Fuzz origins

In Rock N Roll music, accidents sometimes defined the sound style; when the country singer Marty Robbins prepared his song "Don't worry", the session musician Grady Martin heard a raw and agressive sound from his bass guitar recording; the Nashville sound engineer Glenn Snoddy identified an altered transformer in the mixing console. After some hesitation, the recording team decided to keep this default and the title eventually became a great success; every guitarist wanted to obtain the same fuzz effect discovered in the Quonset Hut Studio. Nancy Sinatra asked Glenn Snoddy to reproduce this fuzz tone. Thus, The tenessee engineer created especially a fuzz box producing an oversaturated sound with sustain resulting from a plain square wave signal. His invention was marketed in 1962 by Gibson compagny ( Maestro Fuzz Tone FZ1). Of course, The Fuzz became really famous in 1965 with the Rolling stones hit "I can't get know satisfaction" and the agressive riff played by Keith Richards.