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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

Whimsy Machines The Great Fantabulizing Whatsitdo Octave Fuzz

Whimsy Machines is a new, Virginia-based boutique builder that has been spoiling us with some very imaginative devices. Their new creation makes it clear right from its moniker that the company's stomping ground hasn't changed: enter the Great Fantabulizing Whatsitdo, a "Recursive Octave Fuzz." So, you may ask yourself, "whatsitdo?"…Click on the title for more

Whimsy Machines The Great Fantabulizing Whatsitdo Octave Fuzz

Best Burns Buzzaround Fuzz Clones & Evolutions in 2023

Fuzz comes in many flavors, and this article covers just one of them. You can find a list of our articles about the various fuzz circuits and their modern reinterpretations in our Fuzz Category Page. [lwptoc depth="4" hierarchical="0" numeration="none" title="TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to jump)" toggle="0" titleFontSize="125%" titleFontWeight="semibold" itemsFontSize="110%"…Click on the title for more

Best Burns Buzzaround Fuzz Clones & Evolutions in 2023

Soundslice FX X-Ray Box (Buzzaround Fuzz)

The Soundslice FX X-Ray Box is a fuzz handmade in Victoriaville, Canada and inspired by the Burns Buzzaround, a pedal from the '60s not too dissimilar from the Tone Bender (but heavier-sounding), and that has become a collector's item. This variation of that classic is not an authentic clone but…Click on the title for more

Soundslice FX X-Ray Box (Buzzaround Fuzz)

Simon the Magpie Stutterphone V2: the Silence Looper

Those who are not familiar with Swedish mad scientist Simon the Magpie miss out on some bizarrely genius stompboxes, and synths. The Stutterphone V2 is the new version of a stunning pedal that embeds a vintage rotary phone dial. Even better, it promises to loop... silence! This new version does…Click on the title for more

Simon the Magpie Stutterphone V2: the Silence Looper

Rainger FX Break Box

Guitar pedals can do a lot more than what we are used to, and London-based David Rainger has always shown an interest in expanding the stompboxes' functionality (and shape) in new and intriguind directions. Enter the Rainger FX Break Box, an asymmetrical fuzz pedal that does a bunch of crazy…Click on the title for more

Rainger FX Break Box

Bleak District Electric Antistatic Fuzz + Micro-Looper

The Bleak District Electric Antistatic is a quirky compact pedal hailing from the UK that blends a fuzz circuit with a micro-looper more apt at crating glitchy effects than actual loops. The design is simple but fun. The fuzz, of the gated kind in all its spittiness, is engaged via…Click on the title for more

Bleak District Electric Antistatic Fuzz + Micro-Looper

ThorpyFX The BoneYard Fuzz

In the last few years, Adrian Thorpy has developed a rock-solid reputation for his pedal design, and the new ThorpyFX The BoneYard Fuzz is bound to find many estimators among the guitarists who have an appreciation for Tone Bender-inspired pedals. This pedal is the result of many years spent playing,…Click on the title for more

ThorpyFX The BoneYard Fuzz

Fairfield Circuitry ~900 Fuzz

Canadian builder Fairfield Circuitry released a new 4-knob fuzz pedal that replaces in their roster the now discontinued Four Eyes Fuzz. Based, like its predecessor, on two JFET gain stages, this is an aggressive fuzz with a ton of gain and able to deliver a wide range of sounds through…Click on the title for more

Fairfield Circuitry ~900 Fuzz

Pedal Pawn Octone

Made by hand in Cambridgeshire, UK, the Pedal Pawn Octone is the latest offering by a small builder that's been making waves (with an assist by Andertons Music) for its reinterpretation of classic effect circuits. It's a variant of the vintage 1970's Octavia Fuzz. The result of hundreds of years…Click on the title for more

Pedal Pawn Octone

Dreadbox Disorder Fuzz

The Dreadbox Disorder isn't a new pedal (the video of the original version dates back to 2014), but the Greek company, after focusing for almost a decade on its line of synths, in the early '20s has switched its attention back to stompboxes, triggering new attention to their old designs.…Click on the title for more

Dreadbox Disorder Fuzz

New Pedal: Ghoib Elektronik Clang Invasion

As you may have guessed from the color scheme and control layout, the Ghoib Elektronik Clang Invasion is a replica of the Harmonic Percolator, the clangy and noisy fuzz pedal brought to fame by Steven Albini, a producer specializing in noisy indie-rock. The enclosure here is much smaller than the…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Ghoib Elektronik Clang Invasion

Jam Pedals Eureka Fuzz

The Eureka is an original Muff-style fuzz circuit by Greek manufacturer Jam Pedals based on a silicon transistor design. The classic three knobs for Level, Gain and Tone and expanded by a three-way toggle switch that offers different bass settings, a useful feature for switching between single-coil and humbucker guitars or…Click on the title for more

Jam Pedals Eureka Fuzz