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• 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

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Below, the latest news about fuzz pedals

Mask Audio Electronic Part Garden Dual Fuzz

In this era dense with pedal collaborations, videographers have joined celebrity guitarists in working with builders on new, exciting stompboxes. The first example of this kind was, of course, the Chase Bliss Audio / Knobs collaboration on the recently finalized Blooper. This week we got news of a second item…Click on the title for more

Mask Audio Electronic Part Garden Dual Fuzz

All Pedal Love Machine Octave Fuzz

The All Pedal Love Machine is a modern take on the vintage Maestro Fuzz-Tone FZ-1, which was the first fuzz pedal ever which famously provided the tone for the unforgettable guitar riff in Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones. The Love Machine is not a clone but an evolution of that…Click on the title for more

All Pedal Love Machine Octave Fuzz

New Pedal: Dirty Sock Effects Transistoriser

Inspired by pioneering silicon fuzz designs of the late '60s/early '70s like the Shin Ei FY-2 and the Mosrite Fuzzrite, the Dirty Sock Effects Transistoriser hails from Sidney, Australia. Although its sound is vintage, the components in the circuit were updated to modern standards, with the goal of making this…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Dirty Sock Effects Transistoriser

Alameda Angry Hornet

The Alameda Angry Hornet is one of two pedals released by a (we assume) Californian company better known for their guitars. It's a circuit that blends a Maestro Fuzz-Tone FZ-1b with a Vox Treble Booster. Although the two circuits can't be separated (there is only one footswitch that turns them…Click on the title for more

Alameda Angry Hornet

New Pedal: Oneder Onederwall Dual Distortion/Fuzz

Although it features a (truly beautiful) flowery image on its case, the Oneder Onederwall is not exactly a device for the delicate guitarist: it's a dual channel, routable pedal merging a new, Russian-flavored Muff circuit with the distortion circuit of the company's Oneder Drive MkII. While Channel 1 (the fuzz)…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Oneder Onederwall Dual Distortion/Fuzz

Collision Devices Black Hole Symmetry

It's always great to discover new devices thanks to Knobs' state-of-the-art videos. The Torontonian videographer was among the first ones to coverof the Black Hole Symmetry by French builder Collision Devices. This is a hand-built Delay with Modulation/Reverb with Pitch Shifting/Fuzz combo that is bound to intrigue those with shoegazing…Click on the title for more

Collision Devices Black Hole Symmetry

Beetronics OctaHive V2 Octave-Up Fuzz

The Beetronics FX OctaHive V2 is the improved version of a super high gain fuzz with chaotic leanings and a switchable octave-up manufactured by a (quite literally) buzzworthy company based in Los Angeles (via Brasil). Inspired by the early octave-up pedals of the '70s, and in particular the Tycobrahe Octavia, this…Click on the title for more

Beetronics OctaHive V2 Octave-Up Fuzz

New Pedal: Atomic Tone Saturation Triptych

The Atomic Tone Saturation Triptych is the debut, hand-made circuit by an emerging California-based builder, founded this very year 2023 AD. It can be described as a hybrid dirt box. As hinted by the name (for the unaware, the word "triptych" means "trio"), this pedal offers three modes via the…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Atomic Tone Saturation Triptych

R2R Electric MKI Pro Fuzz

Sporting not one but three Germanium transistors (for the circuit geeks, the OC75, 2G308, 2G378B) the R2R Electric MKI Pro Fuzz is a compact version of the company's MKI Tone Bender clone, the MKI Fuzz, with a few extra features, made entirely using vintage and NOS parts hand-wired point to…Click on the title for more

R2R Electric MKI Pro Fuzz

New Pedal: Loe Sounds Germanium Blow Fuzz

As it's abundantly clear from its name, the Loe Sounds Germanium Blow is a fuzz based on a Germanium diode. Built by hand by Aisha Loe, one of the few female pedal designers out there (no, seriously, we can't count more than 4 in total), the Blow delivers thick and…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Loe Sounds Germanium Blow Fuzz

Tark Audio Squidink Multi-Octave PLL Fuzz

The Tark Audio Squidink is a multi-octave fuzz pedal made by a new company based in Portland, OR determined to create "products designed to help illuminate unexplored areas of sonic cartography." Sounds intriguing... The fuzz is a classic Fuzz Face-style circuit using low-gain Silicon PNP transistors. The multi-octave section of the…Click on the title for more

Tark Audio Squidink Multi-Octave PLL Fuzz

Bixonic Axentrix A1 Distortion/Fuzz

Released as part of the relaunch of the Japanese Bixonic brand (creator of the cult pedal Expandora), the Axentrix A1 is a digital gain pedal with a series of innovative features that can deliver the entire spectrum of saturated tones, including fuzz. The fully analog Expandora, released in the mid…Click on the title for more

Bixonic Axentrix A1 Distortion/Fuzz