Continuing our week of powerful distortion effects, we’ve got another monster fuzz pedal for you to check out today. The American Geek is a high-gain fuzz machine from Zander Circuitry, one with a spread out tone section, a ton of drive and a super-charged footswitchable option to send your sound into the metal stratosphere.
Level and Gain set the output volume and amount of crunch the American Geek produces, as they should, but the tone section is where it’s at here. By way of FOUR different filters, you can twist, bend, wrench and tweak your sound to super-exact specifications. Get ready for a lengthy session anytime you sit down to mess with this guy, as the tonal options with these filters are just about endless, and require some real attention to detail (we suggest making some control layout sheets to write down different settings).
There’s a six-way diode control switch present here as well, for more tonal experimentation. This rotary knob lets you choose between various different clipping options in the second gain stage,: Germanium, Silicon (the standard ‘M’ fuzz sound), Red LEDs, MOSFET, Transistor & None. As if the four filters didn’t offer enough in the sonic investigation department, each of these modes gives you additional choices with which to produce a multitude of driving, biting distortion and fuzz.
The top-mounted jacks make this blue beast able to squeeze onto any pedalboard, although with the sounds you can get out of it, it just might eliminate a pedal or two from your current setup. An instant plug in and play pedal if you want it, and a tweaker’s dream if you need it, the American Geek from Zander Circuitry is an impressive addition to the world of heavy effects. Cheers to those guys, be sure to check out their website for more potent pedal selections – you can hear this bad boy in action in our demo below as well…
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