I was chatting with a fellow bass player about my new line-up of effects pedals which my last gig enabled/required, and I commented that I had a "black rat fuzz" and when she looked at it she said, "oh, it's a rat clone! That's kinda more of a distortion."

Intrigued I investigated the subject of Fuzz, and apparently it all began with a happy accident in the recording of a Country Song called *Don't Worry.* Where the channel on the recording console had *something gone bad* in it.

[Marty Robbins, *Don't Worry*][1]


This very same broken console circuit was used in the followup hit, *The Fuzz*.

[Grady Martin, *The Fuzz*][2]

Therefore, *every* Fuzz box is a clone of that original effect. Are there any pedals or units which are *directly* copied from the actual breakage of that original circuit? What happened in the change from 1 Fuzz to many Fuzzes? Who made the first clone and how did they do it?

  [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB7H6pT3DW4
  [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp3YHnDPRv0