I’ve listed the pedals a little differently here - with the trifecta at the top, the Echo in the middle, and the others is alphabetical order. There is also the question of the Basic Audio Alter-Destiny Muff-style Fuzz versus Skeddy’s 1971, BC239 and Cognitive Dissonance - there’s some healthy competition there and a challenge for me to get my head and ears around. So this is already one of my best loved pedal brands and I have a significant number of these classics already, while I need to catch up a little more on Basic Audio. As stated elsewhere I have a real thing for tap-tempo on delays. I’m just waiting for it to come down in size a touch and acquire a secondary footswitch for tap-tempo. There’s no question either that the hybrid Analogue/Digital Echo Tape-style Delay is one of the best sounding ones out there. Of those pedals I don’t have yet there are several still in my sights - the BC239 Muff, Cognitive Dissonance Muff and 1971 Muff. In some ways the original Mayonnaise circuit has branched out in two distinct directions - with the 2017-released ’1971’ Fuzz being the closest to the Mayonnaise original, while the Cognitive Dissonance has gone in a more beefed up and high-gain direction. There have been a number of versions of this - with new version numbers arising mostly because of declining / used up stocks of rare transistors. Marc’s original signature pedal was the Mayonnaise Fuzz - based on the original 1971 EHX Big Muff Pi. I have in fact 6 of these now in my collection including the very vibrant 4-Silicon-Transistor BC109 Fuzz-Face style one, Gilmourish P19 Muff-style one and most recently the Top Fuel High Gain Distortion one. Those were the first 3 Skreddys I acquired. Marc has also managed to deliver a trifecta of fairly unique signature pedals - in the form of this Hybrid Fuzz Driver, Lunar Module Mini Deluxe and Screw Driver Mini Deluxe 5-pot pedals. While John Lyons of Basic Audio has a generally accepted wider range of Fuzz Pedals in terms of tonal palette, Marc Ahlfs has very much become the master of the 4-Transistor-Silicon fuzzes as well as Germanium/Silicon hybrids.
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