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Quote:i think theres more administrators than actual members. im not sure whos who anyways. they should have more descriptive usernames…
anyways, i just think i figured it out. its just a weird pedal. hahaha. basically it seems to work like this…
it seems to create two very separate tones. a low toned drive sound and a high range fuzz. with the fuzz knob all the way to the right, youre getting the loudest volume of the drive tone. as you turn it to the left the volume of that signal drops. a little ways into turning, you hear a very quiet high toned fuzz sound start to rise in volume, eventually the low tone dissapears completely, until you get all the way to the left where the high toned fuzz is at its loudest volume. …thats what it sounds like is happening to me anyways… so you fiddle with it until you get something you like, and then adjust the volume knob till its at a matched level to the clean signal. i think it sounds best around 10pm. at 12pm it sounds sort of flubby and weird, like either tone isnt very defined at its low volume…
this is strange and foreign to me, as im used to my typical method of EH fuzz pedals of “crank all the knobs and thats how it sounds best”
i dunno, im sure someone with some proper background can shed some more light on this..
The Axis is a 2 transistor fuzz but not like a Fuzz Face. It’s more like the Double Muff. The way the FUZZ control works is that it’s taking the signal from stage 1 at the extreme counter-clockwise rotation and from stage 2 at the other end. Anywhere in between is mixing the stages. Each stage runs through a fairly small value cap that drops a lot of the bass out. Just think of the FUZZ control as a blend control.
FWIW, some very early Big Muffs also had a FUZZ control instead of a SUSTAIN, although they used the standard Big Muff circuit.
