RUSSIAN FACE

Following the success of the first rash of Maestro-inspired fuzzes, by the mid-60s a new template had emerged in the form of the two-transistor fuzz, and it was to cast a long shadow over the shape of fuzz to come. Given that this "new" circuit could be found in practically any electronics textbook of the time (under the not too compelling name of shunt-series negative feedback amplifier), the real debate about who got there first (Vox, Sola Sound or Dallas-Arbiter) seems a bit moot.