HUGE part of Jimi Hendrix Tone! Original FUZZ FACE
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- We play an original 1967 (not 1970 as I say in the clip) Arbiter England Fuzz Face fuzz pedal through a 1968 50W Marshall Plexi and a 1969 Marshall 1982A 4x12 using a 1963 Fender Stratocaster and a 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard (Original Burst).
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This channel is number 1 on my top 5 underrated guitar channels
Thanks Samuel, glad to hear that!
Johan is such a great guy. What are the other channels though, since I'm always looking?
Why do you say under rated? His channel is bone crushing, and all the guitarists know it.
Thanks Johan for showing how dynamic this simple set up is! I learned about this decades ago while working at a music store. People really don’t know how great a lot of the old gear was!
Johan is getting better and better! Man I'm hyped for this!
Thanks Patrik, I'm glad to hear that
From the first seconds of playing with that fuzz on it was a no-brainer. Best tones of any of your videos to date. This looks like it was a particularly fun day at the office!
Yeah we had an extreme amounr of fun :-) Cheers
For all this time I asked myself.
When will Johan do a Strat-Fuzz Face-Marshall video?
Thank you. As Jimi brought us this sound Rock changed for ever
Thanks Frank :-)
@@JohanSegeborn Yes way more Jimi, Stevie ray and how about FRANK MARINO!! Frank is going on tour again!!
Oh yeah, Frank Marino would be great!
And the reason for his sparkling clean tones rolling down the volume with the fuzz on!
Yes, the mojo of a fuzz-face circuit is to use the volume control on the guitar.
@@charlfrick8245 That's goes for any old fuzz circuit, they all have a very similar circuit (because they were all modified and copied from the Gibson Maestro Fuzz tone in one way or another), and all had an input impedance of about 10k.
I think rolling the volume down with a fuzz works best if it's a Germanium Fuzz. Not sure if this Fuzz is Silicone or Germanium.
I can't guess witchcraft?
@@hkguitar1984 I think Jimi's fuzz was Germanium, it was rumored he would put it in a fridge before shows to effect the transistors and their tonal response.
I have 3 Silicone fuzzes myself and the volume trick works with them
Adds such a lovely saturation, harmonics and texture. Perfect
Thanks!
How in the hell do you come across all this sweet vintage gear all the time.....SO JEALOUS
With money
Sweden. Every citizen is issued a vintage rig every month.
The vintage pedal Choose you
that fuzz face sounds really amazing with single coil pickups 💕
Simply beautiful. Thank you!
Hope you’re weathering heat wave a well as possible - thanks for heating up the Marshall (and your studio) for this demo!!
The strat with the fuzz face sounded amazing
Thanks!
I love a subtle fuzz sound. Great demo. Thanks again.
Glad to hear it
This actually looks like a ‘66!
Nice pedal!
Why no volume control manipulation?? Thats one of its best aspects and very Hendrix.
Thomas Murphy
Agree. The clean up ability of these silicon Fuzz Faces is why I love using them.
I can go from Wind Cries Mary tone, to Voodoo Chile(Slight Return), with just the volume knob.
Yeah. Kept waiting for the cleanup. Never happened. Good thing l skipped ahead... would have been almost 7 minutes of my life.
Is this working with the new ones also? Maybe even the mini version?
exploreguitar the clean up aspect? Does with my mini, I’ve got the silicon Jimi Hendrix fuzz face mini and it cleans up very nicely when you roll off the volume, not as good on humbuckers but on p90’s or other single coils it’s godly
Yes - the clean up. I've got the hendrix mini as well and was wondering if it cleans up as nice as the big one. Are you using it into a cranked amp, a Klon or tube screamer/overdrive pedal? I only heard people using it this way with a Klon ?!
Sounds huge and beautiful
Thanks, glad to hear it!
Great video and playing guys
Well done and thanks for sharing brothers! Hard to beat that germanium tone! I really wanted one of these when I was a kid!
