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The [[Fuzzdog]] Cream Fluff Fuzz pedal. So our best understanding is that this is a clone of the [http://www.frantone.com Frantone] [http://www.frantone.com/creampuff.html Cream Puff Fuzz]. We ended picking up the PCB for this pedal - not necessarily because we weren't open to the possibility of buying a Frantone pedal (we were - we don't support complete clones except in a few cases), but because we were under the impression in 2016, that Frantone wasn't going to be making it (or any other pedal) any more.  It had fallen off of Frantone's production line, didn't have a webpage for ordering, and the Frantone website looked like it was possibly, even likely, ending production of all pedals.  So we bought the Cream Fluff Fuzz PCB from Fuzzdog.  Yes, we bought only the PCB.  When shipping from abroad, we're only going to buy the bare minimum we need to buy.  Why pay for overseas shipping of transistors, resistors, and capacitors we can source here, right?
 
The [[Fuzzdog]] Cream Fluff Fuzz pedal. So our best understanding is that this is a clone of the [http://www.frantone.com Frantone] [http://www.frantone.com/creampuff.html Cream Puff Fuzz]. We ended picking up the PCB for this pedal - not necessarily because we weren't open to the possibility of buying a Frantone pedal (we were - we don't support complete clones except in a few cases), but because we were under the impression in 2016, that Frantone wasn't going to be making it (or any other pedal) any more.  It had fallen off of Frantone's production line, didn't have a webpage for ordering, and the Frantone website looked like it was possibly, even likely, ending production of all pedals.  So we bought the Cream Fluff Fuzz PCB from Fuzzdog.  Yes, we bought only the PCB.  When shipping from abroad, we're only going to buy the bare minimum we need to buy.  Why pay for overseas shipping of transistors, resistors, and capacitors we can source here, right?
  
At any rate, Frantone ended up making updates to the website in 2017.  That having been said, once Frantone updated, it wasn't an ongoing effort. As of the writing of this article (December 2, 2018), it would seem that Fran Blanche, the owner of Frantone, hasn't updated the website, since it was last dated in @copy; March 2017.
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At any rate, Frantone ended up making updates to the website in 2017.  That having been said, once Frantone updated, it wasn't an ongoing effort. As of the writing of this article (December 2, 2018), it would seem that Fran Blanche, the owner of Frantone, hasn't updated the website, since it was last dated in © copyright March 2017.
  
 
It appears she's a one-woman operation with limited bandwidth. It's cool. We get it, given our understanding of the nature of the pedal business. But that said, and just so long as we understand that the number of parts we count in the Fuzzdog clone (we haven't opened an actual Frantone), we have a hard time agreeing that $300.00 (ok, $295.00) is a reasonable price for a pedal that's a $10.00 enclosure with about $20.00 worth of parts.
 
It appears she's a one-woman operation with limited bandwidth. It's cool. We get it, given our understanding of the nature of the pedal business. But that said, and just so long as we understand that the number of parts we count in the Fuzzdog clone (we haven't opened an actual Frantone), we have a hard time agreeing that $300.00 (ok, $295.00) is a reasonable price for a pedal that's a $10.00 enclosure with about $20.00 worth of parts.

Revision as of 01:47, 4 December 2018

The Fuzzdog Cream Fluff Fuzz pedal. So our best understanding is that this is a clone of the Frantone Cream Puff Fuzz. We ended picking up the PCB for this pedal - not necessarily because we weren't open to the possibility of buying a Frantone pedal (we were - we don't support complete clones except in a few cases), but because we were under the impression in 2016, that Frantone wasn't going to be making it (or any other pedal) any more. It had fallen off of Frantone's production line, didn't have a webpage for ordering, and the Frantone website looked like it was possibly, even likely, ending production of all pedals. So we bought the Cream Fluff Fuzz PCB from Fuzzdog. Yes, we bought only the PCB. When shipping from abroad, we're only going to buy the bare minimum we need to buy. Why pay for overseas shipping of transistors, resistors, and capacitors we can source here, right?

At any rate, Frantone ended up making updates to the website in 2017. That having been said, once Frantone updated, it wasn't an ongoing effort. As of the writing of this article (December 2, 2018), it would seem that Fran Blanche, the owner of Frantone, hasn't updated the website, since it was last dated in © copyright March 2017.

It appears she's a one-woman operation with limited bandwidth. It's cool. We get it, given our understanding of the nature of the pedal business. But that said, and just so long as we understand that the number of parts we count in the Fuzzdog clone (we haven't opened an actual Frantone), we have a hard time agreeing that $300.00 (ok, $295.00) is a reasonable price for a pedal that's a $10.00 enclosure with about $20.00 worth of parts.

Controls

  • Knob 1 - "Fuzz":
  • Knob 2 - "Tone":
  • Knob 3 - "Volume":
  • Footswitch 1 - "On/Off":

Bypass: True

Like most pedals assembled from only PCBs, the Fuzzdog Cream Fluff Fuzz is True Bypass.

General Information

In our opinion, this is really a fantastic sounding pedal. When the controls are set just so, the pedal can sound like a beautiful, harmonically rich, thick fuzz.It's perhaps not unlike a low-RPM / high torque buzzsaw with a blade that's just-a-little-bit-less-than-super-sharp, ripping through a stack of 2x4s with reckless abandon. It can also be set so it sounds like a 1960s fuzzed-out guitar coming through a crappy old transistor radio with a cheap 2-inch speaker, and set to an AM radio station.

When you really have time to get into exploring the sonic possibilities, one of the things we find really remarkable is the "girth" of the distortion even with single-coil pickups. Maybe the Frantone Cream Puff Fuzz is actually worth $300.00 (ok, $295.00)?

Pedal Manual

Phase Inversion:Yes/No

Schematic ID Electronic Part Action Phase State
X X X X

Schematic

Artists

We are currently unaware of any artists actively using the pedal now, or who have in the past.


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