MSJ
Unbelievable
I've been trying to hunt down "my" fuzz for years and tried all the major varieties, both stock and modded (including a different Buzzaround clone). Nothing I tried could hit all the sweet spots at once – not scooped, not boomy or fizzy, plenty of mids, ability to run from gnarly to smooth, usable with all sorts of guitars, pickups, and amps – until the Dizzy Buzz.
It took about 5 minutes with the DB to know I'd found exactly what I was looking for. The greatest "violin tone" leads I've ever heard from a fuzz – ever – but it can also rip & roar for chord work, and the unusual Buzzaround tone control works with the bias pot to enable a much wider range of sounds than you'd expect from the average fuzz. None of the blown-out low frequencies or brutal grainy treble you might find in a Fuzz Face, Tone Bender, Muff, Zonk Machine – the Dizzy Buzz is so easy to use and tonally versatile that, while it's most definitely a fuzz, its range and ease of use are more comparable to a distortion than a picky eccentric fuzz circuit.
And though the Dizzy Buzz doesn't require any boosting with pedals earlier in the chain OR preamping with pedals afterward, it DOES work supremely well that way. Absolutely rips with a Klon-type overdrive or treble booster in front, and preposterously great with Tru-Fi's own Colordriver acting as a preamp afterward.
If you love the idea of fuzz, love recorded fuzz tones, love the fuzz sounds other guitarists get, but you've never been able to assemble the perfect combination of guitar + pickups + amp + speakers + other pedals, jump all over the Dizzy Buzz. It'll give you all the early Fripp "Moonchild" or "Sailor's Tale" tones you could want, but it's far beyond a mere recreation of a certain specialized sound.
Of the many, many fuzzes I've tried, in all kinds of rigs and musical situations, the Dizzy Buzz is unequivocally the best. Pick up a Buzz and a Colordriver, use them separately and then together, and you'll never need another fuzz.
