Charles Saufley

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Charles Saufley

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1 month ago | premierguitar.com | Charles Saufley

One big, bad, and very boss, no-frills fuzz. On the surface, fuzz is an almost barbarian concept—a nasty sound that’s easy to grasp in our imaginations. But contrast David Gilmour’s ultra-creamy Big Muff sounds with James Gurley’s free and visceral fuzz passages from Big Brother and the Holding Company’s Cheap Thrillsand you remember that two different fuzzes, in the hands of two different players, can speak very different languages.

1 month ago | premierguitar.com | Charles Saufley

Bold-voiced, super-tunable distortion that excels in contexts from filtered boost to total belligerence. Whitman Audio calls the Wave Collapse a fuzz—and what a very cool fuzz it is. But classifying it strictly as such undersells the breadth of its sounds. The Seattle, Washington-built Wave Collapse has personality at low gain levels and super crunchy ones.

1 month ago | premierguitar.com | Charles Saufley

Adding octave, drive, and boost functions to an extraordinary fuzz yields a sum greater than its already extraordinary parts. One should never feel petty for being a musical-instrument aesthete. You can make great music with ugly stuff, but you’re more likely to get in the mood for creation when your tools look cool.

1 month ago | premierguitar.com | Charles Saufley

A fuzz/boost combo that’s as hot as the name suggests, but which offers plenty of smoky, subdued gain shades, too. Generally speaking, I avoid combo effects. If I fall out of love with one thing, I don’t want to have to ditch another that’s working fine. But recent fixations with spatial economy find me rethinking that relationship. MayFly’s Le Habanero (yes, the Franco/Spanish article/noun mash-up is deliberate) consolidates boost and fuzz in a single pedal. That’s far from an original concept.