The story behind the fuzz pedal’s creation is well known to most guitarists, but it goes a little something like this. The effect was born on July 12, 1960, while country superstar Marty Robbins was ...

60 years ago, Maestro’s first stompbox – the FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone – was launched. Kickstarting a revolution in sound it was the progenitor of all fuzz pedals Employing three germanium transistors this ...

As well splitting a guitar input over three separate fuzz pots, the variable frequency control and resonance switch of Fairfield Circuitry’s new Four Eyes Crossover Fuzz pedal help make it one ...

Some of the most recognizable guitar sounds in rock music were created with the fuzz pedal. The predecessor of distortion and overdrive pedals, it alters your guitar’s sound wave into a square wave, ...

A look at the evolution of the technologies that give rock its signature sound Fifty years ago, a faulty connection in a mixing board gave birth to fuzz, which is a term of art. Although it came to ...

Glenn Snoddy, the man credited with inventing the distorted, fuzzy electric guitar effect that became known as "the Nashville sound," died on Monday (May 21) at his home in Murfreesboro. He was 96 ...