 era pre-silicon Fuzz Faces famous for warm vintage fuzz tones provided by slightly mismatched germanium transistors.
The FFM3 Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face Mini has the exact same circuit as the JHF1 in smaller housing, delivering the thick, smooth Fuzz Face tone that Jimi Hendrix made famous in a pedalboard-friendly size.
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The small ones don't seem as happy as the big one, they seem more shocked
HAHAHAHAHA
🤡 Big Fuzz
😮 Mini Fuzz
story of life
I only just noticed they really looked like faces
Yes, indeed. I must agree. I mean, the big guy is smiling and the others? Well.......
In this video, I like the Jimi Hendrix mini fuzz face, the tone fuzz seems to fall in between the blue and the red, best of both world.
Kind of stunning that this only has 1.3k likes nearly 9 years later. The comparison was superbly done and really gives one a sense of the character of each. FFM3 for me, no question.
Wow, that Blue Fuzz-Face sounds fantastic. Like a blend between a great Fuzz and a Boss DS-1 type of tone.
I love that powder blue fuzz. Sounds like it has more mids and less "muddy" sounding
Agree
Thanks for an awesome demo! I definitely dig the blue one best, but was glad to hear the differences to make an educated decision. Dunlop rocks!!
This is Dunlop's official TH-cam channel and they're using the term "silicone."
It's killing me man..... of all people....
The metalloid element, Dunlop, not the plasticky thingy!!! Silicon is 50% metal so it's a metalloid anyway.
Edit: FYI silicone is that rubbery plastic thing that has silicon metalloid in it. It's mostly used in caulking.
Hey wait, wait just a minute, isn't silicone valley and silicon valley both in California? So does it matter?
I just love the clean sound of a silicon FF with the volume rolled off...
Which fuzz is your favorite for glassy cleans?
Great job at showcasing these pedals. I now know now I would prefer the blue pedal. Thank you for the in·sight.
Jeorge is taking things to the next level at Dunlop!
This how a demo should be made. Thanks for the vid.
I love the blue silicon version.
I really like the sound of the red one, I'll defiantly be picking one up when they're available
Best fuzz Demo!
HOLY SHIT GET TO THE DEMO
fentastic demo !! thanks !
Fantastic demo and fantastic playing good sir.
I'd love a mini version of the EJ fuzz face.
Try the « band of gypsys » one
@@Music_is_fun no. Band of gypsys fuzz is totally different from the germanium or silicon standards. Bog is based off of the octavio circuit fuzz. Eric johnsons is a modified silicon
Awesome review. Thanks!
Such a great tour de force of fuzz ❤️
The germanium with the strat was perfect
Playing starts at 2:52
Thanks! :) That's good to know. I think the blue one (silicon) sounds the best for my purposes.
Blue has best overall sound, love to hear with a Wah pedal!
In a scale
1st - Si Panties Blue : Great clean up while rolling back the volume pot & awesome brightness
2nd - Ge Red : Great clean up while rolling back the volume pot but too dark
3nd - Dark Blue : Awesome brightness but doesn't clean so well.
Ps.: I have a classic red one, the big, from late 90s. It's an awesome pedal. I don't find it too dark because I have a brazilian ivory scale strat and set the amp EQ like bass:3, mid:8,5, tre:6. So it's just about setting up your gear.
Great video btw
thanks for keeping the amp clean so its easier to hear the differences in the pedals. hendrix lets guitars natural tone come through best but i think i like the bottom end in the red
I have one of the blue ones. It sounds great, the only issue is that the switch is a dpdt and there is not true bypass, something remain connected between guitar and amp when the effect is bypassed.
It's a baby still ! How cute. I want to adopt one.
The guy played "Asa Branca" riff, a Brazilian song, in the beginning. The blue one sounds best to me.
THE BLUE ONE for me !
That red one sounded killer with single coils. The left blue one shinned with the LP.
El azul es mi favorito! 🙌😎🎸
The germanium is heavenly.
The red one sounds the best to me.
I like the silicon.
Thanks!
Nice demo! I was wondering if those Jimi Hendrix System pedals, specially JH 2s, made in early 90s and 00s sound like any of these?
Btw IMO the Silicon FF dark blue sound slightly better than Hendrix FF soft blue.
Cheers from Brazil
That was a darn good question - unfortunately here in the states society is constantly degrading it seems, and one of our downfalls is the majority is stuck on new is good and old is well old so it's to be moved on from. We're becoming pathetic as people become less and less individual and free thinking and more "plugged in" to the feeding tube so they can gobble up the "programming" = now I want to fail at sounding brittish - ahh to bloody hell with all of ya - ye worthless little twits!
