Xploration • Curation • Recommendation
My 4-in-1 Manson Supermassive Black Fuzz has landed - and it's an amazingly wide-ranging full-on Fuzz that touches on all the classic references and delivers plenty more besides!
What we have here is an incredibly potent fuzz - consisting of 3 x OpAmps, 3 x Silicon Transistors, and 2 x Blue LEDs - so the core fuzz flavour is already immense and richly textured - very much ’Supermassive’ in its output. And you then have an impressively powerful tone stack essentially - consisting of an expansive Filter [Warp] (350Hz > 5kHz) used in tandem with a wide-ranging ’Q’ bandwidth control [Dimension]. So essentially a sort of semi-parametric EQ - where you set your chosen ...
Manson Guitar Works co-desigs its Supermassive Black Fuzz with Matt Bellamy and in collaboration with Thorpy
When I first encountered the Supermassive Black Fuzz - I thought the Footswitches + LED arrangement looked very familiar! I found out later that indeed this was another Thorpy Collaboration - where Adrian designed the circuit, and the custom enclosure for Manson - while the artwork and labels are their own!
There was a fateful meeting at London’s RAK Studios - where the key proponents all met up for the first time!
It’s well known that Matt Bellamy favours the Zvex Fuzz Factory Circuit ...
Birmingham's The Guitar Show Highlights
For me, this turned out to be the best The Guitar Show yet - where I pretty much managed to round off all my pre-show goals - in terms of seeing what and whom I wanted to / needed - as per the following highlights. I caught 2 great lunchtime showcases - first by Mikey Demus of Skindred / Redbeard Effects fame and then Rabea Massaad of Andertons, Chapman, Dorje, Toska, etc. fame - and D’Addario as it turned out - albeit people were really just there to see Bea play.
I must have circled the ...
