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PRONUNCIATION OF FUZZ BOX

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Fuzz box is a noun.
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WHAT DOES FUZZ BOX MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fuzz box

Distortion (music)

Distortion effects create "warm", "dirty" and "fuzzy" sounds by compressing the peaks of an electric musical instrument's sound wave and adding overtones. Distortion effects are sometimes called "gain" effects, as distorted guitar sounds were first achieved by over-driving tube amplifiers. Distortion has long been integral to the sound of the electric guitar in rock and roll music, and is important to other music genres such as electric blues and jazz fusion. The terms "distortion", "overdrive" and "fuzz" are often used interchangeably, but they have subtle differences in meaning. Overdrive effects are the mildest of the three, producing "warm" overtones at quieter volumes and harsher distortion as gain is increased. A "distortion" effect produces approximately the same amount of distortion at any volume, and its sound alterations are much more pronounced and intense. A fuzzbox alters an audio signal until it is nearly a square wave and adds complex overtones by way of a frequency multiplier. Distortion can be produced by effects pedals, rackmounts, pre-amplifiers, power amplifiers, speakersoftwares and more recently, digital amplifier modeling devices.

Definition of fuzz box in the English dictionary

The definition of fuzz box in the dictionary is an electronic device that breaks up the sound passing through it, used esp by guitarists.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE FUZZ BOX

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Synonyms and antonyms of fuzz box in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «fuzz box» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FUZZ BOX

Find out the translation of fuzz box to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fuzz box from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fuzz box» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

模糊箱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fuzz box
570 millions of speakers

English

fuzz box
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भुरभुरापन आने बॉक्स
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مربع زغب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

музыкальная шкатулка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

caixa de fuzz
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফিজ বক্স
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Fuzz
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kotak fuzz
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fuzz-Box
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ファズボックス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

퍼즈 상자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kothak fuzz
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

hộp lông tơ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Fuzz பெட்டி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अस्पष्ट बॉक्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tüylü kutu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fuzz box
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fuzz box
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

музична шкатулка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cutie puf
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

κουτί fuzz
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

fuzz boks
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

fuzz låda
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

fuzz boks
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUZZ BOX»

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Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic and Other Satisfactions
He gave some of them to his friends Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, the latter of whom passed along a fuzz box to Jeff Beck. Other guitarists also took interest in the boxes. One, Jim Sullivan, became the first to use a Mayer fuzz box on a record ...
Michael Hicks, 2000
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Guitar Tone:: Pursuing the Ultimate Guitar Sound
A fuzz box creates a tone by boosting the signal within itself until the signal distorts. Hmmmm, sorta sounds like the same thing as an overdrive. In fact, the two categories are quite similar in function, if not in result or technology. Most fuzzes ...
Mitch Gallagher, 2012
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The Space Between the Notes: Rock and the Counter-Culture
The fuzz box was first prominently featured on the Rolling Stones' (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction in August of the same year. This was a distinctly different one to that Jeff Beck achieved on the Yardbirds' 'Shapes of Things' in March 1966. By the ...
Sheila Whiteley, 2003
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Keyboard Presents Synth Gods
I use a fuzz box quite a lot. I've never heard of another synthesizer player using a fuzz box. What kind of fuzz box do you have? I have a great one. It's very old. It's called a Project WEM. I've never seen another one. But it's a lovely fuzz box.
Ernie Rideout, 2011
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Great Guitar Tone with IK Multimedia AmpliTube:: The ...
The legend of the fuzz box's origins involves a Nashville engineer named Glenn Snoddy. Snoddy built a transistorized box to emulate the sound that session guitarist Grady Martin got by playing through a busted mixing board. This fuzz ended ...
Michael Ross, 2011
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Fuzz & Feedback: Classic Guitar Music of the '60s
51 (see also Neolon) fuzz box/pedal 6. 7. 44. 58. 78 Fuzz Face 83 Gagann. Yuri I 5 Galanli 23. 61 Grand Prix 61 Games People Play' 61 Garcia. Jerry 47. 48, 49 Garland. Hank 58. 58. 59. 60-61 Gemelli 25 catalogue 25 Germany 23 'Getting ...
Tony Bacon, 2000
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Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy
Fuzz The first photographs of Jimi Hendrix using a Fuzz box were taken when he played with Curtis Knight & The Squires at the Cheetah, New York City, May 1966. Possibly this was a Maestro fuzz unit. Arbiter Fuzz Face The Fuzz Face was ...
Harry Shapiro, 1995
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The Science of Electric Guitars and Guitar Electronics
6.2 Fuzz box voodoo One of the first commercial distortion pedals was the 'Fuzz- Tone' pedal, which was manufactured under the brand name 'Maestro' in the early years of 1960's. The bipolar junction transistor was invented in 1947, so it did ...
Jarmo Lähdevaara, 2012
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Guitar Effects Pedals - the Practical Handbook
Most guitarists will know E-H best for its Big Muff Pi, a fat, fully saturated-sounding fuzz box with truckloads of sustain which hit the market in 1970. (Although it's often documented that the pedal was released in 1971, Matthews says a former ...
Dave Hunter, 2004
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Spatial Reasoning and Multi-sensor Fusion: Proceedings of ...
Possibility of the existence is uniformly positive in a fuzz box, and zero outside the box. This formulation has a couple of drawbacks. First, the shape of the region must be rectangular. Second, Davis had to have the boundary of fuzz box sharp, ...
Avinash C. Kak, Su-shing Chen, 1987

