Park Custom Shop Fuzz Sound

The Fuzz Sound is a rare original Park circuit from the sixties, rebuilt in the Park Custom Shop. It runs original-spec PNP germanium transistors, and that is the part that decides how it sounds: germanium gives the ragged, slightly unstable edge and the way the fuzz thins out and cleans up when you roll the guitar volume back, which no silicon reissue quite reproduces. The circuit was widely used in the late sixties and early seventies, then came back around this century once original units got scarce and expensive.

Two things have changed, and both remove reasons not to use it. A voltage inverter circuit lets the pedal run from a standard mains supply rather than demanding a battery, which is normally what keeps a PNP germanium fuzz off a modern board. The fuzz range is also wider than the original, so there are usable settings well below full and more volume on tap at the top. It is aimed at players who already own the usual suspects and want a vintage fuzz that is authentic without being the same one everybody else has.