Fuzzdog Pedals

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Here are pedal kits that are/were offered by Fuzzdog in the UK. We take no position on the kits and PCBs that Fuzz Dog makes available. We have purchased a number of PCBs from Fuzzdog in order to ensure that we have certain vintage pedals available for rental. We do not believe in undercutting existing pedal manufacturers who offer original pedals at reasonable prices. Fuzzdog offers many such pedals in order for people to get a "more affordable" version of a pedal that's currently being offered for sale. Barring a few special exceptions, we will not rent such pedals despite the fact we've accidentally purchased a couple of such pedals or PCBs.

If you want a pedal that makes a certain sound and that pedal is still in production, we advise you purchase that pedal. While it may seem cheaper to build the pedal yourself, this does not include the price of the soldering station, or the other incidentals that you have to get in order to do the actual work to assemble a pedal. Now, there are certain pedal manufacturers that charge exorbitant prices for pedals that have very little, in terms of components, to them: their cost is maybe $25.00 of parts. It is often also the case that such pedals come from electronic schematics that were worked out long ago. We have little sympathy for such pedal manufacturers when they make such pedals and then charge exhorbitant prices. We believe it to be perfectly ethical to clone and make available such pedals when those certain manufacturers are demonstrably preying on customers' lack of information.

Despite our moralizing and finger-wagging, if there are vintage pedals that you're looking to get and they're either not available or perhaps they're only available because they are rare and expensive, and no longer being made, we think it's entirely reasonable to not want to spend stupid amounts of money for something that only might, from an audio standpoint, give you the sound that you want. Vintage pedals are dying as the components burn up, and as estates have stuff that get pitched in the trash. In addition to vintage pedals, there are other cases wherein a pedal was made with a very small distribution (like the Kendrick Amplifiers "Buffalo Pfuz"). There are other cases where a certain model of pedal was made in a small batch for a particular artist (like the "Brian May Treble Boost"). In these cases as well, we endorse the recreation of pedals and/or effects that have been effectively abandoned by the original manufacturer.

In any event, there are a number of pedals that are interesting that are no longer available from the manufacturer that originally developed them. In these cases, you would be well advised to either rent our version, or, if you wanted to make a bigger investment, to build your own.

And no, despite doing this for ourselves for what we consider to be legitimate business reasons, we are not a "for-hire" pedal assembly shop.

Credits

Thanks to Aelfric (Feb-2015) for original updates and posting to the original Fretboard forum list!
Thanks to Aelfric (06-Oct-2018) for updates to the list!
(7 of Dwarves Auto Wah, Dirty Kazoo, Emperor Dual OD, Green Stinger, Juicy Blue Dynamic Bass OD, Moon Unit, Spectre Verb)
Thanks to Unkle Phil (04-Mar-2019) for updates to the list!
(Angry Chuck, Angry Andy, Dirt Dealer Fuzz, Mad Mule, Cone Cranker, Electrica +, Sandbank Drive, Eagle Claw OD, Eight Two Zero, Libido Boost, Ocean Engine Chorus, Ramesses Fuzz)
Thanks to Aelfric (24-Mar-2018) for additional updates to the list!

Newly identified: Amber Chuck V4, Beast Overdrive, BeeBaa Fuzz, Cream Buff, Deep Vibes Optical Vibe Machine, Dr. Boogie Distortion, English Channel, FuzzPup Maestro MFZ-1 Fuzz, FuzzPup Rodent, Goliath Space Fuzz, Green Citrus, Jubbly Drive, Just The Meat, Klon Buffer, Logical Bass Pre-Amp, Maestro MFZ-1 Fuzz, Micro V Filter, Muffled Gun Fuzz, Octave Master, Octavia, Octo Factory, Pep Box, Range Master Plus Si/Ge, RunOffGroove Ginger, Simple Compressor, Sonic Tight'un Distortion, Spooky Mids Filter, String Stinger Drive, Supreme Being Fuzz, Two Dozen Silvertones!, WestWorld Drive, White Cliffs Drive, Yellow Purl Drive, Updates: 19 Bells Fuzz (Pink Pig), 19 Bells Fuzz (The Bell), Analog-like Echo, Bazz Fuzz, Box of Tone 50, BuzzAround, Cherub Chorus, Ex-Con Overdrive, FuzzPup Crusher, FuzzPup Second Channel, Graphic Fuzz, Gristleizer, HaraKiri Overlord, HellGazer, Little Screamer, Little Screamer (Forever), Little Screamer (Forever Explosion), Lunar Shot, Maximus Distortium, Moon Unit, Morning Wood Drive, One Knob Fuzz, One Knob Fuzz (Thug), Pitbull, Super Skwisher, Supreaux Bolt, The Verb, Thug DeLuxe, Thug Fuzz, Tone Ripper, Toxic Minx (Dist+), Toxic Minx (OD250), Treble Deluxe, Vintage Pow, Vintage Pow (with charge pump)

