~ Snow White Fuzz R and D Review thread ~

[Jagattack]

heheh yes Mr Picard led us down the silly path a bit which is always welcomed here

Well this is silly - I didn't realise it was backwards! I've been puzzling over that for a day and a half. Thanks for helping me out.

Honestly I'm not dumb, think I over complicated it by looking for some sort of code, or eyes out of focus thing.

[I am Incinerator]

Great Scots I have GAS now after reading this thread in detail.

Like Realfi, I haven't been much of a fuzz kind of guy...this maybe the one that could sneak up on me. I've had a '69 for a few years that I could just never really find my cup of tea in.

Might have to wait though...I have a gretsch on the way...and I'm really gassing hard for either a low wattage 6V6 (Falcon, Swart or a Magnatone...maybe an oahu or a 6G2 princeton) or a 6G6-B bassman variant.

[Donner]

heheh yes Mr Picard led us down the silly path a bit which is always welcomed here

Well this is silly - I didn't realise it was backwards! I've been puzzling over that for a day and a half. Thanks for helping me out.

Honestly I'm not dumb, think I over complicated it by looking for some sort of code, or eyes out of focus thing.

well dont feel too bad , I think we were pretty blown away and the mind says 'no cant be'

[cabo]

after a few weeks with one,,Im still running the SWF up front here,,,I have found that running into the LRT or even RRB at lower settings seems to really helped to compensate for what some might view as not enough treble/ or range out of the Nature knob.
Also running at higher voltages made the SWF much more appealing to me overall.
The SWF>HB as in Donners video also works very well.

good luck to all in the drawing

[cabo]

Cabo, from the discussions I think I know how the Folk Fuzz fits with the PPF and the CAF (it is kind of an ancestor fuzz sound to both). I have seen some comparison of the FF to the SWF but I am not quite as clear as to the differences/similarities. Now that you have spent a bit more time with the SWF do you have any thoughts on comparing it with the FF? I know that the FF has a bit more treble but is there anything else that strongly differentiates the two? Thanks

Sure, the SWF cleans up a bit quicker with the volume knob, and obviously the picking dynamics clean up better too. Ive only been using it at 18v,,actually never tried the Folk with any higher than 9V, not sure if that would change things in comparing.
The SWF does really well at covering more useable range.
The FF has a bigger bottom end,, more in the low mids. Also has more buzz/fuzz , hairier in the treble range as you mentioned,,more of a fuzz.
Im using the FF primarily as a fuzz where as the SWF Im using as boost, drive, fuzz, depending on the gain amount.
They do have the same type of natural vintage sounding fuzz and I like stacking them both into the RRB, but different enough where you could easily tell them apart.

[Christer]

I was lucky to pick up SWF#005. Unfortunately I haven't been able to give my impression of it until now.

The SWF is a "open" and varm fuzz which is very responsive to your picking. By rolling off the guitar volume it cleans up. I prefer to run it on 18V instead of 9V as it gives a wider range.

I have also tried to stack it with HBOD, RRB and PPF both on front of the SWF and aftter it. My favourite is to run it RRB->SWF->PPF->HBOD. I ususally set the SWF 10,4,4, the RRB to push it a bit 9-11, PPF 11,7,11 & HBOD 11,11,12.

The SWF also stacks well with a OD set to a mild boost in front of it

I have tried the SWF with both a EJ Strat and a Gibsson ES333 with 57 h/b through either a THD Bivalve with a 2x12 THD cabinet or a Fender BluesDeville (2x12), both amplifiers set clean.

[Realfi]

Cabo, from the discussions I think I know how the Folk Fuzz fits with the PPF and the CAF (it is kind of an ancestor fuzz sound to both). I have seen some comparison of the FF to the SWF but I am not quite as clear as to the differences/similarities. Now that you have spent a bit more time with the SWF do you have any thoughts on comparing it with the FF? I know that the FF has a bit more treble but is there anything else that strongly differentiates the two? Thanks

Sure, the SWF cleans up a bit quicker with the volume knob, and obviously the picking dynamics clean up better too. Ive only been using it at 18v,,actually never tried the Folk with any higher than 9V, not sure if that would change things in comparing.
The SWF does really well at covering more useable range.
The FF has a bigger bottom end,, more in the low mids. Also has more buzz/fuzz , hairier in the treble range as you mentioned,,more of a fuzz.
Im using the FF primarily as a fuzz where as the SWF Im using as boost, drive, fuzz, depending on the gain amount.
They do have the same type of natural vintage sounding fuzz and I like stacking them both into the RRB, but different enough where you could easily tell them apart.

Interesting.

For a gig this week I used the SWF post Timmy as a creamy lead tone but it did sort of leave me thinking I could use something a bit fuzzier like the folk.

The SWF did work really nicely as a creamy sort of lead tone but in my hands at least it sounds like an overdrive/fuzz.