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• Best Crazy, Weird and Unusual Fuzz Pedals
• Best Muff-Style Fuzz Pedals
• Best Fuzz Face-Style Pedals
• Best Tone Bender-Style Fuzz Pedals
• Best Super-Fuzz-Style Pedals
• Best Octavia Clones and Evolutions
• Best Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz Tone Clones and Evolutions
• Best Foxx Tone Machine Clones and Evolutions
• Best Harmonic Percolator Clones and Evolutions
• Best Boss Tone Clones and Evolutions
• Best Fuzzrite Clones and Evolutions
• Best Burns Buzzaround Clones and Evolutions

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Below, the latest news about fuzz pedals

Stomping Stones – Haxan Fuzztortion

The Haxan by Stompbing Stones Pedals, is a vintage-voiced distortion/fuzz with some unusual controls (and parts: its circuit uses NOS military can opamps!): on top of your regular volume and gain knobs, it features two clipping modes, an extra boost, and bright/dark voicing options selectable via toggle switches. The two…Click on the title for more

Stomping Stones – Haxan Fuzztortion

Stomp Under Foot MCG73 Fuzz

Here's something for those who can't resist the call of a sexy muff tone! The MCG73, by Windermere, FL's Stomp Under Foot, is a clone of a vintage 1973 Ram's Head Big Muff. In the builder's own words: very distinct fuzz tone has a blooming, wooly grit on chords and…Click on the title for more

Stomp Under Foot MCG73 Fuzz

New Pedals: Wilson Effects NotRite Fuzz

Guilford, Indiana's Wilson Effects just released a new fuzz called NotRite, a modern take on the Fuzzrite circuit and its "two fuzz into one" approach. As you can hear from the demo below, the results are gnarly and doomy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rJC6hjzscc The NotRite is a Fuzzrite inspired circuit that is capable…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Wilson Effects NotRite Fuzz

Keeley Electronics Fuzz Bender

One of four new pedals Keeley presented at NAMM 2019, the Fuzz Bender was probably the most hyped of the bunch - at least according to our readers, since it placed 11th in our poll about the best stompboxes of 2019. It's a three-transistor hybrid fuzz utilizing the higher gain…Click on the title for more

Keeley Electronics Fuzz Bender

New For NAMM 2020: TWA Microchasm Octave Box Fuzz

Octave circuit from the TWA Great Divide. Octave down, up, filtering, and Octavia-style features allow the user to select from many different, classic, octave effects. Accepts external footswitch for “solo” mode, which allows the player to turn add the octave effect as desired. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5WJpYEFZyI https://godlyke.comClick on the title for more

New For NAMM 2020: TWA Microchasm Octave Box Fuzz

New For NAMM 2020: Fuzzrocious Maggotor Gated Fuzz

A gated fuzz "decomposer” that can also be played on its own, using the surface mounted springs, or just by banging on the case. As a fuzz box it’s too many types of gnarly to describe. A collaboration which combines Fuzzrocious' Baby Furnace with Electro-Faustus' Blackfly. Limited production! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lraOwgjRelw https://youtu.be/9-UA7bkq3LA Fuzzrocious…Click on the title for more

New For NAMM 2020: Fuzzrocious Maggotor Gated Fuzz

New Pedals: SolidGoldFX Communication Breakdown Dual Bender Fuzz

Visitors of our Montreal Stompbox Exhibit (part of MUTEK's Sonic Circuits), had a chance to try out the prototype of local builder SolidGoldFX's Communication Breakdown Fuzz. This is a circuit that includes two similar but different fuzz circuits inspired by the legendary Tone Bender Fuzz that can be stacked on…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: SolidGoldFX Communication Breakdown Dual Bender Fuzz

Stone Deaf PDF-1X Limited Edition

An original design offering Parametric EQ, Clean Boost, Distortion and Fuzz, Stone Deaf FX's PDF (Parametric Distortion Filter) is the most popular pedal of this British boutique builder, which is releasing a PDF-1X Limited Edition to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The 200 units come with custom graphics and signatures from…Click on the title for more

Stone Deaf PDF-1X Limited Edition

Randale Pedale Buzztard OD/Distortion/Fuzz

Randale Pedale's Buzztard is a RAT inspired pedal with an added NPN Germanium transistor that takes it further into fuzz territory. It can also deliver overdrive and distortion dirt just like the original rodent, with and added three-way EQ section to dial in the desired or necessary tone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFPFw7qOMuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERyUH2wWD0k…Click on the title for more

Randale Pedale Buzztard OD/Distortion/Fuzz

SolidGoldFX Lysis – octave down fuzz with modulation

The SolidGoldFX Lysis (hosted in our own Stombpx Booth!) was one of the most hyped about pedals of NAMM 2019, thanks to the fact that Andy from Reverb.com included it in his Best of NAMM pedals video (at the bottom of the demo list, in this page). This wild stompbox…Click on the title for more

SolidGoldFX Lysis – octave down fuzz with modulation

Dropping Acid Pedal Etching #rip boost

Dropping Acid Pedal Etching is a small builder that, up until now, was mostly busy modding and recreating effect circuits made popular by other manufacturers. The #rip, an LM386 based Op-Amp distortion, is their first foray into creating a fully original circuit. This device can do different things but all…Click on the title for more

Dropping Acid Pedal Etching #rip boost

JHS Cheese Ball Fuzz

Some pedal circuits are able to capture the ear of guitarists (and in this case also bassists) in ways that others can't. The British Lovetone Big Cheese, one of the first hand-wired boutique fuzz of the '90s, had the ability to do just that for iconic personalities like The Edge…Click on the title for more

JHS Cheese Ball Fuzz