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Fuzz Face Inspired

Dominion Electric Faceless Fuzz

The Dominion Electric Faceless Fuzz is a Canada-made, handbuilt pedal inspired, as you may have guessed, by the vintage Fuzz Face designed around quite literally "hand-picked" NOS Germanium/Silicon transistors and other quality components: the builder lets you pick from Texas Instruments BC183L (Silicon), Telefunken BC108C (Silicon). RCA 2N404 (Germanium) and…Click on the title for more

Dominion Electric Faceless Fuzz

Reeves Electro Facet IZ and FF

Hand-built in a workshop in a garden workshop in Northamptonshire, UK, the Reeves Electro Facet IZ is a (gorgeous-looking) Fuzz Face variant built around a pair of Micro Electronics C1016Y yellow dot silicon transistors. The case is screen-printed using glossy enamel ink. Adding a Tone control to the typical Fuzz Face…Click on the title for more

Reeves Electro Facet IZ and FF

Best Fuzz Face Clones and Evolutions in 2024

Best Fuzz Face Evolutions (Extra Features) As you may have noticed, the stompbox market is inundated with Fuzz pedals. If the Big Muff (click link for a sample of its gazillion versions, clones and evolutions) is the most popular device in this effect niche by far, the Fuzz Face deserves…Click on the title for more

Best Fuzz Face Clones and Evolutions in 2024

New Pedal: Catalinbread StarCrash Fuzz

A Fuzz Face evolution, the Catalinbread StarCrash Fuzz is one of two new pedals featured in the company's 6-pedal "''70s Collection" series, also including four older circuits with fresh new (green) looks. The circuit reimagines what the builders of the original Fuzz Face should have done when they famously decided to…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Catalinbread StarCrash Fuzz

New Pedal: Thorpy Tacit Blue Germanium Fuzz

Part of the UK company's "Vintage Reimagined" series, the Thorpy FX Tacit Blue is not a Blues Breaker variant (as the name might have suggested) but a Fuzz Face one. Beware, this is a highly modified circuit with a much broader sonic palette than the original, being able to deliver…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Thorpy Tacit Blue Germanium Fuzz

New Pedals: Thorpy FX Have Blue

Part of the UK company's "Vintage Reimagined" series, the Thorpy FX Have Blue is not a Blues Breaker variant (as the name might have suggested) but a Rangemaster one. Beware, this is a highly modified circuit that can do a lot more than boost your high frequencies. As a matter…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Thorpy FX Have Blue

MXR Hybrid Fuzz

The entire fuzz pedal niche is mostly based on variations on five or six vintage fuzz circuits (as you can read in our super comprehensive article about fuzz types). Considering the sheer yearly output of fuzz pedals, it seems like there's an underground world of engineers constantly modding those circuits…Click on the title for more

MXR Hybrid Fuzz

Tark Audio Squidink Multi-Octave PLL Fuzz

The Tark Audio Squidink is a multi-octave fuzz pedal made by a new company based in Portland, OR determined to create "products designed to help illuminate unexplored areas of sonic cartography." Sounds intriguing... The fuzz is a classic Fuzz Face-style circuit using low-gain Silicon PNP transistors. The multi-octave section of the…Click on the title for more

Tark Audio Squidink Multi-Octave PLL Fuzz

New Pedal: Kingtone Minifuzz V2

Recently upgraded to V2, the Kingtone Minifuzz is a vintage tone machine that uses the highest quality components and comes with tons of tweakable options so that you can capture any classic fuzz sound you’re looking for. The huge volume control allows you to crank the pedal onstage with your…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Kingtone Minifuzz V2

Poison Noises Glut Cheeks Fuzz

The Poison Noises Glut Cheeks is not a new pedal (it was released in mid 2022) but the exposure given to it by the JHS Show (video streaming below) is comparable to a re-release. Utilizing BC108 transistors, this pedal belongs to the growing category of "flexible" fuzz pedals, comprising circuits…Click on the title for more

Poison Noises Glut Cheeks Fuzz

Benson Germanium Fuzz

Portland's Benson Amps, makers of the very sought after Preamp pedal (whose circuit also ended up in the Chase Bliss Audio's first Automatone pedal), just unveiled a Germanium fuzz that's likely to make Fuzz Face lovers salivate. Germanium fuzz circuits have always been finicky due to their sensitivity to temperature…Click on the title for more

Benson Germanium Fuzz

Fjord Fuzz Hedda

The Fjord Fuzz Hedda is a two-knob Fuzz Face-inspired circuit designed to sound as dynamic as possible - which is not exactly a common thing for fuzz pedals, since they tend to sound extremely compressed. Company owner and engineer Daniel Thornhill, who's been focused for ten years to this date…Click on the title for more

Fjord Fuzz Hedda