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FUZZ PEDALS

BSRI Audio TFZ Fuzz

The TFZ is a vintage transistor-based fuzz by Baltimore Sonic Research Institute (aka BSRI), a company whose name sounds like some kind of government-supported facility, but that's actually just one dude called David Gill who is into Doom Metal. Rather, it's more than a fuzz, since David wanted to create…... Click for more

BSRI Audio TFZ Fuzz

Flattley Solaris Pro Fuzz

This rather gorgeous-looking high-end Big Muff-style fuzz with extra boost footswitch comes from Gloucester, UK's Flatley Pedals, and it's called Solaris Pro. The pedal shares the controls of its muse, but with a lot more gain added to the Sustain knob, so that the amount of distortion can be easily…... Click for more

Flattley Solaris Pro Fuzz

Vaderin Pedals HP-X Harmonic Percolator-style Fuzz

Estimators of the vintage Harmonic Percolator now have a new option to get that venerable fuzz sound in their sonic arsenal: the Vaderin Pedals HP-X. Deceptively simple, this pedal offers the traditional two controls of the original plus a 3-way clipping switch. However, the two knobs (Harmonics/input and Balance/output) have…... Click for more

Vaderin Pedals HP-X Harmonic Percolator-style Fuzz

Expandora Squared Overdrive/Distortion/Fuzz

The original Expandora pedal was a round, sonically multifaceted dirt box released in the mid-'90s by Japanese builder Bixonic. It's now being reissued and relaunched by a New Jersey-based company that's also offering a "squared" version of it, hosted in a compact orange enclosure. Although the original wasn't particularly successful,…... Click for more

Expandora Squared Overdrive/Distortion/Fuzz

Wren and Cuff Blue Caprid Muff

Vintage Muff replicas are something particularly inspiring for pedal builder, but Wren and Cuff has developed a particularly good reputation in this very specific niche. Their recently reissued Caprid (the one with red signs, first in production between 2012 and 2017) is an uber-authentic recreation of the highly sought after…... Click for more

Wren and Cuff Blue Caprid Muff

Fender The Trapper Dual Fuzz

Fender's The Trapper is a modern, flexible dual fuzz with an octave-up switch. The two channels can be alternated by pressing the Select footswitch. The first fuzz has a softer voice and the optional octave-up, while the second one is grittier-sounding and features an interactive automatic noise gate. Tone and…... Click for more

Fender The Trapper Dual Fuzz

Wrought Iron Effects H-1 Germanium Carrier Rocket Fuzz

Lovers of crazy fuzz pedals may want to pay attention to this classy-looking fuzz by Wrought Iron Effects, named H-1 Germanium Carrier Rocket and inspired by the soviet moon rocket that exploded 100 meters off the launch pad, "causing one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in human history." This,…... Click for more

Wrought Iron Effects H-1 Germanium Carrier Rocket Fuzz

Ground Control Audio Locust Fuzz

We covered Montreal's Ground Control Audio back in 2017 in this manufacturer profile, but the company has been adding several new pedals since then. However, the Locust is one of the builder's earliest designs. This fuzz pushes discrete silicon amplification into loud and sluggish distortion territory. The two mid-notch depth…... Click for more

Ground Control Audio Locust Fuzz

EarthQuaker Devices Data Corrupter

The EarthQuaker Devices Data Corrupter is a Modulated Monophonic PLL Harmonizer with modulation. This ain't a simple pedal to describe in a few words, but we can certainly tell you that it belongs to EQD's tradition of experimental and even "synthy" stompboxes. Here's the intro from EQD's website: It takes…... Click for more

EarthQuaker Devices Data Corrupter

Spiral Electric FX Demhe Fuzz

The Demhe Fuzz is the first pedal by Spiral Electric FX hosted in a compact case, and it's a streamlined version of its big sibling the Demhe Shadow, a custom revision of the company's Black Rose Fuzz, intended for high(er) gain amps. An extremely flexible silicon fuzz with dual voicing…... Click for more

Spiral Electric FX Demhe Fuzz

McGregor Pedals Cozmic Fuzzball

The Cozmic Fuzzball from Vancouver's McGregor Pedals is a personal, high-end take on the gnarliest of pedal effects, stacking hard clipping with soft clipping and adding an overdriven transistor to deliver a range of tones from distortion to increasingly sustained fuzz. Somewhat misleadingly, the Attack knob controls the amount of…... Click for more

McGregor Pedals Cozmic Fuzzball

Swamp Witch Pedals Rattle Bones

For your daily dose of fuzz, here's a few minutes in the company of the Swamp Witch Pedals Rattle Bones. Interestingly, in this circuit, which features an internal dual distortion circuit, there are no clipping diodes, but the distortion is generated through "destructive wave interference." This is what the controls…... Click for more

Swamp Witch Pedals Rattle Bones