FuzzDog's Pedal Kits List

Numerical

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
19 Bells Multi-Muff Fuzz ("multi-muff" allows different builds, see below)
19 Bells Fuzz (Pink Pig) Skreddy P19 Fuzz
19 Bells Fuzz (The Bell) Mojo Hand Iron Bell
1978 IC Big Muff Pi V4-5 EHX opamp Big Muff
4-Track Fuzz MidFi Electronics Demo Tape Fuzz
7 of Dwarves Auto Wah Mad Professor Snow White

A

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Acti-Boost: Type A & Type R Xotic Effects AC Booster/RC Booster
Amber Chuck V4 JHS Angry Charlie
Ampeg Scrambler Ampeg Scrambler
Ampegulator: Ampeg Amp Shaper Catalinbread SFT(?)
Analog-like Echo Wampler Analog Echo
Angry Andy JHS AT
Angry Chuck JHS Angry Charlie
Animatron Human Gear Animato
AstroTone Fuzz: Sam Ash Fuzzz Box Sam Ash Fuzzz Box
AtmosFear Fuzz
Axis Fuzz Roger Mayer Axis Fuzz

B

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Bad Mofo Bass Overdrive Preamp
Ball Breaker Marshall Blues Breaker
Bass Pig - Hog's Foot bass boost EHX Hog’s Foot
Bazz Fuzz Christian (@ homewrecker.com) Bazz Fuss
Beast Overdrive J Rockett Animal
BeeBaa Fuzz Roland Bee Baa Fuzz
Bee Juice Overdrive Mad Professor Sweet Honey
Big Beefy Preamp - Boost and OD Xotic Effects BB Preamp
Big Fat Balls - Dynamic Bass Envelope Filter EHX Bass Balls
Big Muff Pi EHX Big Muff
Big Muff Pi - Bass Blender
Bionic Guzz Fun Death by Audio Supersonic Fuzz Gun
Blaster - Alembic Stratoblaster Alembic Stratoblaster
Blend-a-Fenda Fender Blender
Blue Fool - MXR Blue Box+ MXR Blue Box
Boner Boost Z.Vex Super Hard-On
Box of Krunch MI Audio Crunch Box
Box of Tone 50 Lovepedal COT50
Brass Blender
BrassMaster Maestro Brass Master
Brian May Treble Boost Brian May Treble Booster
BSIAB2 - Brown Sound in a Box BSIAB2
BuzzAround Baldwin-Burns Buzzaround

C

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Cab Sim ROG Condor Runoff Groove Condor Cabinet Simulator
Candyman Overdrive Paul Cochrane Timmy
Cherub Chorus Frequency Central Little Angel Chorus
Chilly Biscuit Distortion Crowther Hot Cake
Clay Jones Overdrive Landgraff Dynamic OD / Clay Jones OD
Clock of Tone Lovepedal Church of Tone 50
Cone Cranker Earthquakerdevices Speaker Cranker
Cone Ripper - Filthy OD/Fuzz Devi Ever Torn's Peaker
Country Crunch Drive Wampler Paisley Drive
Cream Buff Pete Cornish Line Driver
Creme Fluff Fuzz Frantone Cream Puff Fuzz
Crusher: Analog Bit Crusher Bit Crusher by Colin Raffel
CSound Tremolo Colorsound Tremolo

D

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Deep Vibes Optical Vibe Machine EarthQuaker Devices The Depths
Dirt Dealer Fuzz Earthquakerdevices Dirt Transmitter
Dirt Dessert: Harmonic Messulator Crowther Audio Prunes & Custard
Dirty Kazoo Overdrive Lovepedal Kalamazoo
Disorder Drive Fulltone OCD
Double-Down Boner Boost / OD ZVEX Super Duper 2n1 Dual Boost
Dr. Boogie Distortion Electrictabs Dr. Boogie
Dumb Lloyd Shin’s Dumbloid

