ragamuffin
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For many years now I have lived my life Faceless; an incomplete soul, a lonely shadow with no visage. Approximately one year ago that all changed, however briefly. I had obtained the Face but I didn't fully understand it. Could it really be my Face? I didn't think so...
When you've lived your life for so long lacking for something so simple, it can be difficult to understand once you have it. And so I parted ways with my newly found Face. But then I found myself once thinking about the Face. Craving it. For once one has tasted the rain, he can never break that addiction. For a year there were no storms, no water to quench my thirst...
For a time I nearly forgot the taste of the rain... My throat had grown dry; so dry that had it had become a defining feature of my existence. But then I saw it! Right here on the TGP classifieds, like drenching storm above that barren land! And so I bought it. For a second time a Face is mine, and it is righteous! It's texture! It's grit! It's viol-ik sustain! It is my Face now, and I think it is here to stay!
TFWDR (Too F*cking Weird, Didn't Read): I bought a Basic Audio Face fuzz for the second time, and it's sweet!
The Face is a really cool fuzz. It seems to have a lot more volume and gain on tap than a traditional germanium Fuzz Face, but still retains the most desirable characteristics. Woody, gritty, smooth, violin-like sustain, and excellent cleanup with the volume knob.
The bias control is interesting, you can set the Face for gating if you like, but I seem prefer the bias set in a normal range. The starve control is great! I'm setting the control for slight starve, and I feel it thins the sound slightly and greatly improves the texture. So far I like the body switch set to the left (middle amount of bass).
I'm particularly liking the face with p90s, but it also sound great with singles and low-moderate output humbuckers. It does a great vintage Fuzz Face sound if thats what you're after, but has many crazier/more experimental tones available. It also sounds great with the volume turned up slamming an amp for doomy sounds.
As an added bonus, I think it also has one of my all time favorite pedal graphics haha
When you've lived your life for so long lacking for something so simple, it can be difficult to understand once you have it. And so I parted ways with my newly found Face. But then I found myself once thinking about the Face. Craving it. For once one has tasted the rain, he can never break that addiction. For a year there were no storms, no water to quench my thirst...
For a time I nearly forgot the taste of the rain... My throat had grown dry; so dry that had it had become a defining feature of my existence. But then I saw it! Right here on the TGP classifieds, like drenching storm above that barren land! And so I bought it. For a second time a Face is mine, and it is righteous! It's texture! It's grit! It's viol-ik sustain! It is my Face now, and I think it is here to stay!
TFWDR (Too F*cking Weird, Didn't Read): I bought a Basic Audio Face fuzz for the second time, and it's sweet!
The Face is a really cool fuzz. It seems to have a lot more volume and gain on tap than a traditional germanium Fuzz Face, but still retains the most desirable characteristics. Woody, gritty, smooth, violin-like sustain, and excellent cleanup with the volume knob.
The bias control is interesting, you can set the Face for gating if you like, but I seem prefer the bias set in a normal range. The starve control is great! I'm setting the control for slight starve, and I feel it thins the sound slightly and greatly improves the texture. So far I like the body switch set to the left (middle amount of bass).
I'm particularly liking the face with p90s, but it also sound great with singles and low-moderate output humbuckers. It does a great vintage Fuzz Face sound if thats what you're after, but has many crazier/more experimental tones available. It also sounds great with the volume turned up slamming an amp for doomy sounds.
As an added bonus, I think it also has one of my all time favorite pedal graphics haha
