Tuesday, August 12, 2008
1969 John Hornby Skewes "SHATTERBOX"
Look at her. She so pretty sitting there all shinny in that lovely gold paintwork with that far out silk screening...lovely eh? Sounds great eh? One of the cult classics?...well yeah but she sounds fucking God awful!! And I mean AWFUL! Shittybox more like it or Shit-yer-box...thats kinda what you do when you hear the damn thing for the first time. I so so sooooo wanted this to be cool like Zonk Machine cool but nay its mid 70's badly biased Fuzz Face cool at best. The fuzz control set anywhere near maximum oscillates like a mental asylum and the treble boost is like running cheese wire across your eyes whilst franticly showering your face with vinegar. Its bad. Not good bad either. I could dig it if it was say like FY-2 bad buts it not. Basically shes the hot girl on the street that spits pee on you as walk by. Looks great but bad oh so bad.
...and no its not the magical Zonk Machine circuit its the Zonk II circuit and a JHS booster...a bloody horrid booster at that.
196?-197? ROSAC NU-FUZZ
Loud, obnoxious, ready for the fight & comin' at ya with a broken bottle and a rusty claw hammer. Yaaa! NU-FUZZ is the shit! Awesome fuzz tones that do to your amplifier that a Tiger Tank would do to a Sinclair C5. Well cool build style too. Don't get me wrong I can't fucking stand goop! Awful shit and quite obviously the work of Satan. The resin encapsulated circuit in these things is a great idea. It must have increased production tenfold and in some ways it bullet proofs the internals of the pedal...unless of course you get a failed part in the resin. Ha har! But notice that the Electrolytic capacitor is NOT in the resin...clever Rosac.
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