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FUZZ BOX»

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Chris Squire, founding bassist of Yes, dead at age 67; musician had …
That playing on 'Yours is no Disgrace' showed what was possible with a Rick and a lead amp/bass amp/fuzz box etc. Thank you Chris and Rest ... «AL.com, Jun 15»
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ESSENTIAL SONGS: The time Keith Richards wrote the Rolling …
Produced with the help of a Gibson 'Fuzz Box' guitar pedal, Richards had always intended that his intro be replaced with some brass horns, ... «Newstalk 106-108 fm, Jun 15»
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Sarah Cracknell at Gorilla, Manchester: review
Hearts are Made to Be Broken is a delightful, wry pop song lightened by a vibraphone-like line and darkened by a chugging fuzz box guitar. «Manchester Evening News, Jun 15»
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'Satisfaction' celebrates 50 years
“I went out and bought a Gibson Fuzz Box. It just changed everything.” The Rolling Stones, with “Satisfaction” and other early songs, channeled ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jun 15»
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Sarah Cracknell: Flying Kites in Sylvan Skies
... while the delicious “Hearts Are For Breaking,” with its fuzz box guitars, oozes girl-group charm and charisma and hopefully will be a single. «SLUG Magazine, Jun 15»
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"Satisfaction" at 50: Revisiting the Riff That Rocked the World
“The Stones used a regular fuzz box.” In fact, Richards used a Gibson Maestro Fuzz-Tone pedal, which was first marketed in 1962. About 5,000 ... «LA Weekly, Jun 15»
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'(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' Turns 50: Here's How the Song …
But Richards' use of the then-new Gibson Maestro Fuzz Box (a device you can actually hear him click on and off throughout the song) sent the ... «People Magazine, Jun 15»
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Reverb and Rivalry: Jim Reid on the Jesus and Mary Chain's …
You pick up a fuzz box, kick it, and it goes [makes explosion sound], and you think, “Yeah, that sounds good. That's our new guitar sound.”. «KQED, May 15»
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50 years ago, the song 'Satisfaction' was born in Clearwater
“It synthesizes so many different elements - the Motown soul stuff, the Dylan folk stuff, the new technology with the fuzz box.” On Rolling Stone's ... «Washington Times, May 15»
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Watch: First Great Birmingham 10k Run - runners flock to pound the …
Birmingham Lord Mayor Coun Shafique Shah, along with 80s rock star Vix Perks, then of band Fuzz Box and now with all-girl band ViX & her ... «Birmingham Mail, May 15»

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