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edited Caline CP-11 Puffer Fuzz

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edited Boss FZ-5 Fuzz

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Modern design, retro sounds.

The Boss FZ-5 is a modern pedal built for the modern guitarist, but the sounds you can get from the FZ-5 are pure retro. Looking back at the glorious rock sounds of the '60s and '70s, the FZ-5 recreates it's vintage fuzz through BOSS state-of-the-art COSM technology. Recall the fuzz-filled flavors of classic pedals, such as the Maestro FZ-1A, Fuzz Face and Octavia pedals, and kick 'em into overdrive with the FZ-5's Boost knob. BOSS' proprietary COSM technology allows guitar players to recreate classic fuzz BOOST control for more aggressive tone. The FZ-5 is the perfect weapon for players wanting to beef up their rigs with classic retro fuzz artillery.

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Modern design, retro sounds.

The Boss FZ-5 is a modern pedal built for the modern guitarist, but the sounds you can get from the FZ-5 are pure retro. Looking back at the glorious rock sounds of the '60s and '70s, the FZ-5 recreates it's vintage fuzz through BOSS state-of-the-art COSM technology. Recall the fuzz-filled flavors of classic pedals, such as the Maestro FZ-1A, Fuzz Face and Octavia pedals, and kick 'em into overdrive with the FZ-5's Boost knob. BOSS' proprietary COSM technology allows guitar players to recreate classic fuzz BOOST control for more aggressive tone. The FZ-5 is the perfect weapon for players wanting to beef up their rigs with classic retro fuzz artillery.
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edited Green Carrot Pedals Infatuator Fuzz Pedal

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edited Electro-Harmonix Graphic Fuzz XO

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Total tonal control.

For the true tonal alchemist, the Electro-Harmonix Graphic Fuzz XO is a unique distortion pedal with 6-band EQ, sensitive to the dynamics of your playing. Sliders for Overdrive, Sustain, and Volume further its array of tones. Use the Graphic Fuzz guitar pedal solely as an EQ or switch on the distortion for total sound sculpting.

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Total tonal control.

For the true tonal alchemist, the Electro-Harmonix Graphic Fuzz XO is a unique distortion pedal with 6-band EQ, sensitive to the dynamics of your playing. Sliders for Overdrive, Sustain, and Volume further its array of tones. Use the Graphic Fuzz guitar pedal solely as an EQ or switch on the distortion for total sound sculpting.
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edited Cornish NG-2 Fuzz pedal

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edited Fulltone '69 MKII

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This is how you wish your vintage fuzz pedal sounded!

Ready to deliver fat and harmonic fuzz whenever you need it, the Fulltone '69 MkII also cleans up like a vintage Fender amp when you turn down your guitar's volume control. The Rolling Stones and the Black Crowes have discovered this trick.

If you love the first two Hendrix releases, then you'll love the '69 MkII fuzz with its two germanium transistors, hand-picked and tested for optimum performance. A Contour knob lets you dial in midrange, harmonics, and sustain, while the Input knob takes the "woofiness" out and gives great overdrive/distortion sounds when backed off. An internal "bias" trimmer allows for adjustment of clipping symmetry, harmonics, and tracking.

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True bypass w/LED is standard equipment to preserve tone when the pedal is off!

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This is how you wish your vintage fuzz pedal sounded!

Ready to deliver fat and harmonic fuzz whenever you need it, the Fulltone '69 MkII also cleans up like a vintage Fender amp when you turn down your guitar's volume control. The Rolling Stones and the Black Crowes have discovered this trick.

If you love the first two Hendrix releases, then you'll love the '69 MkII fuzz with its two germanium transistors, hand-picked and tested for optimum performance. A Contour knob lets you dial in midrange, harmonics, and sustain, while the Input knob takes the "woofiness" out and gives great overdrive/distortion sounds when backed off. An internal "bias" trimmer allows for adjustment of clipping symmetry, harmonics, and tracking.

Specifications subject to change at any given moment due to availability and due to whimsy.

True bypass w/LED is standard equipment to preserve tone when the pedal is off!
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edited Red Witch Fuzz God II Pedal

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Fuzz God II by Red Witch is the insane silicon brother of Germanium Fuzz God. It's wilder, it's crazier, it's the loose cannon sonic brother that you wouldn't introduce to your girlfriend, cause you know he'd try his luck with her.