If you want that, "ripping people's faces off in Pompeii" David Gilmour tone, you should probably go with the dark blue one.
Overall, the dark blue one is better if you use your bridge pickup a lot (on a strat), the red one isn't very good at all (IMO), and the Jimi Hendrix one works for the neck pickup with it's epic mid hump.
number 1 sounded the best to me. killer for leads.
Gimour used red FF from 68-71, then blue from 71-75
(so yeah, you're right)
Coopersboy7 Yep. Although he used BC109 in the pre-Muff days.
I hear if you change cap in dark blue from .01 to .10 you get a louder/bassier tone (Red & Hendrix have the .10... but .01 is the correct original)
With the Germanium Fuzz Face being PNP, do you have to use a separate power supply, or has a charge pump been added to flip the polarity, so that it can be daisy chained with other pedals?
i like the dark blue! sounds better
I liked the blue one.
Can I adjust the internal pot of my FF3 to get a less bassy fuzz? (I'm losing too much top at the moment and getting more bottom end than I want for lead parts.) On mine there's only a quater-turn between the factory setting and the max clockwise setting. What happens if I go in anti-clockwise direction (including any damage to the tranny)?
I think i prefer the germanium for the strat the hendrix one is still good
Last I heard, these things were supposed to be available in April 2013. It is almost May now. How are we doing on the get the mini fuzz faces to to the people project?
Also, since people that might buy these thingamabobs prefer small stuff to the GIGANTOR models of the past, what is the diameter of these thingamabobs?
Well I have the fulltone 70's silicon fuzz and i like that,which is like a fuzzface clone. I've also got a big muff, but thats kind of it's own pedal altogether. Depends what you want in a fuzz. I tried these out today at a music store and prefered the blue one, I like a tighter more high end sound, but you may prefer the low end growl of a more germanium fuzz. Anything based on the fuzzface circuit is usually a winner, and um earthquaker devices check them out but expect 300 for one of those!!!
A really important thing to know is how they all sound with the volume around 8 or 9, between clean and full on
I WANT THEM ALL!!!!!!!
I like the fuzz sound of the blue one the best, but the red and the hendrix both clean up better so I am left undecided on which I would buy.
Fuzz should be nasty :v
The blue one is a killer!!!
There are 2 blue ones?
Will these remain tonewise unafffected in all types of non-buffered switchers? Im running a CM octaswitch btw
I think that really is only effected when you put pedals such as Wahs in front of it which have a much lower output impedance.
is the silicon fuzz face essentially the same as the classic bc108 fuzz?
That one sounded extra nice with the Les Paul, in my opinion.
These should be identically gain structured, but the dark blue silicone one is turned up enough to make the listening test false. It is driving the head a little more and will have more overtones.
Maybe they should, but they are not.. the blue one have always done a worse job of cleaning up.. look at other reviews for reference or try for yourself. However, I prefer the slightly more top-endish fuzziness of the blue one.
I like the blue one's lead tone best.
great job comparing these (I mean it's obvious how to do it but most people are too busy showing off to play the same riff through each pedal)
I have the red and dark blue ones. My favorite is the red (germanium) but it clearly loses this shootout to me. Both the red and blue sound a lot brighter through my amps so the red sounds more natural and the blue can get a little harsh in the treble. I love them both, however.
At first I thought the Hendrix was clearly the best but as this went on I started focusing in on an upper mid-range hump in the Hendrix that was a bit unpleasant to me. I ended up thinking the EQ profile of the blue silicon pedal was nicer (with this setup).
I hope to own all varieties of the fuzz face when all is said and done. They are very affordable and fantastic.
Oh, one last thing: my germanium cleans up a lot better and you can hear that here. (The Hendrix seems to clean up similarly to the germanium red). The red one cleans up to an almost jazzy tone. The blue silicon never entirely cleans up -- maybe if you pick incredibly gently while the pickups are turned 90% of the way down -- but it cleans up to a tone similar to the Beatles' Revolver/Sgt. Pepper guitars. Which is great!
The regular blue .1 has this nice hollow empty glassy ? Top end 😋
im raddle about which fuzz face should i get! my amp is a little Orange 20l !!
The difference seems very subtle. There is some slight level of gain on the Blue. The red has the least gain.
