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The Sola Sound Bum Fuzz Unit V2, AKA the 'Blue Moon'. Bum, moon, mooning... ya get it? The evil sister to the Collins Bum Fuzz. Bad attitude, aggressive tendencies, that kinda annoying loud talky thing bad drunkards do. Old timey wisdom under the hood in the form of the occult level ZETEX (ZTX) 109

Less talky more noises. Not only does this sound clip further prove that Philip is definitely a wizard but that he also possesses telekinetic and psychic abilities. 
Mind wandering, thinking - it would be kinda cool if the sound clip for the blue Bum was like an 'eavy 'eavy type of thing, hmmm, maybe I'll ask Phillip if he could do something leaning in that direction...
About an hour later...mind blown.

I'd say the above pretty much outlines the intent here. Bigger, badder, bolder. A searing blanket of fuzz with enough low end to crush bones. Bass fuzz? Why yes. Anything with lower tunings this will most certainly be friends with. That said, this isn't freakish mutant of some kinda, it is still a 70's fuzz circuit. In actuality the main reference pedal was a Eurotec Black Box Fuzz Module.

SUPER RARE FIND - Only 30 in existence. 

The D*A*M Fuzz Sound, nicknamed the 'Blue #22'....there are a few components on the board with the value of either 22 or 220, the fine folks at D.A.M. thought it was kinda like Johnny 5!?!...yea, it was funny at the time, you had to be there I guess.

Extended.

Extended is the word. David Main took the MKIV circuit and stretched it out, dense and yet bright, heavy but crisp. The EQ throw is much more open on both registers, it's a little more full range than midrange with enough amplitude to upset your neighbors neighbor.

There are elements taken from both the Grease Box and D*A*M Fuzz Sounds so this is a much more modern sounding fuzz device in many ways, but still, its an archaic circuit so the 70's flavors are very much present. It's still dirty burgers, yellow aviators and too fat an ass stuffed in blue denim. 

Super Charged.

High stability high quality components on our stock MKIV circuit board powered and lovingly smushed into your ears by a trio of NKTOC84N's, the same device as used in our turquoise and grey Tone Bender MKIV's.

Tune to taste?

That funky looking blue structure is a thumb wheel trim pot. This controls your fuzz and sustain levels. The 'factory setting' if you will, is at approx. 90%. There is a little more juice in the can if required, but under test this amount was more than ample for both single coils, humbuckers and even bass instruments. But 'tis there if you need it, fiddlers gonna fiddle.

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Based upon Steve's vintage two knob Park Fuzz Sound the Pigdog rendition is as the man says himself, warts n all.

Delivering a choppy fast attack with a guttural throaty bark, the stylized tones contained within the Pigdog Fuzz Sound are truly antique to the core.

Displaying an almost MKI feel in note break-up and note punctuation with pleasingly rounded highs and more than ample punch in the lower mid range. This Pigdog creation displays great tuning and biasing skills with a spookily low signal to noise ratio.

One thing to note. Tonally vintage - yes. Vintage output level - hell no! This thing can get bulldozer loud and then some.

As with both the Pigdog and D*A*M Fuzz Sound; and to be true to the vintage counter parts, the Attack control is in fact the tone filter. Yay! Go Colorsound!! The kings of mislabeled control dials.

What this means dear user is that your Pigdog Fuzz Sound is wired for maximum sustain and fuzz delivery, there is no 'set to stun' mode here. Kill or be killed. 

Collars and cuffs.

The 60's feel is felt from the inside out. A finely crafted reverse style circuit board is featured populated by juicy NOS parts with the driving force delivered by a trio of black glass OC75 germanium devices.

There is a grand total of 53 Pigdog Fuzz Sounds in total.

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So what's going on here exactly ?

Well , when we heard David Raingers Fuzz pedals we kind of thought they were so crazy and intense that they started where ours stopped !

So we stocked and sold his pedals and then . .

Well it seemed an obvious move to embark on a project together and in true Freakenstein style this is just a little bit different to anything else out there

Its our top selling TC Tone Bender morphed with the signature Freakenstein Fuzz

In fact it looks like out poor pedal has been invaded by some strange alien monster

Having said that they have learned to inhabit the same space and are quite happy together - in fact they compliment each other !

THE FREAKIEST TONE BENDER YET
So what's going on here exactly ?

Well , when we heard David Raingers Fuzz pedals we kind of thought they were so crazy and intense that they started where ours stopped !

So we stocked and sold his pedals and then . .

Well it seemed an obvious move to embark on a project together and in true Freakenstein style this is just a little bit different to anything else out there

Its our top selling TC Tone Bender morphed with the signature Freakenstein Fuzz

In fact it looks like out poor pedal has been invaded by some strange alien monster

Having said that they have learned to inhabit the same space and are quite happy together - in fact they compliment each other !