Be Well Johan and Simon!
Have a great weekend!
You have a great one you too my friend!
The les paul burst through the fuzz face sounded pretty darn close to Neil Young's tone. Great vid Johan, keep em up dude. Greetings from canada ;)
Great sounds ! I checked a few of them, too. They all sound different. If you got one, which is good sounding its a pedal for a lifetime !
excellent tones in this video!
Thanks Jay!
Some of my favourite tone that Johan has ever got is in this video. Fantastic stuff.
Good stuff J. I bought a couple of fuzz face clones recently. A germanium & silicon pair. They are only cheapo £25 pedals but they are pretty spot on. I also bought a plasma pedal by Gamechanger audio. That is really cool but expensive as hell. It was a birthday treat though that one. That set me back £270. I just had to get one . I also wanna get some Mayer Voodoo lab pedals. You know the ones that look like a spaceship? Pedals are gonna be my new hobby. Cheers man. Keep it up. ;)
what a beautiful les paul, that's the exact burst tone i'd like to have some day
Sounds so fine. Marshall, LP, Strat and Fuzz all original. It's pure heaven.
Thanks man!
Hi Johan I love your videos but I think you missed out on the best thing about a fuzz face which is rolling back the guitar volume. There's is a tipping point where it cleans up and you can get amazing glassy cleans with a bit of sand chucked in. The fuzz face is the best pedal ever once you can unlock this secret.
That was all kinds of glorious!!
Hi Johan ! What an amazing pedal, would test one someday ahah, keep rocking :)
Jesus Christ those are some righteous f’n tones. Those sounds are why I wanted to play guitar. Just gorgeous
Great sounds and playing too! Not your average Fuzz Face demo~THANKS
Perfect.
Thanks! Glad you like it
Jimi Segeborn sounds very nice but Screamin' Simon is absolutely smashing! Thank you for the lovely noice and cheers!
yeah I was waiting for this!
I like the top of the pedal as they made kind of a smiley face. Can't afford one of these originals I'm looking at a Color Sound MkII. Thanks as usual Johan, nice job and gear is over the top.
I'm also intrested in hearing the fuzz face with those Vox amps as well
Great vídeo. Jimi lives.
Great vid man and we must be in some sort of synchronisation because I have recently dusted my FuzzFace off! and it's become essential for me now. it's about 10+ years old so a reissue, I've meddled with the bias a bit and I find the gig-rig virtual battery to be great at powering the thing without impacting on the tone. FazzFace into Marshall is THE sound :)
This will help you burn the midnight lamp! \m/
BTW, that’s probably the best sounding FF I’ve heard in the last 45 years!
So good!
The best advice I’ve ever seen on using a FF - think of it as “icing on the cake” with an overdriven Marshall. They don’t sound great with a clean tone, but a NMV Marshall at 8-10 pretty much sounds like there’s a fuzz on, anyway. So adding the FF doesn’t change the tone much, just gives more sustain.
I used to set my Marshall fairly clean and then use the FF for the big overloaded sound, but it never sounded great on either the clean or fuzz sounds. I eventually realized that Marshalls are simply made to be turned up. If you want a clean tone, get a Twin!
The really cool thing is that you get a better clean tone by turning up the Marshall to fully distorted, turning on the FF, and turning down the guitar’s volume.
Yes magical
How to fucking turn it up max when you play in appartment
@@abracaroguearcane1484 Try JHS Little Black Amp Box Goes in the loop and adjust to taste Not an attenuater
@@paulcowart3174 nice one man so i got a very bright tube amp it would still give me that sparkle on 12 amp and low on the JHS ? Cheers
What are you talking about?
The plexi clean tone is one of the best sounds on earth
I own a Fuzz Face from '67. It has Germanium Transistors NKT 275. It sounds totally different. A lot more raw and archaic. Very much like Hendrix. Super cool Video nevertheless. Thank you!