The Fuzz God II guitar pedal allows you to create fuzzyness of epic proportions (think red seas parting, burning bushes, pillars of salt etc). From your classic fuzz tones of the sustaining, soulful, singing kind through to those of utter chaos - encompassing suboctave madness, parasitic sustain and out of control fax machine dial lunacy.

Controls

Volume - This controls the output Volume - convert the masses quietly or with blasting trumpets (err, guitars)

Fuzz - From a gentle break up to a singing beam of fuzz - you decide!

Wrath - All gods have it and the Lord of the Fuzz is no different - click this only to smite the most brazen of unbelievers. When engaged (by depressing the lightning bolt footswitch) you can dial up all manner of destruction; SubOctave thunder, eternally sustained notes, squealing high frequency note corruption and a myriad number of other terrifying tones.

Sputter - Choose from a smooth singing fuzz to a ragged, rough, sputty gated mess and anything in between. This control will crackle when turned - it's changing a dc bias - and that's ok.

Awaken - A super sturdy true bypass switch to engage the Fuzz God effect.

Engage this footswitch to incur the wrath of the Fuzz God - crazed oscillation and octavization effects.

Lightning Toggle switch - Engage this to double your gain.

Ear Toggle switch - Engage this switch to boost treble frequencies.

Internal trim pot - Inside the Fuzz God II effect pedal is a small blue trim pot which enables you to adjust the master bias on the transistors - make it smoother or more sputtery - it's all down to you.

Power

The Fuzz God II effect pedal can be powered from either a nine volt battery or an external nine volt dc adapter (the Boss PSA style is ideal - though anything with 2.1mm barrel plug with a negative centre pin is fine. Unlike Fuzz God, Fuzz God II doesn't need any flim flammery with powering it up - either the battery or the dc supply will enable the unit to crank (including the LED). Sweet.

The Fuzz God comes finished in vintage pearl with Gold text. The LED is a brilliant diamond white. All components are top notch; Switchcraft jacks, alpha pots, through - hole double sided circuit boards with groundplane shielding etc etc. What more could you want?

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Fuzz God II by Red Witch is the insane silicon brother of Germanium Fuzz God. It's wilder, it's crazier, it's the loose cannon sonic brother that you wouldn't introduce to your girlfriend, cause you know he'd try his luck with her.

The Fuzz God II guitar pedal allows you to create fuzzyness of epic proportions (think red seas parting, burning bushes, pillars of salt etc). From your classic fuzz tones of the sustaining, soulful, singing kind through to those of utter chaos - encompassing suboctave madness, parasitic sustain and out of control fax machine dial lunacy.

Controls

Volume - This controls the output Volume - convert the masses quietly or with blasting trumpets (err, guitars)

Fuzz - From a gentle break up to a singing beam of fuzz - you decide!

Wrath - All gods have it and the Lord of the Fuzz is no different - click this only to smite the most brazen of unbelievers. When engaged (by depressing the lightning bolt footswitch) you can dial up all manner of destruction; SubOctave thunder, eternally sustained notes, squealing high frequency note corruption and a myriad number of other terrifying tones.

Sputter - Choose from a smooth singing fuzz to a ragged, rough, sputty gated mess and anything in between. This control will crackle when turned - it's changing a dc bias - and that's ok.

Awaken - A super sturdy true bypass switch to engage the Fuzz God effect.

Engage this footswitch to incur the wrath of the Fuzz God - crazed oscillation and octavization effects.

Lightning Toggle switch - Engage this to double your gain.

Ear Toggle switch - Engage this switch to boost treble frequencies.

Internal trim pot - Inside the Fuzz God II effect pedal is a small blue trim pot which enables you to adjust the master bias on the transistors - make it smoother or more sputtery - it's all down to you.

Power

The Fuzz God II effect pedal can be powered from either a nine volt battery or an external nine volt dc adapter (the Boss PSA style is ideal - though anything with 2.1mm barrel plug with a negative centre pin is fine. Unlike Fuzz God, Fuzz God II doesn't need any flim flammery with powering it up - either the battery or the dc supply will enable the unit to crank (including the LED). Sweet.

The Fuzz God comes finished in vintage pearl with Gold text. The LED is a brilliant diamond white. All components are top notch; Switchcraft jacks, alpha pots, through - hole double sided circuit boards with groundplane shielding etc etc. What more could you want?
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edited Walrus Audio Jupiter

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edited Wampler Velvet Fuzz

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edited JHS Muffuletta

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edited MXR Jimi Hendrix System Fuzz Unit JH-2S

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edited Electro-Harmonix Satisfaction Fuzz

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In-your-face classic fuzz pedal from the masters of all-things fuzz.

