This turned up today.
FuzzHugger SunEater
Edit to add: this pedal has the nicest graphics of any pedal I've owned; it looks fantastic.
Suffice to say: it's fuzzy in an eat your face off kinda way.
To compare it to my other fuzzes:
On the right, a fuzzy treble booster that in this company seems rather tame, but compared to other treble boosters seems quite fierce and fuzzy - it's all about context.
The Mig Muff is an OD and distortion/fuzz, I will only compare the distortion side: at quarter gain it's no more aggressive than the treble booster.At half gain it seems really lightweight in this company. With the gain and bias dimed it's nicely fuzzy and aggressive, but still maybe a tad short of the Suneaters lowest setting (in that ballpark anyways)?
The EQD gets pretty fuzzy pretty quickly and the tone control is by far the best of all these fuzzes. It never gets anywhere near the Suneater; well, with the fuzz to the right (which works in a similar way to a bias knob on other fuzzes) you have alot of bitty breakup.
The Keeley does get quite fuzzy (in fact, very, at all settings), but I've never really worked out the tone control although I've read you need to do a lot of work on the guitar volume and tone knobs with this pedal, so I'm working on that. I actually prefer it on the OD settings at the moment (which is in the general range of the Big Muff distortion/fuzz, so it's OD and then some).
All these fuzzes are very different from one another, so no direct comparisons are particularly accurate or possible, imho. Each pedal would take a lot of playing around to get used to and find their sweetspots aswell.
The Suneater is fierce. I'm not sure what to make of it; even on the lowest fuzz settings I was worried I'd freak the neighbours out and get complaints - the noise just seems one of those boneshaker types that even on low volume would travel through space and time to cause damage. I've just used it clean on the VOX at low volumes with the tele, but I suspect this fuzz may want a dirty tube base and some volume (this might be true of most fuzzes?) to really shine - I could imagine it'd be amazing cranked up high in a club although I'm quite close to the DMZ and you'd have to worry that this could cause a major incident leading to nukes flying around...
I don't know what to say beyond that; I'm feeling a bit shellshocked.
I'm gonna have a little lie down to recover then fire up the Randall and get the SG out... I hope the wife isn't back til much later cause she is gonna freak out (not in a good way).
FuzzHugger SunEater
Edit to add: this pedal has the nicest graphics of any pedal I've owned; it looks fantastic.
Suffice to say: it's fuzzy in an eat your face off kinda way.
To compare it to my other fuzzes:
On the right, a fuzzy treble booster that in this company seems rather tame, but compared to other treble boosters seems quite fierce and fuzzy - it's all about context.
The Mig Muff is an OD and distortion/fuzz, I will only compare the distortion side: at quarter gain it's no more aggressive than the treble booster.At half gain it seems really lightweight in this company. With the gain and bias dimed it's nicely fuzzy and aggressive, but still maybe a tad short of the Suneaters lowest setting (in that ballpark anyways)?
The EQD gets pretty fuzzy pretty quickly and the tone control is by far the best of all these fuzzes. It never gets anywhere near the Suneater; well, with the fuzz to the right (which works in a similar way to a bias knob on other fuzzes) you have alot of bitty breakup.
The Keeley does get quite fuzzy (in fact, very, at all settings), but I've never really worked out the tone control although I've read you need to do a lot of work on the guitar volume and tone knobs with this pedal, so I'm working on that. I actually prefer it on the OD settings at the moment (which is in the general range of the Big Muff distortion/fuzz, so it's OD and then some).
All these fuzzes are very different from one another, so no direct comparisons are particularly accurate or possible, imho. Each pedal would take a lot of playing around to get used to and find their sweetspots aswell.
The Suneater is fierce. I'm not sure what to make of it; even on the lowest fuzz settings I was worried I'd freak the neighbours out and get complaints - the noise just seems one of those boneshaker types that even on low volume would travel through space and time to cause damage. I've just used it clean on the VOX at low volumes with the tele, but I suspect this fuzz may want a dirty tube base and some volume (this might be true of most fuzzes?) to really shine - I could imagine it'd be amazing cranked up high in a club although I'm quite close to the DMZ and you'd have to worry that this could cause a major incident leading to nukes flying around...
I don't know what to say beyond that; I'm feeling a bit shellshocked.
I'm gonna have a little lie down to recover then fire up the Randall and get the SG out... I hope the wife isn't back til much later cause she is gonna freak out (not in a good way).
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