Mine got stolen in the 90s and I'm still chasing that tone There is a guy making spot on clones but very pricey but if I added up the money I've spent on wannabee's There you go
That’s a gorgeous Les Paul. But that strat sounds ferocious with that rig. That’s that Jimi tone for sure. I love your videos. Like I’ve said before,” I wish you were my next door neighbor cause it would be a dream come true to play through some of the gear you play through at high volume”.
Also I saw you made a video about the Elmwood M60 Modena. I bought one a few months ago and this thing rocks. Unbelievably flexible and does clean to mean as well as any amp I’ve ever played. Your review of the M60 helped me decide to pull the trigger on it and I couldn’t be happier. Thanks for your awesome vids
My story.
I was buying a pair of celestion speakers from a private seller who was heading for retirement and out of the corner of my eye, I see a fuzz. I honestly had no idea about fuzz faces at the time, but decided I'd ask if he would sell as I figured they were worth something. He did after explaining he was the original owner.. It's identical to yours. 1967 Arbiter Fuzz Face with white writing on black. I keep thinking I should sell as prices seem insane, but then I plug it in.
Some really cool tones there!!! I find that adding a buffer before the fuzz Face can really beef up the signal as well! That would be a cool vid to do as well, due to the natural lower impedance found in the ff input side
This sounds so good! Great stuff as usual guys. Loved those oblique bends at 4:51. Have a great weekend. God bless and rock on!
Have a great weekend, brother!
divine tone . divine tone. I wonder why no pedal manufacturer ever puts a well-made fuzz on the market that really sounds like this
Suprisingly the new Dunlop Fuzz Faces sound incredibly good and authentic. I've played (never owned) vintage Fuzz Faces and have owned numerous top quality/authentic clones and to my surprise I find my turquoise Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face and Red Fuzz Face Mini are my favorite and sound the closest to vintage pedals I have personally played... Far Out, I used to despise anything Dunlop!
Hi, Johan!
So, this is how he did it! I am trying to understand his sound 30 years, and now I will search after this. Sounds great - Woodstock in my hand!:-) Have a nice weekend!
Zigfrid
Thanks Zigfrid! Have a nice weekend you too!
For Woodstock jimi didn't use a fuzz face,he used an Octavia circuit with the transformer and and diodes removed (the Octave producing part of the circuit)..it was housed in a red fuzz face enclosure but the insides had nothing in common with a fuzz face.
@@danielallan5058 Daniel, I think, you are a little wrong about it. I know, how much Octava technology is popular. My best friend from Detroit plays with only Russian stuff, but in 1969 USSR was unable to develop such so high quality level. First time I heard about Octava & Svetlana only 2-3 years ago, while I was born in USSR, and I left that country in 1990, and since then I never came back. But my memories about probably unplayable guitats, stainless steel organs, burning and blowing speakers and amps - that was the real situation. Normal Yamaha was ONE is the whole town.
Maybe Octava could make only export pruduction, but they had no reason to do it. Selling weapons was much more productive and effective way + fuels. I can't believe, if Woodstock was using Soviet stuff, whole the Russian Federation was know about it.
Man, I left that damned 3-world country NOT because of my love to travel. I left it for living a NORMAL LIFE, not HIGHER LEVEL, but not as well as Borat in the movie.
No way, any Soviet Union products was involved there. I am agree to buy it only in Detroit with my Afro-American dudes and brothers. Only this way. Because they are normal musicians, and they are probably not the "secret agent" guys.:-)
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I think that is the best-sounding vintage silicon I have heard. Did you have your pick of several, or did you get lucky?
I have one just like this one with all the og components. It really is a major part of Hendrixs tone. It's kinda crazy how none of these newer fuzz boxes sound like the originals considering how simple the circuit is. Now that I 😢think about it, the simpler the circuit, the more its tone will change depending on 1 or 2 parts being a different brand or a different value.
