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Had my t-style reconfigured to add a single coil neck (previously gold foil mini humbucker) and a staple bridge. To my ear the bridge is much warmer than the previous pickup without losing any top end clarity, and the neck pickup is much brighter than the old minihum, which is what I wanted.

Guitar is a /u/ancoatsguitars Granada.

This is my collection so far. I’ve tried to keep it lean with one-ish example of each main archetype.

Expresso FX Germanium Fuzz: A brilliant CV7005/2N1307 fuzz face. It’s built about half an hour down the road from me, which attracted me to it initially, but beyond that it’s excellent. Cleans up wonderfully, as you’d expect. Love playing Portishead tunes through this.

Zvex Fuzz Factory: Everyone knows this one, I usually use it as a gated fuzz. Great for psychedelic tunes like King Gizz.

Bigfoot Engineering King Fuzz: A three-transistor silicon BC109 fuzz. This is my favourite of the bunch. It cleans up around 3 on my guitar volume, which gives a wide range of overdrive textures across the taper. Use it for anything.

Death By Audio Fuzz War: Tried making Big Muffs work for a while and don’t enjoy them. Don’t know how many transistors are in here, but it sounds sick. Use it for garage-y stuff like White Stripes or Frankie and the Witch Fingers.

Hudson Broadcast: Not strictly a fuzz I know, but the high gain sound gets you there. Obviously very versatile with the two gain stages and very interactive with volume controls. I usually have this on the board alongside any of the fuzzes pictured, and it stacks well with the low cut pot. Useful for anything.

Behringer SF300: Actually don’t like this so much, but everyone bangs on about it and it was £20 so I took the plunge. Too cheap to be worth selling, so it just hangs around.

OxEAE Fuzz: Another unbelievable fuzz. Surprisingly versatile with the Texture and Weight controls. Part of me itches for a Glaive but I dunno if it’s worth having both - almost certainly not. I can’t really pin it down to a genre, it competes with the Fuzz War for time on the board.

That’s it for now. I’m side-eyeing a Parts Garden on Reverb after /u/john_eae mentioned it in his list, and also a Fredric Effects Super Unpleasant Companion is firmly in my crosshairs. Currently pausing purchases until I’ve moved on some of my many redundant overdrives, and realistically all of the above does have me covered so I’ll just settle for now.