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kysrsoze

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3. Cheap amps, actually. Specifically the Fender Champ

Reply to Nitram (Reply #2)

Sat May 26, 2018, 11:58 PM

May 2018

They would push the guitar’s signal too hard (particularly humbuckers) and turn the amp’s volume too loud, and the amp was unable to stay clean. It was a design flaw that created the distortion/overdrive and companies like Marshall started to build on that Fender circuit to create even more gain/distortion. I guess you could say fuzz and distortion are in the same realm. Not quite the same, but similar.

RIP, Snoddy. Ingenious invention.

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