[PLAYING ELECTRIC GUITAR]
Hi.
I'm Stan with Fender.
We're here today with Josh Smith.
Hey, Stan.
We're looking at a really cool pedal.
It's the Trapper Dual Fuzz.
The Trapper has two sections to it.
There's a more traditional fuzz that has an octave up switch,
and then there's this crazy gated function
that we'll get into in a minute.
But Josh, why don't we go through the clean bypass tone.
And tell us what you're playing.
JOSH SMITH: I'm playing a Vintera series '60s Strat
through a '68 Custom Deluxe Reverb.
[PLAYING ELECTRIC GUITAR]
All right.
In the opening segment we had the octave fuzz.
I'm going to kick it back on again.
And while you're playing, I'll switch the octave switch
on and off so people can hear what it sounds like.
OK.
I'll get started on a neck pickup up the neck.
[PLAYING ELECTRIC GUITAR]
Some good chaos in there.
Yeah.
Let's walk through the tone controls.
This pedal has two different tone controls.
There's one called contour, and that
balances from treble frequencies to bass frequencies.
So it can go from extremely shrill, to really woofie.
If you want to play, I'll--
Yeah.
I'll keep repeating something.
STAN COTEY: Yeah.
[PLAYING ELECTRIC GUITAR]
There's also a tone control that affects the high end
and controls fizz.
JOSH SMITH: All right.
[PLAYING ELECTRIC GUITAR]
That control has a lot of range,
which is useful if you have amps that are super bright.
You can tame them, and make it still a warm sound.
Yeah.
All right.
So I'm going to turn the gain down a little bit
and show some of the more subtle sounds of the fuzz size,
but I'll keep it on the octave setting.
JOSH SMITH: All right.
[PLAYING ELECTRIC GUITAR]
Well, let's look at the other side of it.
The other side is crazy.
It's a super, super high gain fuzz circuit,
and it's got a really strong noise gate part of it.
So it spits and sputters and coughs and it's
very greatly affected by both your playing technique,
and the volume control position.
Yeah, depending on where I set my volume or how hard I play,
you get a lot of different stuff.
So like, here's volume full up.
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You get that infamous sustain it's the same.
But same volume up--
if I play light--
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--you get that glitchy gated effect.
Yeah, like all the chattery-- almost broken sounding.
JOSH SMITH: And then with the volume rolled down, you get--
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It's almost horn-like in a way.
It's very much horn-like.
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One thing you can do with the tone controls that's kind
of fun is, if you roll the contour control way over
towards the trebly side, and then you back the tone control
down, it can get really small and mid-rangy and you could
just tuck, kind of, back in the back of a track if you
don't want to be front and center.
[PLAYING ELECTRIC GUITAR]
JOSH SMITH: Yeah.
STAN COTEY: Yeah.
That's like how you'd EQ something in a track.
Yeah, just to make it sit.
This pedal, like all the pedals in the series,
has illuminated knobs.
There's a switch on the back-- you
can get rid of the illumination if you need to.
So that's our look at the Trapper.
Josh, man, thanks for stopping by.
Thanks, Stan.
Man, that was a great one.
Cool.
Visit fender.com for more information on the Trapper,
as well as the full line of Fender pedals.
Josh, you want to play us out and we'll just
work through all the sounds?
Absolutely.
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