{"id":109,"date":"2021-05-13T20:57:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/?p=109"},"modified":"2023-04-27T22:52:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T22:52:57","slug":"buzztone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/buzztone","title":{"rendered":"Selmer Buzz Tone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/buzztone#overview\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/buzztone#tech-specs\">Tech specs<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/buzztone#european-connections\">European connections<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/buzztone#pink-floyd\">Pink Floyd<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/buzztone#share-your-fuzz\">Share your fuzz!<\/a><br><br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-1.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"916\" data-id=\"3590\" src=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-1-1024x916.webp\" alt=\"1966 Selmer Buzz Tone.\" class=\"wp-image-3590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-1-1024x916.webp 1024w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-1-300x268.webp 300w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-1-768x687.webp 768w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-1-1536x1374.webp 1536w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-1.webp 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-3.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"804\" data-id=\"3589\" src=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-3-1024x804.webp\" alt=\"1966 Selmer Buzz Tone.\" class=\"wp-image-3589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-3-1024x804.webp 1024w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-3-300x236.webp 300w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-3-768x603.webp 768w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-3-1536x1207.webp 1536w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-3.webp 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-2.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"784\" data-id=\"3588\" src=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-2-1024x784.webp\" alt=\"1966 Selmer Buzz Tone.\" class=\"wp-image-3588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-2-1024x784.webp 1024w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-2-300x230.webp 300w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-2-768x588.webp 768w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-2-1536x1176.webp 1536w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-2.webp 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Selmer is a household name among brass and woodwind musicians, but for a brief period, the organisation\u2019s branch in the UK offered equipment to electric guitarists too, via what would go on to become the company&#8217;s famous showroom at 114-116 Charing Cross Road. During the mid-1960s, Selmer equipment was being manufactured at a factory in Holborn, London,<span id='easy-footnote-1-109' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/buzztone#easy-footnote-bottom-1-109' title='Beat Instrumental, September 1966, p. 23'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, and so it&#8217;s quite likely that this is where the Buzz Tones were assembled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The Selmer Buzz Tone was an early British fuzz box design, and was already being presented at the British Musical Instrument Industries Trade Fair in August of 1966. Selmer printed regular advertisements for the model in the British press during late 1966, and a selection of cuttings are pictured below.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/selmer_buzztone_ad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"498\" height=\"640\" data-id=\"116\" src=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/selmer_buzztone_ad.jpg\" alt=\"Advertisement for the Selmer Buzz Tone, printed in Beat Instrumental, November 1966.\" class=\"wp-image-116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/selmer_buzztone_ad.jpg 498w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/selmer_buzztone_ad-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/selmer-buzz-tone-mm-8-20-1966.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"533\" data-id=\"115\" src=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/selmer-buzz-tone-mm-8-20-1966.png\" alt=\"Newspaper cutting of advertisement for a Selmer Buzz Tone, dated August 8th 1966.\" class=\"wp-image-115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/selmer-buzz-tone-mm-8-20-1966.png 478w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/selmer-buzz-tone-mm-8-20-1966-269x300.png 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/melody-maker-december-17th-1966.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"324\" data-id=\"3593\" src=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/melody-maker-december-17th-1966.png\" alt=\"Newspaper cutting of advertisement for a Selmer Buzz Tone, dated December 17th 1966.\" class=\"wp-image-3593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/melody-maker-december-17th-1966.png 299w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/melody-maker-december-17th-1966-277x300.png 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is unknown for how long the Buzz Tone remained in production, but the basic fuzz circuit from the Buzz Tone was eventually redesigned, and it found its way into Selmer&#8217;s more sophisticated Fuzz-wah pedal, which was introduced in 1968.<span id='easy-footnote-2-109' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/buzztone#easy-footnote-bottom-2-109' title='Beat Instrumental, March 1968, p. 26'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> The very low number of extant Selmer Buzz Tone pedals suggests that the model might not have been manufactured at the same sort of scale as some of Selmer&#8217;s contemporaries.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tech specs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-4.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"792\" data-id=\"3592\" src=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-4-1024x792.webp\" alt=\"1966 Selmer Buzz Tone.