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Eddie Hazel

Hazel recorded the ten-minute solo with wah and fuzz in the live guitar path; George Clinton created most of the track's echo treatment later during mixdown.

Board
Maggot Brain performance effects
Context
United Sound Systems, Detroit
Board date
Evidence
Reconstructed equipment · 3 cited sources
Order
Reconstructed
Scope
Core signal path
Routing
Serial path
Audited
Signal
2 units · Guitar to amplifier

Signal path / A

Maggot Brain performance effects

Effect types documented; models and order unresolved

InputGuitar
OutputAmplifier

Reconstructed equipment · Reconstructed order · Serial path

Fender's track history identifies both wah and fuzz in Hazel's recorded performance and quotes Clinton explaining that he added the Echoplex repeats and other effects during mixdown. Clinton separately told Premier Guitar that Hazel learned wah, Big Muff and phaser pedals from the beginning, but that broader rig memory does not prove which fuzz model was on this session. NPR's interview confirms that the band played live before Clinton stripped back the arrangement and layered the echo. The two performance effects are therefore shown with deliberately unverified model names. Their display order follows a common Hendrix-derived wah-into-fuzz layout and is not presented as a cable trace; Echoplex, phaser and flanger are excluded from Hazel's floor path.

Cited sources

  1. Premier GuitarParliament Funkadelic: a funk guitar roundtable
  2. FenderOne-Track Mind: the passion of Eddie Hazel and Funkadelic's Maggot Brain
  3. NPR / CapRadioMaggot Brain at 50: R&B, psychedelic rock and a Black guitarist's cry