Sometimes it just seems impossible to get just the right fuzz sound, and the harder you look the harder it gets to achieve it. As you keep looking the more peachy you become about it and suddenly you come to decide anything will fit your non realistic expectations and kinda led you into a big depression. That’s how I got to Vntage Tone (www.facebook.com/vntagetone), a Mexican custom pedal and pedalboard builder who seems to hit right in the nail, well at least for me.
I love vintage stuff and love to go “hunting them” at local flea markets here at my hometown near Mexico City, that’s how I came across this weird-looking-kinda-cold-war-Russian-aircraft box which I love almost instantly and in which I decided to build my own fuzzy wet dream.
This fuzz it’s kinda a sovtek muff-ish (I love big muffs in general, but I never was really satisfied with them), so the guys at Vintage Tone and I got together and designed this monster fuzz with tons of creamy layers of nonsenseness, a huge amount of headroom, some pairs of demon horns and a little curl of Kevin Shields’ hair. It has the most woolly, full, rich, and big fuzz sounds I ever heard with just the right evil level to tremble your body but just the right amount of velvet to touch your soul.
This pedal has Speed (volume) control, Circuit Breaker (gain) control, Full-Pulse (tone) control, Direction (mids selector) switch and a On-Off switch. We tried to maintain the original Throttlepack aesthetics so we fit the controls just as the original controls did. I really love the outcome, visual and sound. If you want to hear more about it you should check out my bands Spotify (Tsmoto San Mi) or Bandcamp (https://tsmoto.bandcamp.com) since I’ve been recording almost every guitar with this little buddy.
Fuzzy kisses, Eric del Rey.
Users: Eric del Rey (Tsmoto San Mi)