Pure gold 🔥
Thanks! :-)
Man, where do you get all this vintage gear? You never cease to amaze me! 🤘
Any fuzz face properly used will sound great in front of most any amp. When I first started out I played a Strat through an old traynor YB1 head into a Marshall 2 12 1936 cab and a Electro-harmonix big Muff with an MXR phase 90. Dialed it in and Whooooooaaaaaaa. Just a hint of phase and just enough Big Muff. That was late 1970's. Miss that EL34 Traynor Head.
Monterey pop festival，the song «wild thing» is my favorite fuzz tone of Jimi Hendrix.
Rock me baby and Killing Floor for me. Those solos SING!
I’m quite new to your channel... I wonder how do find so much great gear??! Anyways, thanks for sharing. You’re the best🤘
Great tones Johan. NKT275 transistors? I made one with ac128's but it doesnt sound quite right, maybe i got the wrong HFE/biasing.
Hi Johan! Big fan here, wondering if you ever plan to do a Ramones tone video!
Have you tried the Marshall origin with a tube screamer or a distortion+ does it sound like the nwobhm bands etc?
I’m considering buying one cause it has the classic Marshall sound that imo the dsl lacks. But I can always pay some more for a second hand silver jubilee mini
Please, make a video about David gilmour with THAT fuzz face!!!
he kinda looks like him...
Echoes
I heard that he also used a Colorsound Overdriver, perhaps from sometime in the early 70's. Jeff Beck and Jan Akkerman also used this pedal. I've had three of them. The relaunch with a volume knob on the side is not as good as the original that had a sweeter tone. Colorsound lets you use guitar volume to clean or dirty the sound and I love it.
Fernandel - Slide Guitar jam
Yeah, the Gilmourish channel goes over the effect and when Gilmour was using them.
CorbCorbin thanks for the tip. Jeff Beck and Jan Akkerman I've seen a photo and video where Colorsound appears, but with Gilmour I had only read it somewhere.
Sounds better than I thought it would with the Les Paul humbuckers.
Blue strat is beautiful !
For your info, guys, JH use to tuned his guitar an half-step down, which change the sound, and gives the drive some kind of another feel...
The goods are really gettting used in this video. Going all out. Major
Very nice sounding Fuzz Face. One must know how to play it, and you both do. It's a musical instrument not mere effect.
wich transistors in it ?
I've got a 1968 with NKT275 red dot transistors. Very rare, very nice sounding. Does yours have the silicon or germaniums?
I'm a Les Paul player, but that Strat sounded amazing!
Johands! I clicked like before I heard it.. Hey, can you do a tribute video on all Frank Marino's gear? He is going back on tour in April and May 2020! Frank the Meistro! He should have been, and still should be one of the top 10 famous guitarists of all time.. he is the greatest most underrated of all time! Anyone that does not know who he is check out his live album with the simple black cover and the eagle on the cover. FRANK!! He is a lot like Jimi, but uses different guitars and gear. Same psychedelic blues rock style.
Great video, SRV tone too
About as legit of a rig as anyone could have 👍
I've read that Hendrix actually used Fender combo amps on his studio recordings, and only really used them for live shows, but I'm not sure how true that is. I generally dislike fuzz pedals, but this can sound great, I just find it takes too much crunch out of the tone, but you really nailed it.
This is what retirement is going to be like. Just this, all day every day
my favourite tones are those with the pedal bypassed 🐸
Hendrix used to turn down his volume on the guitar dramatically when he played the "clean stuff" such as on Little Wing, All along the watchtower ect. When he did solos such as in Voodoo Chile he turned the volume up for max saturation and fuzz. To get something that sounds kind of like Hendrix take a fuzz unit turn it up fully, turn your amp up quite loud and turn the volume on the guitar heavily down. This should work for something that sound similar to Hendrix, "Under the bridge", Pearl Jam ect.
Torarin Vik depends on the type of fuzz also, several silicon fuzzes hate cleaning up and just sound like mush. Mainly big muff clones
Are you actually telling the king of vintage gear and tone how to actually achieve a tone ????? Lol you silly goose !
