THE FUZZ BOX hit the scene in the early 1960s, and by the latter part of the decade nearly every gear manufacturer was promoting their own version of the effect. But the most popular American-made fuzz pedal of all time, the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff, wasn’t released until the end of the 1960s or possibly the very start of the next. Remarkably, it very quickly became a favorite of guitarists everywhere.
That hairy form of distortion known as fuzz was first boxed in a compact solid-state device when Nashville studio engineer Glenn Snoddy devised a circuit to re-create the enticingly clipped sound
