What is Fuzz?
Fuzz is a wonderful rich form of distortion unlike that of regular distortions and overdrive. It is a sound that reflects the time of its birth. It is the sound of the transistor and a noisier new technology of the post war era. An onomatopoeia it sounds like its name. From a little sizzle to a big noisy immutable wall of sustaining sound. That is fuzz. Sine Wave The science of fuzz is not as complicated as you might think. Fuzz is created, in the case of an effect box, when the signal is boosted then sent through a clipping circuit. The signal is boosted by a single transistor or multiple transistors. Most modern effects use chips which are just transistors and their supporting component built into a single device. Most opamp chips used in fuzz pedals contain multiple transistors to amplify the signal. The boosted signal from the chip or transistors goes into two or three diodes that do the clipping. Two diodes is known as symmetrical clipping and three asymmetrical, which is consider