What do you think of when we say ElectroHarmonix? FUZZ. Or at least that's what you should think of. EHX makes great and legendary fuzz tones ranging from lo-fi vintage to high-gain modern-metal madness. And the Satisfaction falls into a category all its own.

They re-create the classic fuzz for today's player, only now it has convenient true bypass circuitry, so when you want fuzz you've got it and when you don't, it's not sending hum through your chain. The Satisfaction Fuzz features a simple, straight-forward, two-knob layout with controls for Volume and Attack (fuzz).

True to its fuzzy brethren, this classically-voiced fuzz creates a wide birth of gritty goodness. Its sound that is anything but subtle and goes from an aggressive rasp to full-on fuzzed-out mayhem!

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In-your-face classic fuzz pedal from the masters of all-things fuzz.

What do you think of when we say ElectroHarmonix? FUZZ. Or at least that's what you should think of. EHX makes great and legendary fuzz tones ranging from lo-fi vintage to high-gain modern-metal madness. And the Satisfaction falls into a category all its own.

They re-create the classic fuzz for today's player, only now it has convenient true bypass circuitry, so when you want fuzz you've got it and when you don't, it's not sending hum through your chain. The Satisfaction Fuzz features a simple, straight-forward, two-knob layout with controls for Volume and Attack (fuzz).

True to its fuzzy brethren, this classically-voiced fuzz creates a wide birth of gritty goodness. Its sound that is anything but subtle and goes from an aggressive rasp to full-on fuzzed-out mayhem!
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edited EarthQuaker Devices Hoof Reaper V1

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edited Basic Audio Gnarly

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edited Roger Mayer Rocket Series Axis Fuzz

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edited ZVEX Fuzz Probe

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Explore the sonic unknown with the Vexter Fuzz Probe.

The Vexter Fuzz Probe is a cross between a theremin and a ZVEX Fuzz Factory. There is an antenna (proximity plate) that projects a field of RF energy that is affected by your foot, altering the circuit that generates it and in so doing, controls the Stability (STAB) knob on the back of the pedal. This lets you select your favorite squealy Fuzz Factory setting. You can also mess around with the STAB knob with your foot creating melodies and interference modulations with your guitar.

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Explore the sonic unknown with the Vexter Fuzz Probe.

The Vexter Fuzz Probe is a cross between a theremin and a ZVEX Fuzz Factory. There is an antenna (proximity plate) that projects a field of RF energy that is affected by your foot, altering the circuit that generates it and in so doing, controls the Stability (STAB) knob on the back of the pedal. This lets you select your favorite squealy Fuzz Factory setting. You can also mess around with the STAB knob with your foot creating melodies and interference modulations with your guitar.

Made in the U.S.A.
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edited Fulltone Soul-Bender v2

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Fat, warm, and juicy sounding.

The Fulltone Soul-Bender is based on the legendary Colorsound and Vox Series III ToneBenders made by Sola-Sound/England in the late '60's that was used by Beck and Page on much of their circa 1968-70 recordings.

Equipped with 3 gain-matched germanium transistor for a FAT, searing lead tone, Michael Fuller also made the Tone control response and range more usable and much less shrill sounding... Full clockwise is SMOOTH sounding.

The Soul-Bender cleans up when you back-off on the guitar's volume control. This pedal has tons of tonal character and even harmonics and of course, true bypass w/ LED is included with every one.

Michael Fuller on the Soul Bender:
In the early 1970's, Sola-Sound England produced a very fat, warm, and juicy sounding Distortion/Fuzz called the Tone-Bender Mklli. These were also sold under the Colorsound and Park brand names with slight variations in circuit and sound....my favorite being the Sola-Sound. "3 knob Tone-Benders," as they became to be known, were very different from the more popular Fuzzface pedals in that they had more sustain and a lot of sweet midrange on-tap, which could give a thin Tele or Strat avery sax-like solo tone, especially with the "Tone" control turned full clockwise. The 'Bender tone control cuts treble and increases Bass & Mids as you turn it clockwise, panning between a large and small capacitor, which is the way different from most other pedal's Tone controls which simply cut treble as the knob is turned counter-clockwise. The magic of these "3 knobbers" is that they contain 3 germanium transistors...all of differing gains, and the secret is you have to know the proper gain each transistor needs to be in order to produce the best sound. I know, riot because of some schematic on the web (all wrong BTW) or"build your own" kit, but because I have owned and repaired 40 or more original "3 knobbers," and have almost 20 years experience with this circuit, knowing what makes them sound great and sustain long. The original Fulltone Soul-Bender came out in 1995, it was inspired by this classic 3-knob design, and was produced up until around 2006 when I could no longer parse suitable transistors. Approximately 3107 units were sold during that period. Recently I have re-established a relationship with one of the last remaining germanium transistor-making companies, which has allowed me to re-issue this Fulltone fuzz-classic as the Soul-Bender SB-2.

