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FUZZ PEDALS
OUR FUZZ SHOPPING GUIDES:
• 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

FUZZ CATEGORIES (Blog Posts)
Latest Muff-Style Fuzzes | Latest Fuzz-Face-style Fuzzes | Latest Tone Bender-inspired Fuzzes | Latest Super-Fuzz-inspired Fuzzes | Latest Octave-Up Fuzzes | Latest Gated Fuzzes | Latest Foxx Tone Machine-inspired Fuzzes.

Below, the latest news about fuzz pedals

Dr. Scientist Frazz Dazzler

Hailing from Canada, the Dr. Scientist Frazz Dazzler is a flexible high-distortion/fuzz pedal with controls optimized for live use - the parallel fuzz blend allows to mix clean and distorted signal via expression pedal, while a second footswitch will activate a second Gain knob (with embedded noise gate) for even…Click on the title for more

Dr. Scientist Frazz Dazzler

New Pedal: Spun Loud Effects Structures Fvzz

Uniquely inspired by a... beer (the FVZZ IPA by Bellingham, WA's Structures Brewing) the Spun Loud Effects Structures Fvzz is a two-stage, handmade fuzz circuit with germanium clipping and plenty of gain on tap. The peculiar circuit allows tons of flexibility and can act as an overdrive at lower gain…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Spun Loud Effects Structures Fvzz

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

Fairfield Circuitry Roger That RF Distortion

The Fairfield Circuitry Roger That, a distortion inspired by FM radio communication, is another intriguing and imaginative pedal by a Canadian company with an uncanny ability to design original yet rather intuitive effect circuits, outside all trends. Using an "FM modulation and demodulation scheme," the Roger generates tones ranging from…Click on the title for more

Fairfield Circuitry Roger That RF Distortion

New Pedal: Lauren Audio B100 Console Fuzz

Before fuzz pedals existed, expert engineers with experimental inclinations could achieve fuzzy sounds by massively overloading their console preamps. The Lauren Audio B100is a fuzz inspired by the sound of a Neve B100 preamp card, found in the 1053 and similar channel strips. The topology of those preamps resembles a…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Lauren Audio B100 Console Fuzz

Weird Noise What The Fuzz

Based in Astoria, OR, Weird Noise Pedals chose a name that leaves no room for misunderstanding: these folks aren't afraid to get loud and quirky. Their provocatively named WTF pedal (don't worry, it's an acronym for "What a Fuzz!") is a simple 3-knob/2-mode fuzz with a noteworthy range. Those three…Click on the title for more

Weird Noise What The Fuzz

Way Huge Swollen Pickle Smalls MKIII Fuzz

Way Huge's Muff-style fuzz series has gotten a new smaller version, the Way Huge Swallen Pickle Smalls, aka MkIII, which replicates the venerable fuzz circuit adding - you guessed it - more tone-shaping possibilities. Instead of the standard Muff "tone" knob, the typical Loudness and Sustain controls are integrated with a…Click on the title for more

Way Huge Swollen Pickle Smalls MKIII Fuzz

Best Big Muff Pedals in 2024: Reissues, Clones & Evolutions

TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to jump) Click image for Video. 1969 "Triangle" Big Muff Pi (used by Jimi Hendrix) Back to List of Categories Earthquaker Devices Hoof The pedal that put Earthquaker on the map. Jamie Stillman’s first pedal is loosely based on a specific green Russian Muff belonging to…Click on the title for more

Best Big Muff Pedals in 2024: Reissues, Clones & Evolutions

EarthQuaker + Death by Audio Time Shadows II

Released in limited numbers in 2021 as a marketing stunt to promote Reverb.com’s The Pedal Movie, the Time Shadows is a filter pedal engineered by two of the edgiest stompbox brands in the US: Ohio’s EarthQuaker Devices and NYC’s Death By Audio. The two companies are now unveiling an update, Time Shadows II, which adds welcome features such…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker + Death by Audio Time Shadows II

StoneDeafFX Rise & Shine Fuzz + Tremolo

The StoneDeafFX Rise & Shine is an octave fuzz that blends vintage tone with modern technology, with a twist. A digitally controlled fuzz pedal, it is at its heart a classic octave-up fuzz, but integrated with a dynamic octapulse tremolo that allows it to go well beyond your typical fuzz…Click on the title for more

StoneDeafFX Rise & Shine Fuzz + Tremolo

Life is Unfair / Pedal Partners’ Violet Oscillation

A collaborative limited edition pedal involving a British boutique builder and a YouTube channel focused on pedals, the Life is Unfair / Pedal Partners' Violet Oscillation is a hand-made limited edition fuzz pedal created for the grating yet dreamy soundscape of shoegaze rock. At least in part inspired by the…Click on the title for more

Life is Unfair / Pedal Partners’ Violet Oscillation

New Pedal: Catalinbread Perseus Dio Octave Down Fuzz

The world is full of octave-up fuzzes that cut through dense arrangements. the Catalinbread Perseus Dio V2, an octave-down fuzz, won’t do that, but it will provide audacious guitarists with a unique synth tone for the ages. (Here’s a list of other octave-down pedals we covered in the blog). This new version (the original came…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Catalinbread Perseus Dio Octave Down Fuzz