E

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
EA Tremolo Electronics Australia Tremolo
Eagle Claw OD Earthquaker Devices Talons
Echo Blue Delay Mad Professor Deep Blue
Eight Two Zero Maxon OD-820
Electrica + Electra Distortion
EMpathy Drive Emerson Em Drive
Emperor Dual OD Analogman King of Tone
English Channel Runoff Groove English Channel
Engorged Gherkin Fuzz Way Huge Swollen Pickle
Enlightened Drive Hermida Zendrive
EPic Boost Xotic Effects EP Booster
Ex-Con Overdrive Friedman BE-OD
Expandotron-ZZ Bixonic Expandora

F

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
FA-1 FET Preamp DOD Fet Preamp
Fat-Ass Blooper - Buffered Bass Looper
Fat Furry Freak - Bass Fuzz Monster ZVex Woolly Mammoth
Figaro Drive - Brian May In-A-Box Catalinbread Galileo
Filth Fack! - Crazy Germanium Fuzz Z.Vex Fuzz Factory
Finger of Fuzz Penny Pedals Fingerprint
Forever (Discontinued) Lovepedal Eternity
Forever Explosion (Discontinued) Lovepedal Eternity Burst
FoxxTave - Foxx Tone Machine Fuzz Foxx Tone Machine / Fulltone Ultimate Octave
Fuzz Face Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face
Fuzz Face - Mini Fuzz Face (mini)
Fuzzy Muff EHx Muff Fuzz

G

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Gimp FX Ultr-Fk Fuzz Mountain King Megalith
The Gimp - Filthy Fack With Added OOMPH
Gloomy Drive Univox Uni-Drive
Goliath Space Fuzz Spaceman Titan II
Graphic Fuzz Earth Sound Research Graphic Fuzz
Greasy Tool - Crossover Distortion Z.Vex Machine
Green Citrus Branimir Bozak (DIYStompBoxes) Green Citrus
Green Stinger - Octave UP! Dan Armstrong Green Ringer
Gristleizer Roy Gwinn/Chris Carter's "Gristleizer"
The Guv Marshall Guv’nor

H

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
HaraKiri Overlord Seppuku Fuzz Overloader
Harmonic Energiser Systech Harmonic Energizer
Harmonic Percolator Interfax HP-1 Harmonic Percolator
HellGazer Devi Ever Shoe Gazer
HF Modulator Jen HF Modulator
Hot Snake Treble Boost Catalinbread Naga Viper
Hype Fuzz / Destructor Drive

I

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Impossibility Drive

J

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Jordan Bosstone Jordan Bosstone
Joy Drive Wampler Ecstacy
Jubbly Drive Lovepedal Jubilee
Juicy Blue Dynamic Bass OD Mad Professor Blueberry Bass Overdrive
Just The Meat Lovepedal JTM

K

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Karlito Loves Fuzz
Klon Buffer Buffer from Klon Centaur
Klone - Boutique Transparent OD Klon Centaur

L

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Lester Fuzz Based on Ramesses Fuzz
Libido Boost Durham Sex Drive
L'il Louie - Fender Tweed tone box Lovepedal Les Lius
Little Screamer AMZ Son of Screamer
Little Screamer (Forever) Lovepedal Eternity
Little Screamer (Forever Explosion) Lovepedal Eternity Burst
Llamatron - Red Llama Fuzz Way Huge Red Llama
Logical Bass Pre-Amp Xotic Tri-Logic Bass Preamp
Lovely Squeezer Compressor Rothwell Love Squeezer Compressor
LPB Boost / Treble Boost / Shouting Bird EHX LPB2 / EHX Screaming Bird
Lunar Shot CultureJam Shoot the Moon (Tremulus Lune variant)

