Big difference between fuzz and distortion

[dirtybluesplayer]

Pareho mabigat ang tunog ng dalawa, ang fuzz ang kinilala na sinaunang distortion noong wala pang distortion, my question is, bakit mas mabibilis ang solo penatonics ko pag gumagamit ng distortion kaysa sa fuzz? An example is, tapping technique,,, pag ginawa mo sa fuzz kailangan perfect ang pag tantsa mo para tumunog ng maayos, di tulad ng distortion, very responsive, mas matunog kahit anong skills ang gamitin, pag fuzz, ang hirap mag solo kasi minsan napipigilan yung tunog dahil sa over sustain, nag cacut ng tone. Ang distortion, kahit isang bitaw ng nota at left hand mo lang ang ginagamit mo, napapatunog mo parin ng same volume, di tulad ng fuzz, kailangan both hands ang gamit mo para ma maintain ang volume and tone, if you know what i mean.

[Tasty]

Pareho mabigat ang tunog ng dalawa, ang fuzz ang kinilala na sinaunang distortion noong wala pang distortion, my question is, bakit mas mabibilis ang solo penatonics ko pag gumagamit ng distortion kaysa sa fuzz? An example is, tapping technique,,, pag ginawa mo sa fuzz kailangan perfect ang pag tantsa mo para tumunog ng maayos, di tulad ng distortion, very responsive, mas matunog kahit anong skills ang gamitin, pag fuzz, ang hirap mag solo kasi minsan napipigilan yung tunog dahil sa over sustain, nag cacut ng tone. Ang distortion, kahit isang bitaw ng nota at left hand mo lang ang ginagamit mo, napapatunog mo parin ng same volume, di tulad ng fuzz, kailangan both hands ang gamit mo para ma maintain ang volume and tone, if you know what i mean.

Allam ko ang pinagkaiba ng tunog nila pero hindi ko alam kung bakit sila magkaiba. Pero alam kong kung malinis na ang technique mo, hindi ka mahihirapang tumugtog kahit anong effect ang gamitin mo.

[rrralf]

Pareho mabigat ang tunog ng dalawa, ang fuzz ang kinilala na sinaunang distortion noong wala pang distortion, my question is, bakit mas mabibilis ang solo penatonics ko pag gumagamit ng distortion kaysa sa fuzz? An example is, tapping technique,,, pag ginawa mo sa fuzz kailangan perfect ang pag tantsa mo para tumunog ng maayos, di tulad ng distortion, very responsive, mas matunog kahit anong skills ang gamitin, pag fuzz, ang hirap mag solo kasi minsan napipigilan yung tunog dahil sa over sustain, nag cacut ng tone. Ang distortion, kahit isang bitaw ng nota at left hand mo lang ang ginagamit mo, napapatunog mo parin ng same volume, di tulad ng fuzz, kailangan both hands ang gamit mo para ma maintain ang volume and tone, if you know what i mean.

1. If your technique is clean, you'll always sound clean regardless of the effects that you use.
2. Gain.

[treblinkalovescene]

More to do with how the circuit clips your signal, I think. Then of course, there's always your playing. Solution to your problem? Run a TS-type pedal before your fuzz to tighten it out and make it more responsive.

[bugoy]

mag multi effects like POD XTL ka na lang at ibanez prestige tapos problema mo panigurado linis mo mag solo he he he he he

[dirtybluesplayer]

More to do with how the circuit clips your signal, I think. Then of course, there's always your playing. Solution to your problem? Run a TS-type pedal before your fuzz to tighten it out and make it more responsive.

I tried this one, pero humina yung volume at nagka noise, yung fuzz kahit anong pinch or natural harmonics ang gawin ko, wala talaga, that's why duda ako. I'm a little fast solo clean player, ok ang speed sa clean channels, sa fuzz pag nagsolo ako, parang nawawalan ako ng gana kasi parang kahit anong bilis o sayaw ng daliri ko, hanngang dun lang, sa distortion, kung anong speed solo ko sa clean, ganun din kabilis sa distortion, o minsan mas mabilis pa dahil sa fizz sound na karugtong nito. Di kaya panget lang yung big muff ko kaya ganun? Mas madali sakin mag srv and hendrix pag od or distortion ang gamit ko, especially pag voodoo chile ang napagtripan ko.

[MrGobots]

Fuzz = hair.

