Could have been called Mr. Crunchy, or Grind-R-Us. This pedal is uncommon in its shape, availability, and sound quality. For lead playing the Fuzzz Boxx won't make your solos sing or sustain miraculously, but for rhythm chording, crunch and power chords we've never heard anything quite like it. Check it out: Most fuzz overdrive pedals add some buzzing noise amid the grind. It's usually a fine, semi-smooth quality, with drive and / or distortion added. The Sam Ash Fuzzz Boxx pedal has a quality of "larger" multiple grinding elements slightly out of sync with each other. That seems to be the reason that singing sustain is replaced with pristeen crunch.
All that gets lost when you floor it; yet live, you can hear some silence in with the grinding. It's like they took the fine buzz out, and only left the rough schrapnel in the hopper. Heard in the sound file provided, the Fuzzz Boxx is teamed with a Les Paul, a '68 Plexi-Marshall & 4x12 cabinet. Thick as two bricks the wide way.
We've got other fuzzes that are as big, and bad sounding, and some sing, and sustain better, but we salute the unique grind of the FB. Hard to find, but they exist. Saw one on a Web site for a store in Japan; of all places, called "my first guitar". Now we know what Godzilla really wants. Surreal!
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