M

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Mad Mule - Neil Young's Weld and Rust In A Box Durham Crazy Horse
Maestro MFZ-1 Fuzz Maestro MFZ-1 Fuzz
Magic Vibes Tremelo Magnatone Amp Tremolo
Maximus Distortium Krank Distortus Maximus
MegaHIWatt - Vintage HIWATT Amp Tone Catalinbread WIIO / RAH
MicroAmp MXR Microamp
Micro V Filter Musitronics Mu-Tron Micro V
Moon Unit Skreddy Lunar Module
Moo-Tron Auto Filter Musitronics Mutron III
Morning Wood Drive JHS Morning Glory
Mosrite Fuzz Rite Mosrite Fuzzrite
Mucky Hush Overdrive Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret
Muff Gun Fuzz
Muffled Gun Fuzz Blackout Effectors Musket
Mutantes Fuzz “Os Mutantes” Regulus VIII

O

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Ocean Engine Chorus Earthquaker Devices Sea Machine
Octave Master MXR Blue Box (variant)
Octavia Roger Mayer Octavia
Octo Factory 8 knob variant on Z.Vex Fuzz Factory
Orange Squeezer Compressor Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer
Omega Treble Boost Runoff Groove Treble Booster
One Knob Fuzz Colorsound Tonebender Mk I
One Knob Fuzz (Thug) D*A*M Meathead M-13

P

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
P45 Phaser MXR Phase 45
Para-Drive Emerson Paramount OD
Peachy Fuzz Frantone Peach Fuzz
Pep Box WEM Pep Box
Phaze 90 MXR Phase 90
Pink Plexi Distortion Lovepedal Purple Plexi
Pitbull - Highly tweakable Silicon Tone Bender
Pixel Drive Wampler Plexi-Drive
Pussy King - Hybrid Fuzz/Distortion Catalinbread Katzenkonig

Q

Quack Machine Envelope Filter EHX Q-Tron / Dr. Quack
Quiet Boost Z.Vex SHO (without crackle)

R

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Ramesses Muff Fuzz
Ramesses Fuzz Black Arts Toneworks Pharaoh
Range Master Germ. Treble Boost Dallas Rangemaster
Range Master Plus Si/Ge Dallas Rangemaster (modified)
Raw Fuzz Death by Audio Fuzz War
Reasonably Good Mangler Dwarfcraft Great Destroyer
Repeater Vox Repeat Percussion
Rock Box Z.Vex Box Of Rock
Rock Box Boostless
Rodent Distortion Pro Co Rat
Ruckus - High Gain Distortion Suhr Riot
RunOffGroove Ginger Runoffgroove Ginger

S

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Samurai Boost Keeley Katana Boost
Sandbank Drive Earthquaker Devices Dunes
Shin-Ei FY2 Companion Fuzz Shin Ei Companion Fuzz
Shred Meister Marshall Shredmaster
Simple Compressor MicTester Really Cheap Compressor
Sonic Tight'un Distortion D*A*M Sonic Titan
SoopaCharged Overdrive Catalinbread Super Charged OD
Spectre Verb Earthquaker Devices Ghost Echo
Spooky Mids Filter JHS Haunting Mids
Stinky Cheese Fuzz Lovetone Big Cheese
String Stinger Drive Vertex Effects Steel String Clean Drive
Sunny-T - cranked Sunn Model T EQD Acapulco Gold
Sunny-T Extreme - Total Sonic Destruction Modified EQD Acapulco Gold
Super Fuzz - Univox / Shin-Ei Companion Fuzz FY6 Univox Superfuzz
Super Skwisher - Ross/Dynacomp Compressor Ross Grey Compressor
Supreaux Bolt JHS SuperBolt (modified runoffgroove Supreaux)
Supreme Being Fuzz Devi Ever Goddess Zero
SweetyPuss - Octave-up fuzz Foxx Tone Machine derivative

T

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Throb Tremolo Schaller Tremolo
Thug DeLuxe 3-knob version of Thug Fuzz
Thug DeLuxe D*A*M Meathead M-27
Tone Bender Mk III Colorsound Tonebender v3
Tone Bender Pro MkII Colorsound Tonebender v2
Tone Ripper Colorsound OC140 Tonebender
Toxic Minx (Dist+) MXR Distortion+
Toxic Minx (OD250) DOD 250 Overdrive Preamp
Treble Deluxe Fryer Guitars Treble Deluxe (?)
TriVibe Runoff Groove TriVibe
Tube Screamer TS808 / TS9 Ibanez TS-808
Two Dozen Silvertones! trad3mark (@ Freestompboxes) Eighty Seven Percent De Stijl / JHS Twin Twelve