@@ryanlusby569 Yeah, I can imagine that. :)
@@Dad-Gad It is a well known trick actually, and I would have to believe Johan and Simon knows this. But I assume that not all of the viewers knew about this. If you have not tried it, the results might suprise you. :)
I can also say that Boss OD-1 is a very good pedal for this purpose IMO.
Nice
That's raw
Nice! Great video as always! When did you get the ‘60 Burst?
Thanks James! None of the gear in this video is mine unfortunately.
The first time i see someone using it the Hendrix way. Into a already driven amp and it sounds amazing. More like a boost. All demos into clean amps sound awful, they don´t get it. Now it would be interesting to hear a modern version in the same setup. I wish there were some bits with rolled off guitar volume. Thanks for all the great videos
Nice demo! Would love to hear/see a side by side comparison vs Big Muff.
Thanks, That will be coming up actually! :-)
Can you post a photo of the insides? Cheers!
Yep 👍 sounds proper !!
Roger mayer still makes a classic ( germanium) fuzz.
Thanks Paul
If I was told I had to make do with only three pieces of gear, it would be, hands down, a Strat or Telecaster, with a Fuzz Face, and a Plexi. Most of my favourite tones right there, clean to fuzzed out, just by going from 6 to 10 on the guitar volume.
You have access to the best vintage stuff. I’m waiting for the vid where you’re using an old EMI REDD console.
nice demo Johan, good sounds!! Did you had the volume pot on the gibson and strat on full?
Thanks, I think the pots were maxed out on both guitars
Just great ...get the Hendrix vibe straight off ...and its got big deep clean lows with a killer growl ...super tones gentlemen
Sounds so cool with that strat , single coils seem to sound better with the older Fuzz. .
the riff at 1:45 is amazing killer riff played by the master.yeah
Thanks! :-) Glad to hear it!
Sounds amazing, how much decibels in the room ?
When i crank my bassman 59 cant stay in front.
Javier Muñoz pick up some Surefire ear plugs.
Cool
These pedals sound great! It's a shame that fuzz pedals never became popular.
Have you never heard of the Grunge era?
@@topsecret1837 If it wasn't for the Grunge era my sarcasm would have fallen flat.
fuzz pedals were extremely popular during the 60s and 70s. it's only now that the guitarists with pedalboards on forums are only interested in how fuzz pedals sound at their most cleanest possible setting.
if that is yours A well done for being able to afford one, and B well done for finding one!!
Fuzz Ace!
The landmine of fuzz
I would like to see you demo a JMP-1 preamp, I just got one and I love it. Thoughts?
YES! I have one, love it, I just want to hear Johan summoning those 70's demons with one. "let's go!"
I'd love to hear one through the solid state 8004 power amp he demoed some months ago, and the mighty 9200. I got money says the right speaker & cab nulls most of the difference.
Was going to say, watch these prices rise. They are very very rare now. Even a 1970's one will cost over 1k. The Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys is a great alternative. Plus a lot lot less. :-)
This one is from 1967, I made a mistake in the intro
Just make one. 2 German surplus germanium NKT275s on the way. Delivered less than twenty bucks.
Cornell first fuzz
That's a great sounding pedal. I should wire one together. Circuit's incredibly simple.
But the exact components that make it sound the way it does, impossible to find.
@@pappyodanial We'll see. The NOS mil spec germanium transistors have shipped. Should be here in a week or so.
Grate tone bro what is the settings volumen and fuzz ?
BTW Excellent video once again Johan, such a beautiful sound from that pedal. How does it compare to the contemporary Fuzz Face?
Thanks Torarin! We can do an AB comparison
@@JohanSegeborn That sounds amazing! Thank you!
@@JohanSegeborn The small Mini Fuzz Faces sound pretty good.
I have an original fuzz face from the sixties in my attic somewhere.
David B it’s probably worth a fortune
He played Maestro Fuzz box
here in the United States.
Where are you filming that your into?