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Musicians

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2. The original fuzz effect was just pushing speakers into distortion by sending them more gain than

Sat May 26, 2018, 11:22 PM

May 2018

they could handle. Or just cheap guitars with cheap pickups. It was white boys trying to reproduce what they heard on Chicago blues recordings.

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