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[Old Gold]

I'm seriously considering spending a weeks pay on a ZVex Fuzz Factory after seeing the demo video, and being a fan of making a shitload of beautiful noise.

Anybody got any first hand experience of them?

[britheguy]

I know it's not the same, but I've got a Zvex SHO. I quailty of this pedal is very good, cute to boot.
If you like what you've heard...go for it. Where are you going to get it from?

[Scott!]

David has one, I've played around with it a little. It's loads of fun for screeching, weirdness &c but sometimes a little tricky to ger "under control" for more conventional tones. It's a pretty cool pedal nevertheless.

[Old Gold]

Originally Posted by britheguy

I know it's not the same, but I've got a Zvex SHO. I quailty of this pedal is very good, cute to boot.
If you like what you've heard...go for it. Where are you going to get it from?

Awesome... I was just gonna get it from one of the shops Vex has listed on his site. It's not the easiest of gear to find, so it looks like I'll need to pay with my soul.

Especially as I'll be buying the groovy handpainted one. My current pedal board's a bit swamped with uniform Boss merch

[Old Gold]

Originally Posted by Scott!

David has one, I've played around with it a little. It's loads of fun for screeching, weirdness &c but sometimes a little tricky to ger "under control" for more conventional tones. It's a pretty cool pedal nevertheless.

Sweet. I've got a fuzz built into my Crybaby if I'm ever after a straight up tone. It's just not the most exciting of noises, and has minimum variation (ie, a hidden away volume control and a 'low fuzz to high fuzz' knob). The fuzz factory looks like the next step in overthrowing my emo-at-heart co-guitarist.

[britheguy]

Originally Posted by SpanishArmada

Awesome... I was just gonna get it from one of the shops Vex has listed on his site. It's not the easiest of gear to find, so it looks like I'll need to pay with my soul.

Especially as I'll be buying the groovy handpainted one. My current pedal board's a bit swamped with uniform Boss merch

You could try contacting the guy at Tonefrenzy in the states http://www.tonefrenzy.com/. I got my SHO and Moonrock from them. Very helpfull and sent over my Wyllie Moonrock, and called it a gift for tax reasons.
Get on his site you might see some other pedals you want. the Wyllie fuzz pedals are quite interesting. [url]http://home.mindspring.com/~wylo/

Sorry not I'm not good at getting links on to these pages

good luck

[Old Gold]

Originally Posted by britheguy

You could try contacting the guy at Tonefrenzy in the states http://www.tonefrenzy.com/. I got my SHO and Moonrock from them. Very helpfull and sent over my Wyllie Moonrock, and called it a gift for tax reasons.
Get on his site you might see some other pedals you want. the Wyllie fuzz pedals are quite interesting. [url]http://home.mindspring.com/~wylo/

Sorry not I'm not good at getting links on to these pages

good luck

Thanks mate, this is gold.

[Jan Deal]

Ever thought about a Fender Blender?

[Old Gold]

Any idea how the Blender compares to the Fuzz Factory?

I'm pretty confident about the ZVex, but alternatives would be cool.

[David]

Got one at home

Incredible pedal, though as Scott said, maybe not for 'nice' classic fuzz tones, though you can get some pretty reasonable sound out of it, though on the harsher side than a fuzzface or something. The odd sounds are excellent fun though, heavily gated 'velcro' sounds and odd oscillations and much more joy to be had
A shitload of beautiful noise: check (though beautiful is a bit of a strange way to describe it )

The Blender is a more 'standard' fuzz pedal, and probably sits with the zvex on the harsh side of fuzz sounds though, but is a lot more 'standard' than the ZVex, though on that note, a lot easier to control and get 'good' sounds from, the zvex does have huge control over all the sounds it can make, but does require sitting down and toying with it for a while to see what you come up with

sounds great and mansons do the zvex pedals, though I can't remember the prices, my Vexter ff was £125 from soundsgreat, which wasn't much more than I would have paid from the US including shipping and duties, the more expensive versions could be more worth importing though

David