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Topic: Barber Trifecta Fuzz pedal

Ok so I've looked at Fuzz for weeks now.  I found this pedal and decided I liked the demos I've heard so far.  My other guitar player in our band ususally plays Les Pauls but decided he wants to start using his Strat more.  He doesn't use strats because they don't have the balls that a Gibson has.  So I suggest this pedal as this is the one I want.  He got it last week and took it band practice and loved it... I missed it because I've been sick with the flu.  He's telling me he didn't even touch his strat that this thing sounded so good with the les paul he doens't want to switch after all.  Anyway He let me try it out tonight on my own and I have to say I wasn't as impressed with it by itself as he was but it did have a lot of versitility.  I just didn't love it until I started throwing overdrive pedals in with it.  Not really a boost but more to shape I guess.  I'm running the amp clean with the fuzz to is this the best way to use fuzz or should the amp be distorted slightly?  All I can say was  I'm glad he bought it and not me because I wasn't happy at all with it.

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  • From: East Midlands, UK
  • Registered: 2008-06-30
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Re: Barber Trifecta Fuzz pedal

I'd been thinking of trying one of these myself, thinking it would work well with a strat or a tele.
Would you say humbuckers were working better with it? What did it sound like with your mates rig?

I'm currently using the barber silver LTD, really impressed with it and was going to try a trifecta out too.

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Re: Barber Trifecta Fuzz pedal

I still can't imagine the combination of Fuzz + Les Paul sounding any good. Every demo I heard or watched wasn't convinving.

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  • From: North Carolina
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Re: Barber Trifecta Fuzz pedal

Jimmy Page uses Fuzz quite a lot live with Les Pauls and I was able to make the sound he had on The Ocean very easily with it.  I think The Trifecta sounds better then Fuzz Faces or Big Muffs made today.  I can't say for my friends rig because I was sick and missed practice.  But this thing loved all my Stratocasters and wasn't the least bit muddy.  I didn't see the point of the toggle switch.  I would say it would be great for anything.

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  • From: East Midlands, UK
  • Registered: 2008-06-30
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Re: Barber Trifecta Fuzz pedal

i've used a tonebender clone with a les paul and it sounds pretty good. sometimes humbuckers can saturate a fuzz, get a bit splatty sounding.

one of my favourite fuzz sounds is steve hackett's guitar work with genesis. les pauls with humbuckers or mini-humbuckers into a tonebender = giant hogweeds and mooonlit knight smile

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Re: Barber Trifecta Fuzz pedal

Not a fan of the Trifecta at all although it's a cheap fuzz.

I still would take a Ram's Head 74 Muff over anything, or if you wanted bullet-proof build with a great, great tone, the Pete Cornish P2 is still the Fuzz King.

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