The first Glue Fuzz was a sleeper. Two fuzzes in one box—a Fuzz Face and an Octavia—with controls that made no sense until you twisted them and the whole room tilted sideways. Velcro sounds. Synth sputters. That weird in-between space where fuzz stops being fuzz and starts being something broken in the best way.
Now they’ve rebuilt it. Everything’s bigger. Meaner. More. Enter the Zorg Effects Glue Fuzz MkII.
The octave up used to be a toggle. Now it’s a footswitch. You punch it mid-riff and suddenly you’re playing an octave above yourself, that weird almost-whammy thing when you’re up the neck on the neck pickup. The redesign fixed what was always just slightly off about the original octave—cleaner tracking, nastier top end.
Gain sweeps from “is this thing on?” to “the walls are bleeding.” The magic is in the cleanup. Roll your guitar volume back and it behaves. Dig in and it tries to eat your amp. That responsiveness—that’s the Germanium ghost in the machine. Except there’s no Germanium. It’s a special silicon setup that mimics the old Germanium behavior. Best of both worlds: the sag and the stability. The warmth and the reliability .
The tone stack is where they went completely unhinged. Two pots. Two switches. Endless. Mids can be boosted or cut at whatever frequency you’re chasing. The Tone knob sweeps from vintage wool to modern glass. And the Bass switch? At high gain, it overloads the circuit with low end. The fuzz compresses. Gets dirty in a new way. Gritty. Thick. Swollen.
Glue knob still does its thing. Still destroys the fuzz more or less depending on how you set it. Still makes those velcro sputters, those gated artifacts, that synthetic broken quality that defined the original . Now there’s a Bias knob alongside it. Two chaos agents working together. More ways to make the circuit self-destruct musically.
Bass players take note: the whole thing is built with low-end in mind. The overload switch. The cleanup. The way it tracks. This isn’t a guitar pedal that bassists can use. It’s a bass pedal that happens to work for guitar too.
It’s a rebuild from the ground up. Familiar bones. New organs. Same Glue. Better hold.