U

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Ultimatum Octave-Up Fuzz Fulltone Ultimate Octave
Univox Square Wave Fuzz Univox Square Wave Fuzz

V

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
The Verb - Box of Hall Reverb Beltron BTDR-2
Verb Engine
Vintage Pow Colorsound Overdrive
Vintage Pow (with charge pump) Colorsound Power Boost
Vintage Vox Drive
Vox Treble Boost Vox Treble Boost

W

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
War Pig - Black Sabbath in a Box Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra
Warp Sound - Fuzz and Filter Vorg/Pearl Warp Sound
WestWorld Drive EarthQuaker Devices Westwood
White Cliffs Drive TonetugaFX Blue Cliffs Overdrive Fuzz
Wrecktifier - High-Gain Distortion With Boost Wampler Triple Wreck

Y

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
Yellow Purl Drive Friedman Golden Pearl Overdrive

Fuzzpups

The Fuzzdog "Fuzzpups" are simply very narrow PCBs that have been designed to fit inside of a Hammond 1590G style enclosure. These enclosures are so narrow that the input and output jacks have to be offset from one another lest the tips of the RST (Ring-Sleeve-Tip) jacks collide. They've been designed to be this narrow so many many pedals can be arranged one right next to another for maximimizing the use of space that is otherwise limited by the physical dimensions of a musician's pedalboard.

Fuzzpup Kits

Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
FuzzPup Axis Fuzz Roger Mayer Axis Fuzz (mini)
FuzzPup Cone Ripper Devi Ever Torn's Peaker (mini)
FuzzPup Crusher Colin Raffel Bit Crusher (mini)
FuzzPup CSound Tremolo Colorsound Tremolo (mini)
FuzzPup Daddy Grace Drive/Distortion Runoff Groove Grace/Big Daddy (mini)
FuzzPup Double-Ups Double Super-Hard-On (mini)
FuzzPup EPic Boost (Echoplex) EP-3 Boost (mini)
FuzzPup Jordan Bosstone Jordan Bosstone (mini)
FuzzPup Llamatron Way Huge Red Lama (mini)
FuzzPup Maestro MFZ-1 Fuzz Maestro MFZ-1 Fuzz (mini)
FuzzPup Mosrite Fuzz Rite Mossrite Fuzz (mini)
FuzzPup Omega Treble Boost Runoff Groove Treble Boost (mini)
FuzzPup Orange Squeezer Orange Squeezer (mini)
FuzzPup Pink Plexi Lovepedal Purple Plexi (mini)
FuzzPup Rodent Pro Co Rat (mini)
FuzzPup Second Channel Z.Vex SHO (with volume control)
FuzzPup Sunny-T - Cranked Sunn Model T EQD Acapulco Gold (mini)
FuzzPup Tube Reamer Runoff Groove Tube Reamer (mini)
FuzzPup Vintage Soda - Intense Fuzz Devi Ever Soda Meiser (mini)

Origins

This is a list that was pulled originally from a British site with a discussion thread called The Fretboard: Poodle Pedal Parts Emporium Decoded. This list also contains our most recent review of the site and the "clone" pedals that Fuzzdog offers (As of 24-Mar-2019). In having added to this list we've at least doubled it. The exciting part is that this means that since May 2014, Fuzzdog has practically doubled the inventory of offerings available to build pedals. Whether or not these PCBs are still available...? You'll have to check with Fuzzdog...

We are recreating and providing the list here (and occasionally updating it) for no other use than for us here at Thermionic Studios to reference. It may also serve to help provide guidance if someone is looking to recreate a vintage pedal that's no longer in production and might find here the means for doing so.

As you review the list, you will see that there are cases where there is no corresponding original pedal name. In those cases where there is not a match, it means that:

  • None was provided by from the original discussion thread, or,
  • New pedal kits have been created and offered by Fuzzdog since the original posting, or,
  • There are no hints from the text at the Fuzzdog website helping anyone clue into which pedal is being cloned, or,
  • Despite our attempts (or the attempts of additional contributors) to determine which is the original pedal, we have not been able find a match, or,
  • It may be a Fuzzdog original and therefore has no "match".

If you're aware of a match that we don't have listed, please contact us and let us know, we'll be happy to give you credit!