Electro-Harmonix Satisfaction Plus Fuzz Effects Pedal Black and Blue

I own a lot of fuzz pedals. This one comes off the shelf when I play Neil Young's Hey Hey My My and Like a Hurricane. Nails those songs.

I have an original Gibson Maestro Fuzz-Tone pedal from the 1960's and this Electro-Harmonix Satisfaction Plus pedal sounds similar —— not the same, but close. The original pedal gave a somewhat thin and raspy sounding fuzz distortion. The Satisfaction Plus has a similar thin raspy sound. You can certainly get that "Satisfaction", "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", "Spirit In The Sky" type of 1960's fuzz effect. I think the Satisfaction Plus sounds best with a humbucker equipped guitar. The BIAS control on the pedal may shock you when you first turn that knob; you'll hear a crackling sound as it's turned. The instruction manual states: "Turn it clockwise for a hollowed-out sound. You may hear scratching noises while turning the BIAS knob - this is normal for a transistor's bias change. The BIAS knob has a wide range, to create a gated sound with any guitar output level. With lower-output instruments, it's normal for high and low positions of the BIAS knob to not produce sound. This is inter-active with the ATTACK knob – turn ATTACK up to use a wider BIAS range." I'm not an audio engineer, so I don't know why that is the case. Don't be shocked when you hear that crackling sound. It's not broken. I personally like the sound of the pedal with the FAT switch on and the TONE control turned towards the bass end with the BIAS at 12-o'clock. I've tried it through a humbucker Les Paul and a Rickenbacker with single-coils. Of course they both sound different. I prefer the humbucker sound. You might also want to try an overdrive pedal after the Satisfaction Plus to further sculpt your sound.