WORDS BY: JAMIE WOLFERT
T
he history of fuzz is riddled with
oddities and misfit effects. Many of
these were owned by few, loved by
fewer, and remembered by almost no one.
These effects have been lost to time for
the most part, but other rare, little-known
fuzzes have managed to stand the test of
time and earn at least a very respectable
cult status, if not a properly lofty place in
the pantheon of legendary dirt boxes. In
this Golden Age of Fuzz that we live in,
many of these once-cultish oddities have
been reverse-engineered and cloned by
enterprising modern pedal builders, giving
their unique circuits a second life in a new
era, and providing everyday fuzz maniacs
of modest means the opportunity to
enjoy exotic, rare tone artifacts that would
otherwise be accessible only to moneyed
vintage pedal hoarders. Among these cult
classic fuzz generators from an earlier era is
the phenomenal and singular Roland AF100
Bee Baa.
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