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Ron Asheton
Asheton's early Stooges guitar sound centered on a Vox wah-wah and an Arbiter Fuzz Face feeding the high-volume amplifiers he used during 1968.
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Early Stooges fuzz-and-wah core
Eyewitness-documented effects inventory
Documented equipment · Reconstructed order · Serial path
Premier Guitar's oral history quotes Deniz Tek, who saw the Stooges in 1968, identifying both a Vox wah-wah and an Arbiter Fuzz Face in Asheton's rig. Mike Watt's separate recollection in the same feature connects Asheton's round fuzz and wah vocabulary to the guitarist's close study of Hendrix. In a direct 1998 interview published by Perfect Sound Forever, Asheton independently described using fuzz and wah during the experimental period from which the Stooges emerged. No surviving source establishes the jack-to-jack order or proves that these were the only floor effects, so this is a documented two-device core inventory; the displayed sequence follows the eyewitness enumeration and is not presented as cable-traced.