There's a pretty wide (and expanding) range of Fuzzface tones...even before one delves into the world of alternative takes on the various models through the years, marketed under a huge list of names, and germanium=buzz/silicon=sizzle generalizations don't always apply. But when we're talking about a tone that's not going to be subjected to a great deal of amp "coloring", I like the more recent generations of germanium-based fuzzboxes. Prescription Electronics made some of my favorites...including the love-it-or-hate-it "Experience" (fuzz w/ one octave up and what was marketed as a "reverse tape effect" that, while not really sounding much at all like reversed tape, is big cool). I have my eye on a TenTen Triangle now (or maybe a Malekko b:Assmaster...or maybe an Earthquaker Hoof Reaper...), and usually, for a long while after I get a new toy, it's my favorite.

Of course, a Maestro (I have a slight preference for the ones with the big turn-with-your-foot side knobs) into a Kustom is a tone that never gets old...not to these ears, anyway.