From then on there's some great tributes to be spotted as players recall their own key effects discoveries. The first 25 minutes of the film are dedicated to fuzz pedals – and Billy Corgan pops up about talking about the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff. Retailing at $40 and the world's first distortion pedal. The Gibson Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone was born in 1962. Snoddy couldn't just rely on a faulty piece of equipment to replicate it and created a solution with engineer Revis Hobbs. Other engineers and artists then wanted the sound – including Nancy Sinatra. It's hard now to comprehend just how bold this sound was as the time and the reaction it received from listeners. The resulting effect on Martin's bass sound causes a discussion – Robbins likes the "fuzz tone sound" that the fault gives the tone and so does engineer Glenn Snoddy. Nobody knew that there were faulty transformers in it.
The bass player was legendary Nashville session player Grady Martin and as JHS Effects founder / pedal history guru Josh Scott explains, he was using a six-string Danelectro six-string bass guitar plugged direct into a brand new mixing desk. The film charts the evolution of effects chronologically and features George Snoddy early on – engineer of country singer Marty Robbins' Don't Worry (the b-side to 1961 single Like All The Others).
ThorpyFX's Adrian Thorpe and Dan Coggins answer our pedal questions
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