 . . . . i just heard them  . .. that's a nice jumper you have there  . . . . goodness me what a cool hat ! etc etc etc

A few years ago we decided to build the best Sola Sound MKII Tone Bender in the World - we used Mullard OC82D Transistors and called it the MKII Supreme - it soon became known as THE GREEN BASTARD !

So here is its logical offspring - it's been a while but we are using those green jacket OC82Ds again - possibly the best transistors known to man  = house in very elegent green and gold - still in those cases pressed by the very same tools that spouted forth the early Colorsound pedals in the 70s 

The coolest looking MKIV thus far!?!? ...yeah, yeah, yeah I said that when we did the yellow ones....and then again when we did the orange ones. Cool new project 5.6!! The Son of the Green Bastard. It had to be called that really didn't it? British Racing green paint with the mighty OC82D green jackets in the belly. High class attitude but with skeletons in the closest. 

Please note: It has the appearance of the opening scenes of the Empire Strikes Back outside today so indoor seedy looking pictures it is. Just pretend like it's 1973 and all will be okay.

The first MKIV's of 2018 and a slightly different approach. Carbon composition resistors and polypropylene capacitors replace the metal film resistors and the polyester capacitors of previous incarnations giving the SOTGB a slightly more vintagey appearance that goes hand-in-hand with the circuit set-up. 

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A few years a go , a prototype hybrid Tone Bender turned up from our genius in residence Jake Rothman. He had taken our regular TC Tone Bender and somehow made it work with a combination of silicon transistors and some germanium NKT 214s and a germanium diode . The result was jaw-dropping - a tone bender with the sizzle and sparkle of our much loved TC but with the throaty transparency of a nasty garagey germanium unit.

Since that day the yellow Tone Bender has turned up in various guises but the one we loved the most housed a black sausage shaped OC75 - this was the one Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine bought , then returned the next day for four more , saying , this does something no other fuzz pedal does !!!

IT MAKES THINGS LOUDER !
Much louder !!

So the story goes that we'd made the power boost pedal - the one people refer to as the 'Gilmour and Beck' one, and everyone loved it!

Well nearly everyone

When it went to a trade show in Dallas, the Americans decided it was just about the best sounding thing ever but it looked a bit dated in its flower power orange and funky yellow imagery

So what happened?

we took the circuit , this is about 1972 , and rehouse it in a mean looking black case and called it  . . .

Well legend has it that Marc Bolan suggested the name. .OVERDRIVER

So here it is again in all its glory - the totally superb Colorsound Overdriver as used by Jeff Beck and Marc Bolan

This batch has been made by the incomparable Stu Castledine who builds our 18v Power Boost (amongst other things )

It is frankly  . . . jaw dropping !

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WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE . . . .
Analogue genius has put together a bunch of our amazing Power Boost Pedals

yes the Gilmour one - yes the Jeff Beck one

BUT

they're in the Vox style Wedgie case - a manufacturing mistake on our part ( we were going to make Tone Benders n them )

This is the 9v version but interestingly , it will handle 18v if you want a bit more sparkle and headroom

So here it is - our current version of our classic Fuzz . The TC evolved from the 1975 Jumbo Tone Bender and although we're not using NOS parts it's still built lovingly by hand by top fuzz nerd Jake Rothman and sounds just like a vintage version - see Clint in the video below.

Our current batch have power supply inputs and LED indicator lights

If you want to hear it with your own ears the check out any mid 70s Thin Lizzy track or check out The Isleys, Bernard Butler or Primal Scream.

The origin. An expertly crafted and meticulous replication of Stuart's own vintage Tone Bender MKI, which is likely one of the, if not thee, oldest known example of a metal bodied MKI in existence. An all together different beast to our other three MKIs. If you desire the primitive well this is it. Dark, ripping, raspy, very stylistically 1960's, the FZ-1A origins are very much in play here. Heavy bottomed and well rounded with a choppy almost percussive attack. Sincerely wonderful and inspiring tones to be had at lower gain settings, dense and chewy at maximum fuzz settings. A much dryer and less saturated tone than the aforementioned devices. Clean amp at volume, big reverb, fuzz tone heaven. Mr. Castledine seriously knows his shit. The skillful approach in all areas of this pedals creation affirms this tenfold.

The assembly here is 100% old school. Old timey all the way. For all intents and purposes this is a vintage Tone Bender visually and sonically. Construction differs in that Veroboard is used over the paper based phenoilc types (Paxolin, Tufnol, etc) and there is no battery door access. Stuart's original unit is made in this way so the replication follows suit. Three black glass OC75's deliver the goods along with Arcol carbon composition resistors and Vishay and Sprague capacitors.

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