\" class=\"wp-image-3592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-4-1024x792.webp 1024w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-4-300x232.webp 300w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-4-768x594.webp 768w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-4-1536x1188.webp 1536w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-4.webp 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-5.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"603\" data-id=\"3591\" src=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-5-1024x603.webp\" alt=\"1966 Selmer Buzz Tone.\" class=\"wp-image-3591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-5-1024x603.webp 1024w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-5-300x177.webp 300w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-5-768x452.webp 768w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-5-1536x904.webp 1536w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Selmer-Buzz-Tone-5.webp 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Prior to the surge in demand for fuzz boxes in 1965, Selmer were already offering Gibson\u2019s <em>Maestro Fuzz-Tone<\/em> to the British market,<span id='easy-footnote-3-109' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/buzztone#easy-footnote-bottom-3-109' title='Beat Instrumental, January 1965, p. 25'><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> and so it comes as little surprise that the pedal of their own was both visually and electronically inspired by its American counterpart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Just like Gibson&#8217;s earlier fuzz box, the Selmer Buzz Tone featured a three-transistor circuit, and the components were also mounted to an eyelet board. Buzz Tones also came equipped with a hard-wired input cable, and were housed in a heavy, steel enclosure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The bottom cover can be rather difficult to remove when replacing batteries in the Selmer Buzz Tone. That, along with the precarious manner in which the two halves of the enclosure are connected together, by the wiring of the circuit, offers a possible explanation for why so few examples of the Buzz Tone have survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">It&#8217;s unclear what sort of supply voltage Selmer intended for the Buzz Tone to run off. Selmer&#8217;s factory schematic (pictured below) recommends 3 volts, whereas an early advertisement states 1.5 volts.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/buzz.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"848\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/buzz.jpeg\" alt=\"Factory schematic for Selmer Buzz Tone.\" class=\"wp-image-110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/buzz.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/buzz-300x176.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/buzz-768x450.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">European connections<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">A number of original examples of the Buzz Tone have since resurfaced in Germany and in Switzerland, so it\u2019s possible (but unconfirmed) that Selmer might have offered their fuzz box to international markets in addition to Britain&#8217;s. Selmer\u2019s relationship with the H\u00f6fner company in Germany lends weight to this theory, particularly, given that H\u00f6fner would go on to release their own version of the Buzz Tone in 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Selmer Buzz Tone pictured below \u2014 with non-original knobs, and a circuit that has presumably been rebuilt at some point \u2014 formerly belonged to the Krautrock group, Amon D\u00fc\u00fcl II. (Credit: A. Dehn)<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/amonduul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/amonduul.jpg\" alt=\"Selmer Buzz Tone, formerly owned by Amon D\u00fc\u00fcl II. (Photo credit: A. Dehn)\" class=\"wp-image-293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/amonduul.jpg 694w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/amonduul-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/amonduul-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pink Floyd<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">A popular talking point about the Selmer Buzz Tone is its speculative link with Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd famously used Selmer amplifiers early on in their career, and there\u2019s a long-standing rumour that Syd Barrett used the Buzz Tone during his brief period with the group. Unfortunately there\u2019s no direct evidence yet to substantiate this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Syd Barrett was photographed on two occasions using a British-built Sola Sound Tone Bender (as opposed to an Italian-built Vox Tone Bender, as some publications incorrectly state), and he also revealed in an interview to have at one point been using a \u201chome-made\u201d fuzz box.<span id='easy-footnote-4-109' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/buzztone#easy-footnote-bottom-4-109' title='Melody Maker, 26th August 1967, p. 10'><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Nevertheless, the possibility that Barrett may briefly have performed, recorded, or otherwise experimented with a Selmer Buzz Tone remains open, and I would greatly welcome any further evidence to support it.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-sunset-orange-color has-text-color\">Share your fuzz!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I welcome any comments, feedback, queries &amp; corrections in relation to the Fuzzboxes.org project. Please get in touch via this contact form (or on the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzboxes.org\/contact\">contact<\/a>&#8216; page).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of our understanding of the development of 1960s fuzz boxes comes from analysis of surviving pedals themselves, and so photos of pedals belonging to readers are particularly useful in furthering this research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to contribute pictures of 1960s-era guitar effects to Fuzzboxes.org, then feel free to send in any pictures via the uploader below. 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