I've been working on a longer piece (as a summer project prior to PhD -- ) about what seems to be a revival in vintage fuzz. I got to present a very shortened version at last week's Pop Culture Association conference in New Orleans. Perhaps some of you would be into reading it?
I'm very much into feedback, and likely once I get IRB approval, I'll try and conduct some interviews here and on other boards. Bear in mind, this is a very poorly condensed version of a thus-far 70pp work. I shortened it down in 4 hours so it doesn't read all that well.
I'd be very happy if this turned into a post about why people like vintage/analog equipment....
Sounds interesting, I'll definitely check it out this afternoon when I get a chance. If you get the approval, I want to see you interview UG and then use his quotes in an academic context:
"I just like the way those early circuits resonate with the type of sounds I'm searching for," said fuzz aficionado Uncle Grandfather.
colossus wrote:That's articulate as hell compared to the bulk of quotes I got at UG, TDPRI, etc. I got really tired of putting [sic] after every three words.
I think that's really evocative of the average personalities here rather than elsewhere. I recently had to do a little audience engagement survey about news consumption for a class, and the majority of my answers were given (generously) by ilf-members. When I presented my info I was able to read out a lot of lengthy, direct quotes.
I enjoyed your article. I find it hard to talk as specifically about products as you do without it being confusing, but you navigate this flawlessly. An example would be the paragraph where you discuss the fuzz face and the fuzz factory. It would take me a long time to articulate that information effectively. Great job! It got me thinking about how my pedals are nearly evenly split clones (or designs closely inspired by vintage) and totally new designs. Like for reverb I have a spring chicken (classic sound) and a procession (new and unique).
Iommic Pope wrote:This is the best you've been.
Suffering suits you.
BitchPudding wrote:Let this be written in our history as proof that ILoveFuzz is one tight knit internet family.
I'd be very interested to read the longer and deeper/finished version of this, it's a good introduction to the concept and what you're investigating. I think you've done a good job writing about a specialised topic for a general audience, which is easy to forget to do when writing papers.
I liked it. I'll say this though and it might be in the long version and if so oh well…
Where we are now with the whole vintage thing has been a climb since about 1990, when every one started dumping digital rack gear [you also have to remember that digital recording is in no way a new thing.. just easier and cheaper now than ever] for stuff that had been mostly forgotten and could be found cheap in pawn shops, the first I REALLY started hearing about the Big Muff was producer Dave Jerden using the Red Army Distortion [very first vision of the russian muff] on albums in 92-93 [this is when I started playing, so before 92 I didn't know or care what gear was..], which led to the popularity of the sovtek stuff, which got EHX back into the game…the interest in "vintage" pedal has really been climbing since then that point in time… then the internet happened and what went from something cult like has become almost common place.
Some of us are in the DVE. Some of it is a bit like fuzzes and offset guitars had their rebirth--cast-off, uncool stuff that had musical life in it and was cheap to buy. I scan for some pieces I don't have with more intensity than I look for fuzzes. Also, no one is cloning Midiverbs and I certainly am not able to.
But the Sonic Crayon Mechanical Sun looks poised to knock some wind out of the vintage PDS market when it comes along.
D.o.S. wrote:Broadly speaking, if we at ILF are dropping 300 bucks on a pedal it probably sounds like an SNES holocaust.
friendship wrote:death to false bleep-blop
UglyCasanova wrote:brb gonna slap my dick on my stomp boxes
vidret wrote:im waiting for the digital vintage era. i think it's already begun, actually.
Without a doubt. I definitely see lust for early rackmount digital delays.
Thanks for all the feedback, guys. Unfortunately the long version won't be around for a while, but I'll post more here and there and will just update this thread. I have a feeling something along these lines will eventually become my dissertation, so hit me up in 6 years to read the longggggggg version.
) about what seems to be a revival in vintage fuzz. I got to present a very shortened version at last week's Pop Culture Association conference in New Orleans. Perhaps some of you would be into reading it?
