Album or performance credits for fuzz bass can be found from every decade since then (see examples below).įuzz bass can be produced by overloading a bass amp's tube or transistor preamplifier, by using a bass fuzz or bass overdrive effect pedal, or for the most powerful effect, by combining both approaches. Two well-known examples are the Beatles' 1965 song ' Think for Yourself' (from Rubber Soul), which marked the first instance of a bass guitar being recorded through a distortion unit, and the 1966 Rolling Stones song ' Under My Thumb'.

One of the earliest examples may be the 1961 Marty Robbins Country and Western song 'Don't Worry.' By the mid- to late-1960s, a number of bands began to list 'fuzz bass' in addition to 'electric bass' on their album credits. Overdriving a bass signal significantly changes the timbre, adds higher overtones (harmonics), increases the sustain, and, if the gain is turned up high enough, creates a 'breaking up' sound characterized by a growling, buzzy tone. Bill Wyman in one of the earliest uses of this type of guitar played with a growling fuzz bass tone on the 1966 Rolling Stones song ' Under My Thumb' from their album Aftermath.įuzz bass, also called ' bass overdrive' or ' bass distortion', is a style of playing the electric bass or modifying its signal that produces a buzzy, distorted, overdriven sound, which the name implies in an onomatopoetic fashion.

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