Cream Fuzz
My tribute to the famous Frantone Cream Puff.
Current stock are housed in lovely speckled pink enclosures from Stomp Box Parts!
About the original, from The Tone Report:
The Cream Puff is an IC based distortion-fuzz that, like its namesake, sounds spongy and creamy. Fran Blanche from Frantone says that the Cream Puff was an attempt to “. . . set out to make a tone that sounded like a snowball cake tastes.” While perhaps a bit of a strange inspiration, it gives way to quite a unique tone that is really only available with the Cream Puff. It really does feel like playing a sonic artist’s rendition of a cream puff, which makes it that much harder to compare to other fuzz or distortion units out there. The attack is spongy, the lows are taut, and the highs are ever-so-slightly subdued for a warm character that is very reminiscent of germanium fuzzes. The ever-important midrange here is what defines the Cream Puff tone-wise, which responds with a slightly bouncy, almost compressed characteristic. The control of those frequencies come in the form of the Fluff knob, which is a combination tone and fuzz control. Rolling it back darkens the tone, very slightly subdues the midrange compression, and lowers the gain. Cranking it up opens up the compression-like qualities, brightens up the midrange, adds girth, gain, and a very subtle hint of high end spittiness that is reminiscent of germanium fuzzes. The tone control is interactive with the Fluff control, and helps pull back some of the high end filtering to reveal those nastier and more aggressive high-end dynamics.
My tribute to the famous Frantone Cream Puff.
Current stock are housed in lovely speckled pink enclosures from Stomp Box Parts!
About the original, from The Tone Report:
The Cream Puff is an IC based distortion-fuzz that, like its namesake, sounds spongy and creamy. Fran Blanche from Frantone says that the Cream Puff was an attempt to “. . . set out to make a tone that sounded like a snowball cake tastes.” While perhaps a bit of a strange inspiration, it gives way to quite a unique tone that is really only available with the Cream Puff. It really does feel like playing a sonic artist’s rendition of a cream puff, which makes it that much harder to compare to other fuzz or distortion units out there. The attack is spongy, the lows are taut, and the highs are ever-so-slightly subdued for a warm character that is very reminiscent of germanium fuzzes. The ever-important midrange here is what defines the Cream Puff tone-wise, which responds with a slightly bouncy, almost compressed characteristic. The control of those frequencies come in the form of the Fluff knob, which is a combination tone and fuzz control. Rolling it back darkens the tone, very slightly subdues the midrange compression, and lowers the gain. Cranking it up opens up the compression-like qualities, brightens up the midrange, adds girth, gain, and a very subtle hint of high end spittiness that is reminiscent of germanium fuzzes. The tone control is interactive with the Fluff control, and helps pull back some of the high end filtering to reveal those nastier and more aggressive high-end dynamics.
My tribute to the famous Frantone Cream Puff.
Current stock are housed in lovely speckled pink enclosures from Stomp Box Parts!
About the original, from The Tone Report:
The Cream Puff is an IC based distortion-fuzz that, like its namesake, sounds spongy and creamy. Fran Blanche from Frantone says that the Cream Puff was an attempt to “. . . set out to make a tone that sounded like a snowball cake tastes.” While perhaps a bit of a strange inspiration, it gives way to quite a unique tone that is really only available with the Cream Puff. It really does feel like playing a sonic artist’s rendition of a cream puff, which makes it that much harder to compare to other fuzz or distortion units out there. The attack is spongy, the lows are taut, and the highs are ever-so-slightly subdued for a warm character that is very reminiscent of germanium fuzzes. The ever-important midrange here is what defines the Cream Puff tone-wise, which responds with a slightly bouncy, almost compressed characteristic. The control of those frequencies come in the form of the Fluff knob, which is a combination tone and fuzz control. Rolling it back darkens the tone, very slightly subdues the midrange compression, and lowers the gain. Cranking it up opens up the compression-like qualities, brightens up the midrange, adds girth, gain, and a very subtle hint of high end spittiness that is reminiscent of germanium fuzzes. The tone control is interactive with the Fluff control, and helps pull back some of the high end filtering to reveal those nastier and more aggressive high-end dynamics.