T
he Fuzz Face, Big Muff and Tone Bender have been done to death. In
fact, because of the current climate of fuzz peddling, many people may
think that these are the only fuzz circuits out there. When a company
releases something new, it’s cause for much rejoicing. However,
experimentation used to be the name of the game in the fuzz world, and many of
these groundbreaking breaths of fresh air have unfortunately fallen by the wayside.
Here are nine of them.
ELKA DIZZY TONE
Elka made a name for itself in 1981 when it released the Synthex, a monstrously
feature-laden analog synthesizer. Unbeknownst to almost everyone, synthesizers
were not the Italian company’s first musical rodeo. That belt buckle belonged to
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9 Old Bizarre Fuzz Boxes You Never Knew Existed