D.o.S. wrote:
It's possible they licensed the name. You could email them and see what they say?
I e-mailed them about 7 hours ago I guess. We shall wait and see. I still find it weird that they went through all that pedal marketing, launch propaghanda at NAMM and beyond (for those new four) but never mentioned this pedal. I hope it is somekind of official reissue or something.
edit: Just watched the Andy vid too (just got released I guess): talk about making a pedal boring. CB stuff usually has a kind of dead sound to my ear. They keep saying it is the actual circuit with "special" transistors and a faithful repro, but then Andy says they "smoothed" it out and made it less gated and raspy. If you don't want that sound then you don't want a fuzzrite, right? That Iron Butterfly song sounded way too clean. haha, why do I even care?
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lordgalvar wrote:http://proguitarshop.com/catalinbread-fuzzrite.html Catalinbread now has a Fuzzrite clone? This is strange...it's weird for a larger company to flat out use the name (and I am sure someone owns the copyright...Mosrite still exists, you know, as does the original creator Sanner who developed it for Rosac still makes them from time to time and built under the Hallmark label last). Did they licence a name and is this some kind of official reissue?
That classic circuit is now available today—in the only box good enough to carry the name Fuzzrite. All the hairy, woolly tone of the original flows from the new Fuzzrite, and after a few seconds, you’ll wonder how you ever got along without one.
It's just weird...
The didn't announce it and it isn't on their page either. Is this a quick marketing ploy to compete with the EQD Park Fuzz?
Probably just licensed, but isn't their Merkin supposed to be a Fuzzrite?
lordgalvar wrote:Andy says they "smoothed" it out and made it less gated and raspy.
Yeah--that describes a Merkin to the T.
Which in practice didn't turn out all that awful, really, except that you still needed to go out and source an OG Fuzzrite circuit anyway if you were even looking at a Merkin in the first place.
Plus this is ILF. If you're going to fuck with it, make it insaner or die.
"In a moment of unparalleled genius, Noel Parachute headed off this potential disaster by unplugging the microphone."
Umm, wow...I asked via e-mail if it was lincensed or involved mosrite, etc in anyway and if it used the original circuit, etc. All I got back was this:
"It is indeed a faithful reproduction of the silicon Fuzzrite. "
What does that even mean? Just weird. I wonder if the name "fuzzrite" is public domain or something now (though I really doubt it)?
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bob the r0bot wrote:Looks like everything is on the up and up after all (not that Semie could really do anything about it).
It's actually surprising to me a bit. That third wife and daughter of his are always fighting over who owns the rights to the mosrite name and have licensed it all over the place (Fillmore of Japan, and I think even Kurokumo was legit once). He lost Mosrite and stuff several times anyway. Thanks for finding that out. It really kind of sad that they cut Ed Sanner out completely when two other companies have come in and let him be a part of it and giving him some income (even though I think he retired well enough//still builds amps and stuff). It's good that everything is legit, though I don't really like buying a name for a name.
What old brand "name" are they going to buy next, interfax? Whatever works for them I guess?
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