Low Cost Guitar Clone (Klon?) Pedals and You - Saving Dollars on Accurate Sound

Guitar pedals cost a pretty penny. Sites like Cheaperpedals.com seek to remedy this by stocked Chinese knockoffs (and semi original ideas). We'll sketch out the recommended copies and the original undefeated champions.

RECOMMENDED CLONES:

My horror surf fuzz rock pedalboard, as it stands today

For my current surf, horrorpunk, and lo-fi garage needs.

VFE Triumvirate Distortion
VFE Bumble Bee Compressor
Coldcraft Harmonic Tremolo V2

Fairfield Circuitry Four Eyes
Catalinbread Topanga Reverb
Catalinbread Echorec Delay (and clean boost!)

Voodoo Labs ISO-5

Cusack 5/15 Goblin Amp

The Best of...Guitar Pedal Oddities - The Unique The Strange

A round-up of the unique (truly unique - not hyperbole) and different.

This list avoids the usual (EH B9, Sitar).

Solving Hum and other Noises in your Guitar Effects and Signal Path

60mhz hum getting you down?

Digital or solid state"cycling sound" keeping you up at night?

The solution is herein.

Twang Fuzz - Getting that Spaghetti Western Sound

Spaghetti Western guitar is a combination of 

twangy pickups (the character)
warm, gritty fuzz (the chill up your spine)
and a smattering of spring reverb (open range soul)

A tiny slapback delay gives plucked notes more resonance. A western theme on the box also helps.

P90s and the catalog of TV Jones can get you the pickup character.

The best fuzzes are 60's style Fuzzrite clones.

See my reverb post for recommendations on that.

Now lets discuss the fuzz!