[teleclem]

What type of fuzz are you referring to? I've found that they react very differently.

[emil_murillo]

Fuzz circuit vs. distorion circuit (let's dig deep to see the difference):

• fuzz pedal circuit is basically an overdriven amplifier stage (gain=10-100) without any diode clipping which means that the clipping level is not limited (hence, sometimes they were called "limiters") as to a classic fuzz circuit is suggesting which results to a raw overdriven amplifier-fuzzy sound..
• that is why fuzz pedals enthusiast tends to favor the classic one's because some fuzz pedal achieve a "true square wave".. distortion (hard clipping) on the other hand are a bit sloping square wave resulting in a heavily clipped hard edged sound
• eventually new lines of fuzz circuit does have diode clipping

[inot1105]

sound of course... what else?...
with it, it depends on how you use it.

BR & God bless

[dirtybluesplayer]

Same growl and roar but big difference, my fuzz is a ehx big muff and my distortion is boss mega distortion

[tsunamic]

siguro its just a matter of preference, may songs na di mo mababagayan ng fuzz pedals, i mean pwede pero mas mataas ang percentage ng achievement mo to that certain songs pag yang md2 mo ang gamit mo. use the md2 instead. then use your fuzz kung may mga songs ka naman na pwedeng bagayan.

[shredmaestrobri]

Pareho mabigat ang tunog ng dalawa, ang fuzz ang kinilala na sinaunang distortion noong wala pang distortion, my question is, bakit mas mabibilis ang solo penatonics ko pag gumagamit ng distortion kaysa sa fuzz? An example is, tapping technique,,, pag ginawa mo sa fuzz kailangan perfect ang pag tantsa mo para tumunog ng maayos, di tulad ng distortion, very responsive, mas matunog kahit anong skills ang gamitin, pag fuzz, ang hirap mag solo kasi minsan napipigilan yung tunog dahil sa over sustain, nag cacut ng tone. Ang distortion, kahit isang bitaw ng nota at left hand mo lang ang ginagamit mo, napapatunog mo parin ng same volume, di tulad ng fuzz, kailangan both hands ang gamit mo para ma maintain ang volume and tone, if you know what i mean.

Maybe because of the heavy bass frequency. Believe it or not it could actually help your soloing by lowering the bass frequency.

But as tasty said, if you have malinis na technique na, madadala mo rin yun. Though I wouldn't discount the influence of effects. They can pa rin.

[juan_alderete]

basic things you notice when you switched from distortion to fuzz.

- the mids are gone! (not always the case but you know what i mean)
- more clean up power (except the bigmuff  )
- fuzz tend to be more sensitive on your chops, very dynamic
- fuzz has a loose feel.. especially fuzz face types,,
- fuzz has softer attack, faster decay (depends on type of fuzz really)

     

[monkeypunch]

full ang ang fuzz as compare to dist.

[shredmaestrobri]

full ang ang fuzz as compare to dist.

Depends on the distorion.

[sd8450]

What type of fuzz are you referring to? I've found that they react very differently.

+ 1 and many other responses are also on the mark.

In my view, the appropriate thread title should be 'Big difference between my 19xx ehx big muff ____version and my boss mega distortion'.

There are many fuzz type pedals and there are many distortion pedals. There are distortion pedals that owners claim can cover fuzz territory. There are also fuzzes that owners use for distortion and/or overdrive sounds by turning down the fuzz level.

There are also many versions of EHX big muffs with differences among them and so it would help to specify which one is being referred to.

The particular guitar and amp being used contribute to the experience and this is why the specific guitar and amp are also usually mentioned in gear tests and shootouts as reference. For example, high gain amps and hot humbuckers smooths out differences (due to compression of signals) while a cleanish amp (low to mid gain amp) and single coil combination would react differently to the same input (more dynamics).   

[dirtybluesplayer]

i now switched the style of uses between my fuzz and distortion, yung ehx bigmuff ko ginawa ko nalang pang rhythm kasi mas garapal ang tunog ng fuzz ko pag dating sa rhythm compare sa md-2 ko, so yung md-2 ko, pinang sosolo ko nalang, kasi masyadong garapal ang treble ng big muff at parang naka noise gate kaya ang hirap mag solo guitar, as of now kasi grunge and garage rock ang playing style ko na medyo may long sustain leads/solo