The KarenX Fuzz Demands to be Heard

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Eddie Rifkind makes effects pedals, and has carved out a nice little niche around dirt pedals with vintage legacy, nicely appointed with refinements you want to see in this century. The KarenX Fuzz is a combination of circuits, tweaked to his liking... and mine. Give it a listen.
Chapters:
0:00 - Demo Jam
1:34 - What It Is
2:44 - Range of Gain
3:38 - My Signal Chain
4:42 - The EQ
6:45 - On The Inside
8:16 - Variations
9:58 - Wrapup

Пікірлер: 27

@TheBoardGarage 7 ай бұрын

The Karen series of pedals, and their Klaren overdrive are hilarious. I’m very content with my RambleFX Twin Bender, but seeing this fuzz pedal did make me smirk at the fact that these kinds of artistic licenses are being taken on such a weird choice of canvas. Cheers.

@amylou7991 7 ай бұрын

Hope it was a love letter written on scented paper, they're the best kind. Great vid!

@fedir_sh 7 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for the fuzz! Nice review )))))

@erifkind 7 ай бұрын

Beautiful sounding tracks at all gain levels on this demo. Incredibly informative as always. You are the best, Jeff 🤘🤘🤘

@StompboxBreakdown 7 ай бұрын

Aww thank you Eddie!!

@danielmcdill 7 ай бұрын

Eddie Rifkind pedals rule!.. I've got all of them .. they always win when I'm trying to find the right drive for what ever the project is... Ken and the Klaren are at the top of the pile...

@al271987 7 ай бұрын

That’s a cool fuzz! I love the Bandaxall style tone stacks. I should probably get around to picking up one of Eddie’s pedals. I mean, I did buy his old CE-5 from him off Reverb (and he gave me a great deal!), but I mean the pedals he actually makes.

@marcofioravanti4176 7 ай бұрын

Why isn´t already a Musky clone out there...! ;-D

@StompboxBreakdown 7 ай бұрын

I see what you did there!

@michaelfowler3187 7 ай бұрын

The onset of clipping was a little on the harsher buzzier side from what I could tell but that being a very common sound I'm not knocking it- it's great for texture and less subtle sounds, but you showed that this can play nice and subtle too. Fuzz should always come with a sense of humor because it is a ridiculous sound

@Guitar_Ted 7 ай бұрын

Amp sim and effects (fuzz) in front? I hope to find out about the new Boss IR2 soon. I have it on pre-order. I've got a nice Fuzz Face based pedal from Reeves Electro I will put in front of it and we'll see..... This pedal has some wonky graphics, but I did like the woody tone you got out of it. The Warhawk sounded almost like a semi-hollow body there with this pedal.

@MYGAS21 7 ай бұрын

Do you find the note definition when you play chords through this pedal, impressive for a fuzz?

@StompboxBreakdown 7 ай бұрын

For single notes, yeah. After a while it got easy to kinda ride that threshold for singing sustain. But typical of just about any fuzz or dirt pedal, the more energy you put through the wire, the more it’s gonna bloom into buzz.

@MYGAS21 7 ай бұрын

@@StompboxBreakdown Of course, but in Fuzzes that threshold is usually very very low and go buzzy very very fast. SO in comparison with the norm what do you think of THIS guy?

@waynegram8907 7 ай бұрын

What is the impedance trim pot at on the schematic?

@StompboxBreakdown 7 ай бұрын

I don’t have a schematic for this pedal. The one I showed is for a Fuzz Face.

@waynegram8907 7 ай бұрын

@@StompboxBreakdown I thought you had the other schematics of the pedals that used an impedance trim pot

@erifkind 7 ай бұрын

The trim pot is 100k and usually set to halfway, or roughly 50k resistance. There’s a lot of room for subtle adjustments.

@MoncoField 7 ай бұрын

Holy hell, that has to be the worst graphics and font on a pedal ever. Its embarrassingly bad lol. Cool sounds from it though. Fuzz pedals with more EQ abilities are always the best imo. If you already haven't, i reccomend checking out the Keeley Fuzz bender, and the Crazy tube circuits "Motherload". The motherload is hands down the best take on a muff/rat ever done