Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone

Brand: Maestro · Category: Fuzz · Released: 1962

The brittle, buzzing box that accidentally invented fuzz as a guitar language

The Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone is the early-sixties fuzz circuit that put broken-console buzz under a footswitch. It is gated, nasal, starved, and gloriously unlike modern sustain fuzz — more rude horn section than endless wall of doom.