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Gibson Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-tone. The Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone was the first widely marketed fuzz distortion guitar and bass effect. Introduced in 1962, it achieved widespread popularity in 1965 after the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards prominent use of the FZ-1 on the group's hit, "Satisfaction".
The company's most popular series is made up of compact guitar effects pedals, called the Micro series. The design of the pedals revolve around a normal sized knob in the center that controls a main function, and two to three smaller knobs that control other functions. Most of the pedals are made to be similar to other popular pedals.
A collection of effects pedals, including several distortions: a MXR Distortion + (top row, second from left), and a Pro Co Rat, Arbiter Fuzz Face, and Electro-Harmonix Big Muff (all middle row, from left). Distortion pedals are a type of effects unit designed to add distortion to an audio signal to create a warm, gritty, or fuzzy character.
Source Audio is a guitar effects pedal company that was founded in Woburn, Massachusetts in 2006. They produce modular effects pedals for electric guitar and bass, such as the Nemesis Delay, Ventris Dual Reverb, and Collider Delay+Reverb, as well as the C4 Synth, a modular rack synthesizer in pedal format, the Aftershock Bass Distortion, and the EQ2, a 10-band parametric equalizer with a plug ...
A footswitch pedal such as the "A/B" pedal routes a guitar signal to an amplifier or enables a performer to switch between two guitars, or between two amplifiers. This footswitch controls an effect (distortion), but it is not an effects pedal as the case does not contain effects circuitry; it is just a switch.
The Guitar Rig environment is a modular system, providing capabilities for multiple amplifiers, effects pedals and rack mounted hardware.Primarily designed for electric guitar and bass, the software uses amplifier modeling to allow real-time digital signal processing in both standalone and DAW environments via plug-in (VST/DXi/RTAS/AU).
Hayden is a British company which designs hand-wired electric guitar amplifiers. It is a sister company to Ashdown Engineering, which makes high-quality, hand-wired, vacuum-tube (or valve in Britain) amplifiers in England. At the end of 2007 it was announced that Dave Green, Matamp's chief engineer, would be joining Hayden full-time as 'Valve ...
The DS-1 was the first ever distortion guitar effect pedal manufactured by Boss An auditory example of the distortion effect with the clean signal shown first.. Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a "fuzzy", "growling", or "gritty" tone.