Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Fuzz

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IVE READ ALOT OF REVIEWS ON THIS PEDAL AND IVE COME TO A CONCLUSION. ALOT OF YOU GUYS DONT KNOW CRAP ABOUT USING A FUZZ PEDAL!!! THIS IS THE ROUND SAUCER TYPE JIMI FUZZ IN BLACK. SILICON CHIPS. HERES THE DEAL. YOU MUST USE A FUZZ LIKE THIS IN FRONT OF AN OVERDRIVEN MARSHALL FOR IT TO SOUND RIGHT. I TRIED IT ON FENDERS AND IT CRAPS OUT THE TONE, BUT IN FRONT OF MY MARSHALL IT ROCKS. TOTAL JIMI.AND I HAVE A JIMI TRIBUTE BAND AND GET COMPLIMENTS ON THE TONE OF MY RIG ALL THE TIME. PUT IT IN FRONT OF A UNI-VIBE AND YOU GOT IT BABY.THERE IS A BUT THOUGH. DO NOT TURN THE FUZZ ALL THE WAY UP. KEEP IT AROUND 2:00 OR SO.USE THE VOLUME ON THE GUITAR TO CONTROL THE FUZZ.GRANTED THE LITTLE MXR BOXES DONT SOUND SO HOT BUT THE ROUND ONES DO IF USED RIGHT. THESE TYPE OF PEDALS WERE DESISNED WITH MARSHALLS IN MIND!!! IF YOU CAN FIND ONE OF THESE OLD REISSUES GET IT AND USE IT RIGHT AND YOUWONT BE DISSAPOINTED. I PROMISE.REMEMBER IT IS WHAT IT IS ITS THE MOST PRIMITAVE DESIGN.

NEVER CALLED THEM I WORK ON MY OWN PRDALS

IVE TRIED MANY TIIMES TO GET ONE ON EBAY AND KEEP GETTING OUT BIDED

Very easy to use. Plug and play. A volume knob and a fuzz knob.

I tried this using a American Standard Strat through a 1969 Fender Twin Reverb. The pedal is very noisy at most settings. The fuzz is very square wavey and has no smoothness at all. I think Jimi would have hated this pedal!!!! Even playing with the tone controls on the Strat doesn't smooth out the sound. In fact the tone knobs have no effect at all on the sound which is frustsating to say the least.
On most good fuzzes the sound will clean up as you turn the guitars volume control down. Not this one. The sound stays very fuzzy and the volume drops an incredible amount even turning down to 8. The sound still doesn't clean up at 3!

Seems reliable. I've only has it a day.

Don't know.

IN comparing this my original 1969 Vox Tone Bender, The Tone Bender destroys this. The Tone Bender is much smoother and has a better overall sound although not as much fuzz. The Tone Bender cleans up crystal clear if the guitars volume control is turned down to nine. I don't know if I would buy this again, but I am planning oon having Analog Mike do a mod on it to see if it improves it any.

Very easy. Theres only 2 knobs. You can get allmost any simi-distorted tone easy.

great for bass but can get a little wild when the fuzz is maxed out. great sounding by yourself on a bass solo when you want to sound like a guitar.

vey dependable. solid. i allways use it without a backup. I have'nt mistreated it so i dont kow if it will last forever

no use for it

i play every style with a limited amount of cash so i have to have tweaking effects in my sound to make it sound like different basses. you need this and an EKO bass if you really want a primus, les claypool sound. real snapy on the treble side pops. i cant live without it.

2 knobs: level and fuzz. Turn the dials. No manual (used). Easy to get a "good" sound? Hmmm... not for me. This is the harshest grittiest nasty noisemaker I've owned. I like it. No smooth tones out of this. Square wave buzz-saw farty sounds all the way.

7 guitars, 5 amps, about 20 other effects. It doesn't matter. It's noisy. It's harsh. It's grating. Volume has to be at least around 75-80% to compare with your clean signal volume. It cuts-out a lot like there's a bad connection inside. I talked to a music-store salesman friend of mine, and he said they ALL sound like that. I use it only for recording. It's a great texture tool, but worthless live. I think the fuzz might get smoother as you turn it up all the way.
Kids, if you think this will be the cool thing to blow 'em away... It won't. It sounds bad. This is OK in small doses. Really, save your money- try it before you buy it.

I don't trust it. It's in a solid little MXR case, but God only knows what evil lurks inside it.
Wouldn't use it on a gig. It never even occured to me.
I should mention it is in "very good" to "like new" condition. Sound must've disgusted whoever owned it before me.

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I got this as a studio tool, to throw in the occasional retro-fuzz sound. Dunlop should be ashamed for putting Jimi's name on this thing. I probably wouldn't replace it unless I found another nearly-new one in the $25-$35 range. I love its nastiness. I hate its nastiness. The Hendrix Fuzz is an interesting departure, but hardly a standard tone-shaper (more like a tone wrecker). I usually prefer those sweet singing bluesy overdrives; TS-9, Daddy-O, BluesBreaker, OD-1, etc. This is not even a raging metal distortion. It's just a nasty buzzsaw. It can be cool, but is usually abrasive.

This pedal is incredibly simple to use. Turn up the volume and the fuzz all the way and that's that.

The pedal is of course very noisy, as that's the point. Single notes sound great, but chords tend to get lost. But you don't buy a fuzz pedal the size of a saucer to get rich, harmonic sustain. The main problem I have encountered is occasionally when the effect is turned on, the signal volume is drastically lowered. This really sucks, cause you're all stoked to turn it on and let it rip, and you signal gets quieter.

I wouldn't use this for a gig, due to the aforementioned volume problem. I would have to be constantly adjusting the volume, I love using it for recording, it gives an incredibly fuzzy sound.

I love its sound, it does exactly what I wanted it to, but I can't stand its volume weirdness.

Very easy to use

The effect is VERY noisy, but that isn't unusual for this type of fuzz. In my opinion, the "Jimi Hendrix" effects by Dunlop are crap. I sold this effect and bought the Roger Mayer Classic Fuzz which sounds far superior. Also, the Dunlop Dallas Arbeiter Fuzz would be an excellent choice; it sounds very close to the RM fuzz or an original (I had the opportunity to compare all four side by side and the JH fuzz was the big loser...all the others were great!).

I wouldn't buy it again, I would save my money and put it towards a more authentic fuzz like the Dunlop DA Fuzz Face reissue. The JH fuzz is not a terrible effect and it sounds OK, I've just played through fuzz's that were closer to the "Hendrix" sound and I prefer them.

This pedal may take you a while to figure out. It has a seemingly simple layout, volume and fuzz knobs, but it doesn't seem as though there is any boost until you peg the volume and turn the fuzz control past 3 oclock. At this point the guitar is at the same volume bypassed or fuzzed.

This little box will give you a veritable butt load of flavors. A tweak of your volume knob, on the guit, will give you a totally different sound but it does wierd stuff to the actual volume.

It's a dunlop, similar to the dallas arbiter, throw it out your window, it'll still play

Although is plays a mind game with the volume, it has a great, versitile fuzz sound. If nothing but the original will do go for it! I'd buy it again.