Born in 1960 on accident during a Marty Robbins reocording, a transformer blew resulting in the first fuzz sound. The engineer in the studio Glenn Snoddy liked this sound and proceeding for the next two years trying to recreate this sound. Snoddy played with solid-state circuits discovering how the germanium transitor’s often outputted strange distorted sounds.

Two years later the circuit was sold to Gibson who is one of the largest guitar manufacturers in the world and the Mastro FZ-1 Fuzz Tone became commercially avaliable. Three years later the Rolling Stones recordered “( I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” putting Fuzz on the map.