Thanks for getting the SuperFuzz out to me so fast. I was having some problems at first, but it turned out to be a dying battery. I've been looking for a good Superfuzz clone for a couple of years now. I'm a bass player and the closest thing I've had access to has been the Guyatone "The Fuzz". It sounds pretty good (especially for it's $60 price tag) but pushing a bass signal through it makes it sound a little thin. Thin doesn't really work for my purposes. I'm running a five string bass through a 400 watt tube amp which is setup to compress a little bit but not distort the signal like an SVT. With the SuperFuzz set to "2" it just sounds massive. It stays girthy all the way to the bottom of my low B string. I just engage the bright switch on my preamp to let through a bit more highs than I would for my clean tone and it sounds perfect. It actually sounds better than my favorite recorded Superfuzz bass tones (like on the old records by The Soft Machine and some of the Beastie Boy songs from my youth). You may not know it but you guys have made the ultimate bass fuzz, at least to some people's tastes. Probably not for everyone, but for a high gain aggressive bass fuzz like I've been looking for you guys have hit the nail on the head. I'll be curious to check out your take on the univibe.

It is astonishingly amazing! Finally I have my old sound back in my possession!!!

This is the Equal of my 1960's Crown, (Shin-ei) fuzz box in sound. It is superior to it with the upgrades you two have made to it, ridding the noise created by the old boxes, yet maintaining the exact sounds.

I don't remember you mentioning that the battery on/off switch is no longer part of the Balance or Expander pot (which one, I forget!), but has been replaced with the now standard guitar input jack. I cannot tell you how many dead batteries I found that I had killed, simply by not turning the pot off on my old Crown. The LED, while is totally unnecessary as one knows when this unit is on, coolly glows on top this black box. Styling. The battery port is a great solution to removing the top from the bottom for replacement. And yes, my Crown was built like a tank, but this SuperFuzz is built like a tank for the 21st century. Also, it looks so much cooler than the modern pedals.

Hey, I am a month away of being a 60 year-old balding long-hair, 45 of which I have played guitar, and I love this sound. I have never heard a usually sweet sounding 3 note Major 7 chord played on the high strings sound so desirably dissonant as the one this box creates. The two note double stops are awesome and strong in harmony and, once they become bent and released ever so slowly, they just yell out for mercy. There simply is no other pedal that creates these sounds and yet remains completely playable and controllable.

Jim "The Amp Surgeon's" Note: The Shin-ei branded pedals used a battery interlock circuit on the "Input" jack, just like the Wattson Classic SuperFuzz. However, some of the rebadged pedals which Shin-ei produced for other companies, including Univox and Crown, had a power switch on the "Expander" pot. If you didn't remember to turn this pot all the way down until it "clicks" then your battery would run dry, even if the pedal was disconnected from the guitar.

This is one bad mofo fuzz! Tone position 2 is where it's at for me with it's huge bloated mid-scooped tones. Tone 1 could be useful for cutting through a dense recording or getting a nice ratty sounding "When Doves Cry" intro type tone. The Watson boys did a great job. It's a solid build and the 12 page manual(!) is surprisingly well thought out and written. There is a bit of octave-fuzz to the sound also, but that didn't really come through as clearly in the vid. All in all, I'm stoked to add a SuperFuzz to my pedal stable.

Check out his video demo at Google Video.

Wow! The Wattson SuperFuzz is nasty with fuzz. It is a veritable beast that can be trained but not tamed.

Since I had never owned a SF, I had to get a reference tone to compare it to, so a little google helped me with that. As soon as I did that I realized I had heard this fuzz for many years on my favorite old 60's and 70's tunes.

Reading the manual you will find there were three incarnations (bona-fide fuzz freaks are already well familiar with this) and a bit different tone for each. The original Shin-Ei and earlier Univox versions had their own unique sound, because they had a two transistor circuit that adds an octave up to the fuzz ( I have really become a big freak for this effect and the SF gets it in spades). However then a trimpot was added sometime in the late 60's early 70's which allowed the octave circuit to become intentionally unbalanced to get more variation. This also changed the tone (because resistance from the trimmer changed the bias for the octave circuit), which some fuzzheads didnt like so many old ones have the trimpot removed and jumper wires added.

Anyway, to remedy this and still have the capability of the unbalanced transistors AND retain the tone, Wattson reduced the value of some of the other resistors in the circuit in order to compensate for the trimmer, thus allowing you to choose between the Shin-Ei, earlier AND later version of the SuperFuzz. So in this one pedal you can get all three incarnations. Very ingenious.

When Jim dropped it off last nite, (Imagine the maker offering to bring the pedal to your house!) I plugged it in to my little tweed Champ and was impressed with how it sounded right out of the box. In fact, I enjoyed playing it so much at the factory setting I havent even gotten around to the trim yet. But so far I am in love with this sound. Wattson enginnered the pedal so that you can adjust the trimmer while the casing is off so you dont have to adjust it, put it together, listen, take it apart, adjust, put it together, listen, etc.

Will add more when I have checked it our more thoroughly, but suffice to say it definitely does whats supposed to do. Also I have found that getting that upper octave effect become the most pronounced when you use the neck p'up ('Buckers are best), roll the tone knob back, and play above the twelfth fret and let notes ring (no shredder riffs), also bending double stops are very cool. SuperFuzz freaks will not be dissappointed.

MG

Jim "The Amp Surgeon"'s Comments: I was going to a friend's gig in Novato, and was passing thround emjee's town, so I offered to drop the pedal off on the way... just so everyone doesn't get the idea I'm going to personally deliver your pedal, too!

Ok... finally took some time to play with my new toy!

This thing is KILLER!!!! Love this pedal. Sounds just like old Shin El super fuzzes you've heard on so many 60's/70'd fuzz records! In fact it is so fun to play, I think I'll give my beloved vintage Foxx some much need rest and put to this to work on my board.

Like I suspected, the octave is no where near as pronounced as on the Foxx, but it has a very cool sitar-esque quality which is really cool and quirky.

These guys did there homework. Stock the internal trimmer comes set to the Shin-ei, and if you want to dial down the octave just turn the trimmer down a bit.

But I'm keeping mine just the way it is. Love the octave and I'm having a blast nailing so many superfuzz tone melodies I've heard over the years.

If you don't have a Superfuzz... this is the one to get!

"This fuzz rules. Turned it on, instant rip-roaring tone. Pure mojo!"

Madison Parker
Annapolis, Maryland

Subject: WOW

I just had the chance to play the pedal when I was home for about 5 min. I plugged in my big muff as well to compare the 2 and man,....your pedal blew my mind!

After I turned the volume level up I could not believe it... I was using tone 2, and man was it the thickest fuzz I have ever heard... It made the big muff sound like a little tiny muff! haha..

I play stoner rock / fuzz doom and this is my new pedal for sure..

I seriously was shaking my head all the way down the street b/c I was so impressed!..man..

peace!!!!
rich

"Great fuzz! One of my all time favorites, and I've owned basically every old school fuzz out there!"

S. Rosenberg
Reno, Nevada

My Wattson SuperFuzz arrived today. This is the one. The years of searching are over. I haven't owned a Univox SuperFuzz in a long time and have been buying every pedal I can find that claims to sound like the original. This is the first one that actually does. It looks almost exactly like the original, but is built a lot better. The sound is smooth like butter and at $150 USD, it's a better choice than some beat up $400 eBay job.

Read Jon's other review at NoiseGuide.

Miguel Andrade