Buzz's Guitar Setup

[Smellis]

I love the turbo rat is has a reall cool crushing tone. Can't wait to mess with it more when I have more time!!

[heldatgunpoint]

This is Buzz's pedal setup from '97, he's sure changed alot. I doubt you'd see him using
Tremolo nowadays. Anyways, I thought I'd share it for you rabid types out there.

Anaconda, as far as you know were these the settings he used?
Pretty intersting because the distortion on the Rat is set really low while the volume and on the Rat and Mxr micro amp is set almost on full, makes sense that he switched to a turbo rat since it double the output of a normal one. Leading me to think that most of his distortion sound is coming from overdriving the amp, which in most cases seems to be the solid state transistor Sunn amp he has. Kind of unusual!


At ATP he was using some new looking Laney head and cab, surprisingly it sounded great. Better than the marshall JCM900 he was using when i saw them on the ATP Houdini gig.

[Dead Cowboy]

This is Buzz's pedal setup from '97, he's sure changed alot. I doubt you'd see him using
Tremolo nowadays. Anyways, I thought I'd share it for you rabid types out there.

Anaconda, as far as you know were these the settings he used?
Pretty intersting because the distortion on the Rat is set really low while the volume and on the Rat and Mxr micro amp is set almost on full, makes sense that he switched to a turbo rat since it double the output of a normal one. Leading me to think that most of his distortion sound is coming from overdriving the amp, which in most cases seems to be the solid state transistor Sunn amp he has. Kind of unusual!


At ATP he was using some new looking Laney head and cab, surprisingly it sounded great. Better than the marshall JCM900 he was using when i saw them on the ATP Houdini gig.

he was probably renting that stuff since it was overseas.the amps I mean.

[heldatgunpoint]

Yeah.. had guessed that. Have yet to see any kind of Sunn amp over here.

[anaconda]

Anaconda, as far as you know were these the settings he used?
Pretty intersting because the distortion on the Rat is set really low while the volume and on the Rat and Mxr micro amp is set almost on full, makes sense that he switched to a turbo rat since it double the output of a normal one. Leading me to think that most of his distortion sound is coming from overdriving the amp, which in most cases seems to be the solid state transistor Sunn amp he has. Kind of unusual!

I snapped the pic just before they soundchecked, this was where the settings were when the
crew set up his gear, he did however manipulate them for a good 1/2 hr afterwards. I also tried to
get close during the actual show to see his performance settings but the pit was too fierce.

I think you may be right about him achieving distortion by overdriving the amp though,
because they dipped into a noise/improv section in the middle of the show and it was squalls
of white noise, you could even hear his amp picking up a radio station at times!

[Idlehanz]

Description of the DOD Buzz box from Ebay:

Whoever gets this thing is lucky. 4 knobs, Heavy (Bass, 2 octaves down), Buzz (Distortion), Thrust (Level), Saw (Treble). This is similar to MXRs blue box but with more balls. The Buzzbox rips, farts, screeches, swirls, spatters, chugs, cuts out like a stopping motorbike, buzzes, does synth tones, dual octaves, mess, sizzle, whine.

[Smellis]

That sounds really cool.

[anaconda]

I posted sound clips earlier in this thread you doofs!
mp3 clips of the original DOD BuzzBox which I borrowed
permanently from a -now- deceased person:

Here's a couple of sample 'riffs' for you fine folks:

buzzbox "distortion"
http://thesickos.free.fr/buzzbox_distortion.mp3

buzzbox "noise"
http://thesickos.free.fr/buzzbox_noise.mp3

[FartLips]

yeah i've played with one a friend of mine had and it was heavenly!

[Idlehanz]

I posted sound clips earlier in this thread you doofs!
mp3 clips of the original DOD BuzzBox which I borrowed
permanently from a -now- deceased person:

Here's a couple of sample 'riffs' for you fine folks:

buzzbox "distortion"
http://thesickos.free.fr/buzzbox_distortion.mp3

buzzbox "noise"
http://thesickos.free.fr/buzzbox_noise.mp3

Sorry Conda, I read the whole thread, but missed it....

[anaconda]

No sweat, don't worry dude, no apologies needed

[Smellis]

I am sorry too..........I'M NOT WORTHY!! (Bows down in disgrace)...................

[anaconda]

Ok, now you're just getting too silly!! Arrest that man!

[brian]

Does anyone remember that graphic that was supposedly showing what buzz uses, it had hiwatt cabs and a rat and a blue box i think in it. where did that image originate, some website has these for many artists...

[erin]

Maybe this place? 
http://guitargeek.com/