From Steve Stevens-New Pedal & History Lesson

by **StevensAGoGo** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:42 am

Hey Guys,
As some of you might know i have a huge love for early Brit Prog Rock. Being a giant Robert Fripp fan, his early fuzz tone always had that something special that i found really hard to capture with all of the existing fuzz pedals i have owned. Well, a fair amount of google hours and i learned that he used a Burn Buzzaround. As the only clone i knew of was by DAM (for goddam expensive, lol) i found the original schematic and fired off an e-mail to Kevin Randall, the one guy i know that obsesses over these vintage pedals like i do. I asked if he'd be up for building a clone, a truly exact one with NOS transistors. Well 6 weeks later he sent me off 2 actually. Within 5 minutes of playing through it, the true Fripp tone was in there in a way no Big Muff, Tonebender, or Rat could come close to. I was inspired enough to put together a very King Crimson inspired audio demo that you can download here.
http://files.me.com/stevensagogo/k4e6l4.mp3
Kevin has told me he will make this pedal available to the public although not in the red enclosure. Hope you guys dig this wierd and historic experiment. The photo shows the original Burns pedal and the Kevin version.

by **gee gee** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:44 am

yep.... nails that tone...

thanks for that....

by **gee gee** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:54 am

seems to be a problem with the file... it stops about 15 seconds into it.. maybe its my PC... anyone else..??

by **tomsporer** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:06 pm

sounds great!!
:shock:

by **Jazz/Rock** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:52 pm

Thats very smooth, almost the opposite of the Roger Mayer stuff.

Fuzzes are just so dependent on guitars and pickups of choice. Almost have to match each one to the guitar. That one sounds great!

Can you let us in on what guitar/PU was used?

by **porsche** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:12 pm

Hey Steve...Love the octave bit from "the night watch" in there! Sounds like vintage Fripp..

by **andergtr** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:18 pm

killer stuff, steve...always love hearing your stuff.

john ou

by **StevensAGoGo** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:31 pm

Ahhh, forgot about the tech stuff. Playing a Les Paul Custom. Suhr Badger 30 head set super clean (zero preamp crunch). Bogner Cube 1X12 loaded with a Weber 100w alnico which is basically their version of the Fane alnico. Sure 57 through api mic pre. Verb is courtesy of Eventide H7600.

by **Sven S.-M.** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:33 pm

Steve.
That sounds absolutely great. Very Steve Stevens ;-)

Which guitar, pickups and amp did you use here?

Thanks.

/Sven

by **Sven S.-M.** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:34 pm

Ahh, you beat me to it.
Thanks.

/Sven

by **mkeditor** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:49 pm

Congrats on getting that itch scratched. It is is always a great high to have one of those, "THAT's IT!!" moments. Enjoy...and thanks for sharing.

by **G-Man** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:00 pm

Nice clip!! Beautiful control on your vibrato.

by **ED_V** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:01 pm

Good god o'mighty that sounded great !.

Ed

by **todd richman** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:20 pm

Hey Steve, thanks for that. I also love David Main's D*A*M stuff and had several custom shop pieces which I stupidly sold-the old story! I will definitely have to check out Kevin's Buzzaround clone.

Is the public version going to be available inthe KR classic purple? That would be hot actually!

by **Sveinis** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:04 pm

Very interesting fuzz!!!! Thanks for sharing

S