I already have an MXR classic mini fuzz 108 -- which Fuzz Face should I get that's DIFFERENT sounding? I also have a EHX Big Muff Op Amp? And Earthquaker Device Park Fuzz Sound.
Awesome! I wish you would’ve played the big original fuzz for comparison. Not sure if that was an old germanium… anyone here know which mini sounds most like that original germanium Face-or even a larger silicon Face? 😝🤘🏻🎸
Number ! for me. Leslie West !
Holy Stain fuzz, Randy Hansen. I'm set.
I wish I had a surname like Tripps.
These all sound good. Probably has a lot to do with a great designer and a player who knows what he's doing. To get a good sounding fuzz you need both. Great comparison. Well done.
I dig the silicon one the best :)
Whichone - there are 2 - Dark blue and light blue?
If you'll notice their volumes are all up in the same region. Perhaps it's just a louder pedal which is relevant information.
When are these going to be out in shops?
hey Jeorge: its silicon, not siliCONE! Very different stuff...
That blue boi gets my vote.
I can hear the bumped mids in the Hendrix and the Germanium is really dark. It's the Silicon Fuzz Face Mini for me.
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I'd like it if the Hendrix fuzz had a bit more push to it.
FFM1 (Silicon) = 2:47
FFM2 (Germanium) = 3:42
FFM3 (Hendrix) = 4:29
when are this going to be available?
Jimi Hendrix Fuzz is Awesome for me! Full on it is Fat! Roll off the tone a bit, and it is Amazing!
doesn't the germanium one need to have direct, high impedence input from the guitar to get its optimum performance? in the demo it was in a switcher; won't that make a difference?
I got the silicone and germanium FFM’s today, and the silicone seems quieter than the germanium? Like I have to turn the level up almost all the way to bring it to unity volume. Is this normal ?
When and where can I buy one? Or all of them..........
do these has the same guts as a standard size one?
So, as far as sound goes, these are identical to the full size fuzz faces they're based off of, right?
One more question: I imagine that the red germanium thingamabob should not be used with the same power supply as most effects or it will fry your pedalboard, but what about the sea foam hendrix thingamabob -- is that silicon or germanium? I am guessing that it is silicon from the sound.
@2m24s you can clearly see the word "Silicon" on the box. You've been voted as the person with the dumbest comments on TH-cam for 2019 thus far.
Maybe, whatever the reason it worked. I ordered one and awaiting delivery to replace my old large germanium fuzz face that hasn't been the same since I plugged it in the wrong way around due to the wacky in out setup and me being a little dazed and confused at the time. The power option on these is cool too.
The volume on the matched silicon is higher than that on the germanium and Hendrix.
Dynomite!! Lol. Very cool.
Hi can somebody give me an help? i like the eric johnson fuzz solo sound, it's what im looking for, wich one should i buy the blue or the red one? Thank you very much
Buy the one YOU like and make it YOUR sound.
So do the fuzz face minis have the EXACT same tone as the original ones? Is the only difference the LED, true bypass, and AC adapter? Or do they have a different or not as big tone as the originals?
Are there BC109 or BC183 versions?
I'd be inclined to try out the blue silicon fuzz face if it was in the big housing, the innards look far too complicated for a pedal that should consist of two transistors, four resistors, three capacitors and two pots: in fact you could do away with the fuzz pot and just control it from your guitar's volume.
the fuzz pot is part of the feed back network,doing away with it leaves only full signal feedback,which is out of phase with the input signal,so would give minimal signal gain.
Surprisingly the Jimi Hendrix one sounded the best to me. Brighter and better clean up.
I thought the Germanium would sound the best. But is quite dark in comparison.
Definitely the dark blue =D
Cool
Nice demo. The dark blue sounds best followed the Hendrix and lastly the red one. Sadly I didn't really notice much upper octave effect on any of these. It's there I guess but should be more pronounced. Cheers
Definitely the Blue sounds better!
yikes Jeorge you hit the strat with the LP :(
fantastic sounding pedals. Got the germanium one!
Hello , I would like to put a feet in the fuzz world ...I always had OD boutique pedals and look for a first fuzz pedal experience, not too fuzzy ( sorry!), not too dark and muddy...a slightly fuzzy one...which one , not to expensive too ?
Thanks a lot for your answer, kind regards from France
Belo Blues look for a tone bender type pedal. Cheers!
I prefer the silicon version!
Nice Ward Beck console
I want all of them ....
Can you put bc183s in a fuzz face mini