Fuzz by Shoegaze.

Two fuzzes, a plate reverb, and a delay that falls apart on purpose.

Fuzz is a wall-of-noise machine for guitar and bass. Two independent fuzz circuits sit at its heart, each one morphing continuously between a tight, hard-clipping RAT and a scooped, cascading Big Muff — not a switch between two models, but a real sweep through the topology in between. Run them in series to stack one into the other, or in parallel to keep a clean leg underneath. Each fuzz gets its own six-band EQ, so in series you can shape the signal between the two stages, which is where the interesting damage happens.

From there, a single Blend knob bleeds the fuzz into a plate reverb and an analog-voiced delay. Everything destructive in the delay happens inside the feedback loop, so each repeat is dirtier than the last — bandwidth collapses, the clock drifts, bits fall away. Swap the order of the two and the reverb tail gets chopped and repeated instead of the repeats being washed into the plate.

Pick the op-amp — LM308 for slow, dark and compressed, or the fast one for brighter and squarer. Lean on the Bias control and the whole thing gates and splutters like a dying battery.

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