The SB-2 is in some ways better than the old Soul-Bender in that I am now having the transistors made-to-order just how I want them, and these wonderful skinny-tall TO-1 Germanium transistor (with atop hat brim) that have just the right characteristics, including the requisite low gain and low noise just like the vintage Sola-Sound pedals had. The Soul-Bender improvs on the original 60's design by offering more available volume, a more usable Tone control range, True-Bypass switching with my proprietary "silent switching circuit," better power supply filtering for less noise, and polarity protection to keep the sensitive Germanium transistors from damage....you cannot fry this pedal if you accidentally use the wrong power supply!

Your SB-2 is roughly half the size of the original Soul-Benders (or Soia-Sound) and I left the IN &OUT jacks on the rear ofthe pedal like the original Soul-Bender so it will fit on even the most cramped pedal board.

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Fat, warm, and juicy sounding.

The Fulltone Soul-Bender is based on the legendary Colorsound and Vox Series III ToneBenders made by Sola-Sound/England in the late '60's that was used by Beck and Page on much of their circa 1968-70 recordings.

Equipped with 3 gain-matched germanium transistor for a FAT, searing lead tone, Michael Fuller also made the Tone control response and range more usable and much less shrill sounding... Full clockwise is SMOOTH sounding.

The Soul-Bender cleans up when you back-off on the guitar's volume control. This pedal has tons of tonal character and even harmonics and of course, true bypass w/ LED is included with every one.

Michael Fuller on the Soul Bender:
In the early 1970's, Sola-Sound England produced a very fat, warm, and juicy sounding Distortion/Fuzz called the Tone-Bender Mklli. These were also sold under the Colorsound and Park brand names with slight variations in circuit and sound....my favorite being the Sola-Sound. "3 knob Tone-Benders," as they became to be known, were very different from the more popular Fuzzface pedals in that they had more sustain and a lot of sweet midrange on-tap, which could give a thin Tele or Strat avery sax-like solo tone, especially with the "Tone" control turned full clockwise. The 'Bender tone control cuts treble and increases Bass & Mids as you turn it clockwise, panning between a large and small capacitor, which is the way different from most other pedal's Tone controls which simply cut treble as the knob is turned counter-clockwise. The magic of these "3 knobbers" is that they contain 3 germanium transistors...all of differing gains, and the secret is you have to know the proper gain each transistor needs to be in order to produce the best sound. I know, riot because of some schematic on the web (all wrong BTW) or"build your own" kit, but because I have owned and repaired 40 or more original "3 knobbers," and have almost 20 years experience with this circuit, knowing what makes them sound great and sustain long. The original Fulltone Soul-Bender came out in 1995, it was inspired by this classic 3-knob design, and was produced up until around 2006 when I could no longer parse suitable transistors. Approximately 3107 units were sold during that period. Recently I have re-established a relationship with one of the last remaining germanium transistor-making companies, which has allowed me to re-issue this Fulltone fuzz-classic as the Soul-Bender SB-2.

The SB-2 is in some ways better than the old Soul-Bender in that I am now having the transistors made-to-order just how I want them, and these wonderful skinny-tall TO-1 Germanium transistor (with atop hat brim) that have just the right characteristics, including the requisite low gain and low noise just like the vintage Sola-Sound pedals had. The Soul-Bender improvs on the original 60's design by offering more available volume, a more usable Tone control range, True-Bypass switching with my proprietary "silent switching circuit," better power supply filtering for less noise, and polarity protection to keep the sensitive Germanium transistors from damage....you cannot fry this pedal if you accidentally use the wrong power supply!

Your SB-2 is roughly half the size of the original Soul-Benders (or Soia-Sound) and I left the IN &OUT jacks on the rear ofthe pedal like the original Soul-Bender so it will fit on even the most cramped pedal board.
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