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Fuzz Octave Up Pedals

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 on the title for more

Fender The Trapper Dual Fuzz

Electronic Audio Experiments & Mask Audio Electronics Eldritch Blast Octave Fuzz

If your arsenal of fuzz pedals is out of control, the Electronic Audio Experiments & Mask Audio Electronics | Eldritch Blast should be a good excuse for you to make it slightly MORE so. How could you possibly resist the temptation to get something that, according to the manufacturer, "sound…Click on the title for more

Electronic Audio Experiments & Mask Audio Electronics Eldritch Blast Octave Fuzz

Producing with Pedals: Sehat Effectors Moisture Fuzz and Masjidil Echo

Producing with Pedals is a series about using guitar pedals in creative applications when recording and mixing. Usually, I take a pedal and write a song with it, using the pedal on every instrument. In my most recent episode, I feature a builder from Indonesia who is making some of…Click on the title for more

Producing with Pedals: Sehat Effectors Moisture Fuzz and Masjidil Echo

Hilbish T-Fuzz 2-Mode Octave Fuzz

Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, Hilbish Designs is a builder of amps, preamps, and very colorful guitar pedals with a knack for dirt boxes. Their T-Fuzz is a simple, two-knob and two-mode octave fuzz pedal delivering a range of tones from classic (red mode) to sputtery (green mode). It just received…Click on the title for more

Hilbish T-Fuzz 2-Mode Octave Fuzz

Vaderin Pedals Vaporizer Octave-Up Fuzz

Those who among you are in love with the word "gnarly" may have found a new best friend - or maybe a new "lover"?? - in the Vaderin Pedals Vaporizer Fuzz. We would be seriously remiss if we didn't warn you, though, that the creator himself warns that this octave-up…Click on the title for more

Vaderin Pedals Vaporizer Octave-Up Fuzz

Blammo! Slob Clean Octave Blend Fuzz

Portland (OR) based Blammo! Electronics just unveiled a new pedal inspired by the very popular (and very pricey) circuit of the Prescription Electronics COB - an acronym that stands for Clean Octave Blend. Enter the Slob, a hand-made $149 compact clone of the COB with a few updates like soft…Click on the title for more

Blammo! Slob Clean Octave Blend Fuzz

Dusky Augustus Octave Fuzz

Inspired by a Roman emperor with a knack for territorial expansion and also by the Octavia Fuzz circuit designed by Roger Mayer in the late '60s, the Dusky Augustus is a reimagined octave fuzz, whose MOSFET input and output amplifiers and high impedance input buffer make it more flexible, responsive,…Click on the title for more

Dusky Augustus Octave Fuzz

Danelectro 3699 Fuzz

The 3699 Fuzz is a faithful recreation, and a tribute of the vintage FOXX Tone Machine of the 1970s ("3699" spells out "FOXX" on the telephone keypad, and that was the last 4 digits of the company phone number back in the day). The originals today sell for over $600,…Click on the title for more

Danelectro 3699 Fuzz

Bardic Audio Oathbreaker

Bardic Audio Devices is an emerging pedal builder run by a young, Michigan-based developer called Tim Novak. The man is really into D&D, so we shouldn't be surprised to find references to the role game both in the name of his company and products ("Bardics" were Celtic minstrels). The Oathbreaker…Click on the title for more

Bardic Audio Oathbreaker

Now Shipping: One Control Rocket Grey Fuzz

A curiously shaped Octave Up fuzz by One Control, the Rocket Grey Fuzz celebrates the 50th anniversary of fuzz and features two footswitches to control separately the two circuits, plus Volume and Intensity knobs. Perhaps the most intriguing feature about this pedal is that its input circuit automatically optimizes its…Click on the title for more

Now Shipping: One Control Rocket Grey Fuzz

The 5 Most Pupular Fuzz Pedals of All Time: Compare Five Classic Circuits

Don't miss our uber-thorough guide to the best fuzz pedals, organized by circuit! --- The Little Big Muff is based on the company's Big Muff Pi, first issued in 1970, and features the same circuitry, which produces distortion using silicon transistors. The pedal’s high levels of gain overload the circuit…Click on the title for more

The 5 Most Pupular Fuzz Pedals of All Time: Compare Five Classic Circuits

Wampler Fuzztration Fuzz Workstation

Pedal "workstations" focused on one specific effect have been around for years, yet nobody has yet come out with such a pedal for fuzz. Wampler's new Fuzztration is an attempt to deliver exactly that: a do-it-all fuzz box. The Fuzztron doesn't feature "multi-mode" algorhythms like your favorite Strymon pedals, but packs…Click on the title for more

Wampler Fuzztration Fuzz Workstation