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FUZZ PEDALS

Audio Kitchen Fake Plastic Trees

Audio Kitchen is a boutique amp and pedal builder based in the UK that focuses on their own, scrupulously engineered designs, deliberately avoiding to "pay homage" to existing classics. The Fake Plastic Trees overdrive/distortion/fuzz is a solid state version of the line out of their own popular The Big Trees…... Click for more

Audio Kitchen Fake Plastic Trees

Telesonic Professional MKII Germanium Fuzz

The Telesonic Professional MKII Germanium Fuzz is a quality, hand-crafted Tone Bender clone made in Russia with Alpha potentiometres, Soviet vintage NOS MP15A germanium transistors matched by leakage and hfe. It has a Bias trimmer inside the box. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwHTA8UWtBs ... Click for more

Telesonic Professional MKII Germanium Fuzz

Bowman Audio Endeavors Satan’s Fingers

The Satan's Fingers is a Face Fuzz-style circuit by Bowman Audio Endeavors: the Silicon circuit produces nasal and spitty tones even more extreme than the original vintage unit, with a volume knob that lets you ride the amount of fuzz just like the guitar knob. Check out the video, below.…... Click for more

Bowman Audio Endeavors Satan’s Fingers

Fuzzrocious Electric Ocean Fuzz+Phaser

Intended as a love letter to the bulky yet legendary Roland AP-7, the Fuzzrocious | Electric Ocean is a fuzz+phaser built in collaboration with Dunwich Amplification that offers some of the most popular features of that venerable unit, with a modern angle. Here's a photo of the controls, slightly hidden…... Click for more

Fuzzrocious Electric Ocean Fuzz+Phaser

Black Mass Electronics Missionary Fuzz V2

The Missionary Fuzz V2 from Massachusetts' Black Mass Electronics hopefully won't convert you to any religion or cult, but it will definitely provide you with a flexible palette of tones while working well anywhere in your pedal chain. Here's some wise advice from the builder in this regard: Keep it…... Click for more

Black Mass Electronics Missionary Fuzz V2

Deep Space Devices Dust Fuzz/Glitch Looper

We are happy to see Deep Space Devices back in action after a break with a new intriguind pedal called Dust. The Alabama-based one-man company won our Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit's "Best Emerging Builder" contest back when real life was a thing. Dust is a one-knob pedal that seems to do…... Click for more

Deep Space Devices Dust Fuzz/Glitch Looper

Sabbadius Triple Trouble V2

The Triple Trouble is an Overdrive+Booster+Fuzz pedal by Argentinean boutique builder Sabbadius that was discontinued a few years ago. The company just announced the upcoming release of V2. Counterintuitively, the silicon transistor fuzz is first in the chain, followed by a Tube Screamer-style overdrive and then the boost. The three…... Click for more

Sabbadius Triple Trouble V2

Electro-Harmonix Green Russian Big Muff Pi

A classic fuzz stompbox returns, in a compact case format! The Electro Harmonix Green Big Muff Pi is a faithful reissue of the legendary Green Russian Big Muff from the mid-1990s. In the Big Muff family, this is probably the bassiest one, with a unique sludge and sizzle. Hear the…... Click for more

Electro-Harmonix Green Russian Big Muff Pi

Fender Pelt Fuzz

Fender's Pelt Fuzz is a classic silicon fuzz with a series of added tonal controls: two toggle switches called Mid and Thick allow the player to boost the effect's frequencies respectively in the mid and low range, while a more a classic Tone control knob deals with the overall brightness. However, the…... Click for more

Fender Pelt Fuzz

New Pedal: Acorn Amplifiers TMA-1 Fuzz

Operating out of Atlanta, Georgia, Acorn Amplifiers crafts hand-made amps and pedals. The TMA-1 is, to date, their most involved foray into the world of fuzz, a four-stage transistor circuit that, quite uniquely, lets you select the clipping options for two of those stages (precisely, the second and third). The…... Click for more

New Pedal: Acorn Amplifiers TMA-1 Fuzz

Stone Deaf FX Q Boost/Distortion

Father and son British pedal builders Stone Deaf FX released some ingenious and imaginative stompboxes in the past, but today they unveiled something rather simple yet extremely intriguing. At a first look, the (Mickey Mouse-themed) Q Boost appears to be a simple boost pedal/preamp with an extra, sweepable mid-frequency boost,…... Click for more

Stone Deaf FX Q Boost/Distortion

Pedal Pawn Fuzz Germanium LTD Edition

UK's Pedal Pawn is a success story in today's challenging boutique pedal builder environment. The company just unveiled a pricey, limited edition Germanium Version of their popular Fuzz through an exclusive Reverb release (you can buy it here). There are only 50 units of this baby and they'll go out…... Click for more

Pedal Pawn Fuzz Germanium LTD Edition