Last Fuzzaround, Black n Gold number #3 goes up tomorrow with this grimy piece of dirt that may or may not be of interest.....
No I've not gone mad and decided to sell all my old stuff. I'm selling it on behalf of a friend. I have not stated this on the listing but I'm letting you guys know so you know the crack.
Some info for interested parties....
Long story short, the Shrew came into being at the same time as the Meathead. I wanted to make a single knob fuzz box and the Shrew and the Meathead were the two candidates for the job. The winner of the two was obviously the Meathead. The Shrew uses an op-amp and clipping diode arrangement rather than transistor set-up of the Meathead so the tone isn't as open or as dynamic. The fuzz tone is more forced if that makes sense. The Shrew seemed to be too much where as the Meathead had at least some finesse with its behavior. Were as the Meatheads roots lay with a Tone Bender/ Fuzz Face circuit (Yaff yaff!) the Shrew was based on the op-amp version of the Muff Fuzz. I don't claim to have re-invented sliced bread so I feel it’s important to state where something comes from. It’s basically tuned in the right places to get the job done, well for my tastes at least.
This is the first Shrew that I made. It was originally made in 2002 and housed into a folded aluminum chassis. It was gigged to death and was then re-housed in 2004 in the enclosure you see now. Its quite obviously been well used since then. It was re-set up in 2004 primarily as a bass fuzz and too be used at stupid volume levels. The fuzz tone is very strong but has an abrupt gating effect as the note decays...not whilst you're playing only after the note rings out. It was intended this way as is was used as a bass fuzz and this seemed to help the note definition and its ability to cut through the mix. If my fragile memory serves me correct there were 3 Shrews made in total. One of those was actually labeled as a Bass Meathead but had this same type of circuit inside.
The start times (GMT) are:
6.30pm - Fuzzaround Black n Gold Hammer/Auction 3 days
9.30pm - The Shrew/Auction 3 days
There was one more new one-off pedal but I ain't finished it yet and I have to crack on with these 1966's so that will have to hang back for now.
Up after these will be the Black n Gold Meats. More info on those in a couple of days time.
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