Crappy/Cool Pedal Alert!

Last time around I expressed my undying love for the Nady DS50 Big Muff clone. It may have looked as if it was modeled after a 3rd grader's drawing of a foot, but it sounded like Rams Head heaven.
So this time around I would like to introduce you to my latest find: the Ibanez Soundtank series FZ5 "60s Fuzz". Its a Big Muff with midrange in an enclosure that is one step above a Silly Putty egg.
I'm smitten.

And just like the Nady DS50, it is destined to appear on the upcoming Heads recordings.
Boutique pedals are for chumps. Soundtank fuzz is where its at, baby!
One last thing: I almost forgot to show you the amp I bought today that I'm gonna use for some fuzzy leads and what not:

Its a 1954 Supro 1604. One knob. Cute as a button and ready for fuzz!

Over and Way Out,

John

The Continuing Adventures of Being A Head

Work continues on the upcoming Heads album. Guitars are piling up like its going out of style. Phasers, echoplex, backwards guitar, forwards guitar, mellotrons, E Bow and even some deliberate iPhone interference. If it makes a noise, its going on the record.
And speaking of noise, I just got my hands on two more weapons of mass audio destruction to add to the mix.
First one is a Korg X911 guitar synth circa 1981. Makes your guitar sound like C3PO being raped by a fax machine. Thanks to Mark Murphy for letting me borrow this utterly useless hunk of guitar wrecking pleasure.

Second one is the Nady DS50 Distortion Sustainer.

Its a Big Muff. Only better. More bottom end than a vintage Rams Head, more sizzle than a Civil War era Muff AND its available at Sears and Target for the cost of a bag of reefer. Best Big Muff I've played since the Op Amp version I used in Monster Magnet. And check out just how ugly this thing is!

You know you want one.