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New Pedal: Zorg Effects Glue Fuzz MkII

The first Glue Fuzz was a sleeper. Two fuzzes in one box—a Fuzz Face and an Octavia—with controls that made no sense until you twisted them and the whole room tilted sideways. Velcro sounds. Synth sputters. That weird in-between space where fuzz stops being fuzz and starts being something broken…... Click for more

New Pedal: Zorg Effects Glue Fuzz MkII

Hudson Electronics Broadcast AP-II

The Broadcast preamp pedal from UK builder Hudson Electronics has a stellar reputation and made several best-of lists when it came out a few years ago. The AP version of it, recently updated to the dual version, named Broadcast AP-II, is an evolution of the original design engineered in collaboration…... Click for more

Hudson Electronics Broadcast AP-II

New Pedal: Fuzzrocious Grey Stache/Heliotropic Double Fuzz

Let's get one thing straight right now. You're looking at a box that crams two completely separate fuzz circuits into one enclosure and sells the whole mess for less than what the Heliotropic alone used to cost. One-forty-five for the Grey Stache, two-ten for the Helio. Now you get both…... Click for more

New Pedal: Fuzzrocious Grey Stache/Heliotropic Double Fuzz

New Pedal: Blue FX Fuzz Field

Hand-built in Denmark, the Blue FX Fuzz Field is a daring experiment in interactive analog fuzz, presenting itself as a "playable and interactive modulated fuzz pedal" rather than a static distortion. Built around a dynamic, gated fuzz core, it specializes in chaotic, animated textures that respond directly to your playing…... Click for more

New Pedal: Blue FX Fuzz Field

Mask Audio Electronics MAYBE? Fuzz

A marriage of the company's two fuzz circuits named Yes and No, the appropriately named Maybe? is a super-tweakable dual fuzz. Each side can be played independently or stacked on top of the other. Judging from the builder's words, the destiny of this union is doomed to be destructive, at…... Click for more

Mask Audio Electronics MAYBE? Fuzz

Walrus Audio Silt Fuzz

Pedals with tubes in them are quite rare, and normally confined to the overdrive niche. The Walrus Audio Silt is a fuzz pedal with a 12AU7 tube in it, created in collaboration with tube expert Jim Hagerman of Hagerman Amplification. The Silt is a rather simple device, with the classic…... Click for more

Walrus Audio Silt Fuzz

New Pedal: Thorn Soundlab Black Swamp Flex Fuzz

Far from a static vintage emulation, the Nashville-made Thorn Soundlab Black Swamp fuzz establishes itself as a sovereign domain of fully analog, user-configurable saturation. It approaches distortion not as a fixed character, but as a flexible texture to be sculpted across the entire frequency spectrum. This philosophy is embodied in…... Click for more

New Pedal: Thorn Soundlab Black Swamp Flex Fuzz

New Pedal: FruitFX Pedals Melon Cube Synth Fuzz

In a landscape saturated with variations on classic circuits, the FruitFX Pedals Melon Cube presents a genuinely singular proposition. It functions as a pulse-width modulator (PWM), a circuit more commonly associated with synthesizers, applying its transformative square-wave generation directly to guitar. The result is a radical tonal recasting that sits…... Click for more

New Pedal: FruitFX Pedals Melon Cube Synth Fuzz

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix by JHS Big Muff 2

Archaeology in the analog domain rarely yields such a consequential artifact. Unearthed from a trove of personal archives during research for the forthcoming Electro-Harmonix tome, the Big Muff 2 is not a revision but a resurrected parallel evolution—a spectral blueprint from the mind of original inventor Bob Myer, finally realized…... Click for more

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix by JHS Big Muff 2

Mask Audio Electronic Part Garden Dual Fuzz

In this era dense with pedal collaborations, videographers have joined celebrity guitarists in working with builders on new, exciting stompboxes. The first example of this kind was, of course, the Chase Bliss Audio / Knobs collaboration on the recently finalized Blooper. This week we got news of a second item…... Click for more

Mask Audio Electronic Part Garden Dual Fuzz

Olinthus Earwig Fuzz

The Olinthus Earwig might be the most improbable fuzz pedal ever made. It defies the conventional wisdom that huge sounds require hefty enclosures, packing the entire sonic legacy of a classic American fuzz circuit into a stompbox smaller than a guitar pick. This isn't a miniaturized compromise; it's a full-throated…... Click for more

Olinthus Earwig Fuzz

TWA Wahxidizer Envelope Controlled Fuzz

The TWA Wahxidizer is a Univox Super Fuzz-inspired circuit with a host of filtering and tone sculpting features, an envelop controller linked to the filter, and two footswitchable filter settings. Its design was inspired by the bass fuzz sound of Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch in the band's song Gratitude -…... Click for more

TWA Wahxidizer Envelope Controlled Fuzz