FFM2 Germanium Fuzz Face Mini - Germanium Transistor Review

Kudos to Dunlop for their line of Fuzz Face Minis!

Dunlop's series of pedal-board-friendly-sized Fuzz Faces give players a selection of several historic iterations of this, arguably the greatest, of all guitar pedals. I chose the Germanium FFM2 because of it's old-school flavor. It'll change from a dangerous-sounding spitting and splattering to a warm, pleasant grunge, with the turn of your guitar's volume knob. Placing it early… read more in the pedal chain is important, but it plays well with the pedals ahead of it. Love it!

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Everything you'd expect out of a Ge Fuzz.

First the bad: Bit of excess glue on the edges of the rubber stomp pad. The light on it is annoyingly bright. The good: Only tested this with my offset mustang with 60s style strat pickups, Laney 10w tube amp set to max gain. Volume and gain slightly backed off from max on the fuzzface. Volume knob on the guitar goes from clean to dirty to fuzz, and the clean tones/mild over drive… read more tones are beautiful. Warm, lush, articulate. Retains the quality of the strings and individual notes very well. Very dynamic. Fuzz is amazing classic fuzz. Not much to say here, you've heard this sound before. Stacks very well in front of the dude. That combo can get pretty savage. Stacks well in front of Julia. Have only operated it on battery thus far, was expecting this pedal to add a lot of noise but that is not the case. Less noisy than my other drive pedals (on battery at least). With guitar vol maxed on the neck pick up, the fuzz almost becomes muddy, but doesn't get there on my guitar. I suspect it might not be a good pairing for a darker setup. Recommend for classic fuzz tones/colorful clean and overdrive tones on low output single coils. And of course, Sweetwater's service impeccable as always.

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Very happy

I have a silicon fuzz pedal from another manufacturer and its harsh, shrilly, "plasticky" tone sounds terrible and is not usable. It was a waste of money and it will never be on my board. Unlike that other manufacturer"s pedal, I am able to dial in a good sound with this germanium FFM2. A little bit of tinkering with the knobs was required to get there. It's not all good. A good… read more sound with a fuzz pedal isn't automatic. I've learned that the guitar"s volume is rolled back most of the time when using a fuzz pedal, except for lead stuff. It is amazing how rolling back the guitar volume changes the dynamics. The gear nuts say that this germanium pedal is strong in the midrange. To me, strong mids is always a good thing. I boost the high end just a tad with a GE-7 and it sounds like a million bucks! My strat + medium gain tube amp + GE-7 + the FFM2 = heaven!! I was after that Billy G fuzz sound and I found it with this pedal. Adding chorus into the mix will help nail his Sam and Dave cover and Pearl Necklace killer leads. I think that this is the first time that I've ever given a product five stars.

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Great Germanium Fuzz

Great little pedal. Work, organic fuzz sound.

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Just Right

Its just what I needed and wanted for my rig, a great big hairy sound that responds extremely well to backing off volume or pic, or to digging in hard. Seems to be extremely solid in construction with a very smooth feel to the controls. I like to just crank it up!

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