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early 1960s, the fuzz box was one of the first genuine solid-state effects pedals for guitar. It speaks to its expressiveness that the effect has remained both timeless and eternally in fashion in at least one prominent genre of popular music (and sometimes several) for the better part of six decades. The sound of a good fuzz pedal never seems to wear thin, and time and again it has been at the forefront of the latest wave of guitar-fueled fury as practiced by players ranging from Keith Richards and Jimi Hendrix to Billy Corgan and Jack White, and beyond. Pedal maker JHS is celebrating the many-splendored world of fuzz with retro-styled re-creations of four gnarly noisemakers in

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