![]() ![]() Hurst went into business with Macari’s music shop on Denmark street in London and created the brand Sola Sound, which still manufactures Tone Bender reissues in their classic wedge-shaped enclosures to this day. It had just two controls: level and attack, or fuzz. The Tone Bender was also one of the first pedals to use true bypass switching. To meet the demand amongst guitar players, Vox engineer Gary Hurst designed a three transistor fuzz circuit based on the Fuzz Tone, but cranked the voltage up from 3v to 9v to achieve more sustain and volume. Jimmy Page, an in-demand session player at the time, loved his Fuzz Tone and played it on numerous recording sessions around this time. There was a need in Britain for something similar to the FZ-1, because fuzz guitar could be heard all over recordings by popular bands such as The Yardbirds, The Beatles, and The Kinks. ![]() The original Sola Sound Tone Bender, click image for video, check for used units on Ebay and in 1965 in London, the Tone Bender was the UK’s answer to the Gibson Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz Tone, the very first mass-produced guitar pedal.
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