Fuzzdog Pedals
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 come up with original pedals at reasonable prices. Fuzzdog offers many such pedals in order for people to get a "cheaper" version of a pedal that's currently being offered for sale. We will not rent such pedals despite the fact we've accidentally purchased a couple of such pedals.
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 to them - they cost maybe $25.00 in pieces, and come from electronic schematics that were worked out long ago. We have little sympathy for such pedal manufacturers and their prices. We believe it is not unethical to clone and make available such pedals when those manufacturers are demonstrably preying on potential 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, 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, for example). 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 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.
The Pedal List
| Fuzz Dog's Pedal Kits | |
|---|---|
| Fuzz Dog Clone Name | Original Effect Name |
| 7 of Dwarves Auto Wah | |
| 19 Bells Multi-Muff Fuzz | |
| 1978 IC Big Muff Pi V4-5 | EHX opamp Big Muff |
| 4-Track Fuzz | MidFi Electronics Demo Tape Fuzz |
| Acti-Boost: Type A & Type R | Xotic Effects AC Booster/RC Booster |
| Ampeg Scrambler | Ampeg Scrambler |
| Ampegulator: Ampeg Amp Shaper | Catalinbread SFT(?) |
| Analog-like Echo | |
| Animatron | Human Gear Animato |
| AstroTone Fuzz: Sam Ash Fuzzz Box | Sam Ash Fuzzz Box |
| Axis Fuzz | Roger Mayer Axis Fuzz |
| Bad Mofo Bass Overdrive Preamp | |
| Ball Breaker | Marshall Blues Breaker |
| Bass Pig - Hog's Foot bass boost | EHX Hog’s Foot |
| Bazz Fuzz | homewrecker.com Bazz Fuss |
| Bee Juice Overdrive | Mad Professor Sweet Honey |
| Big Beefy Preamp - Boost and Overdrive | 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 | |
| Brass Blender | |
| BrassMaster | Maestro Brass Master |
| Brian May Treble Boost | Brian May Treble Booster |
| BSIAB2 - Brown Sound in a Box | BSIAB2 |
| BuzzAround | Burns Buzzaround |
| Cab Sim ROG Condor | Runoff Groove Condor Cabinet Simulator |
| Candyman Overdrive | Paul Cochrane Timmy |
| Cherub Chorus | Frequency Central Chorus |
| Chilly Biscuit Distortion | Crowther Hot Cake |
| Clay Jones Overdrive | Landgraff Dynamic Overdrive / Clay Jones Overdrive |
| Clock of Tone | Lovepedal Church of Tone 50 |
| Cone Ripper - Filthy OD/Fuzz | Devi Ever Torn's Peaker |
| Country Crunch Drive | Wampler Paisley Drive |
| Creme Fluff Fuzz | Frantone Cream Puff Fuzz |
| Crusher - Analog Bit Crusher | Bit Crusher by Colin Raffel |
| CSound Tremolo | Colorsound Tremolo |
| Dirt Dessert - Harmonic Messulator | Crowther Audio Prunes & Custard |
| Dirty Kazoo Overdrive | |
| Disorder Drive | Fulltone OCD |
| Double-Down Boner Boost / Overdrive | ZVEX Super Duper 2-In-1 Dual Boost |
| Dumb Lloyd | Shin’s Dumbloid |
| EA Tremolo | Electronics Australia Tremolo |
| Eagle Claw Overdrive | |
| Echo Blue Delay | Mad Professor Deep Blue |
| EMpathy Drive | Emerson Em Drive |
| Emperor Dual Overdrive | |
| Engorged Gherkin Fuzz | Way Huge Swollen Pickle |
| English Channel - Vox Top-Boost In A Box | Runoff Groove English Channel |
| Enlightened Drive | Hermida Zendrive |
| EPic Boost | Xotic Effects EP Booster |
| Ex-Con Overdrive | |
| Expandotron-ZZ | Bixonic Expandora |
| FA-1 FET Preamp | DOD Fet Preamp |
| Fat-Ass Blooper - Buffered Bass Looper | |
| Fat Furry Freak - Bass Fuzz Monster | ZVex Wooly 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 w/ Options | Foxx Tone Machine / Fulltone Ultimate Octave |
| Fuzz Face | Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face |
| Fuzz Face - Mini | Fuzz Face (mini) |
| FuzzPup Axis Fuzz | Roger Mayer Axis Fuzz (mini) |
| FuzzPup Cone Ripper | Devi Ever Torn's Peaker (mini) |
| FuzzPup Crusher - Analog Bit Crusher | 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 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 Second Channel | |
| 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) |
| Fuzzy Muff | EHx Muff Fuzz |
| Gimp FX Ultr-Fk Fuzz | Mountain King Megalith |
| The Gimp - Filthy Fack With Added OOMPH | |
| Gloomy Drive | Univox Uni-Drive |
| Graphic Fuzz | Earth Sound Fuzz |
| Greasy Tool - Crossover Distortion | Z.Vex Machine |
| Green Stinger - Octave UP! | |
| Gristleizer - Mad Modulations! | The Gristleizer |
| The Guv | Marshall Guv’nor |
| HaraKiri Overlord - Too Much Fuzz! | Devi Ever Disaster Fuzz (?) |
| Harmonic Energiser | Systech Harmonic Energizer |
| Harmonic Percolator | Interfax HP-1 Harmonic Percolator |
| HellGazer - Total Sonic Assault | |
| HF Modulator | Jen HF Modulator |
| Hot Snake Treble Boost | Catalinbread Naga Viper |
| Hype Fuzz / Destructor Drive | |
| Impossibility Drive | |
| Jordan Bosstone | Jordan Bosstone |
| Joy Drive | Wampler Ecstacy |
| Juicy Blue Dynamic Bass Overdrive | |
| Karlito Loves Fuzz | |
| Klone - Boutique Transparent Overdrive | Klon Centaur |
| Lester Fuzz | Based on Ramesses Fuzz |
| Libido Boost | |
| L'il Louie - Fender Tweed tone box | Lovepedal Les Lius |
| Little Screamer | AMZ Son of Screamer |
| Llamatron - Red Llama Fuzz | Way Huge Red Llama |
| Lovely Squeezer Compressor | Rothwell Love Squeezer Compressor |
| LPB Boost / Treble Boost / Shouting Bird | EHX LPB2 / EHX Screaming Bird |
| Lunar Shot - Optical Trem | Tremulus Lune Tremolo |
| Mad Mule - Neil Young's Weld and Rust Tones In A Box | |
| Magic Vibes Tremelo | Magnatone Amp Tremolo |
| Maximus Distortium - High Gain Distortion | Krank Distortion |
| MegaHIWatt - Vintage HIWATT Amp Tone | Catalinbread WIIO / RAH |
| MicroAmp | MXR Microamp |
| Moon Unit - Dark Side of the Fuzz | |
| Moo-Tron Auto Filter | Musitronics Mutron III |
| Morning Wood Drive | Marshall Blues Breaker (+gain) |
| Mosrite Fuzz Rite | Mosrite Fuzzrite |
| Mucky Hush Overdrive | Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret |
| Muff Gun Fuzz | |
| Mutantes Fuzz | “Os Mutantes” Regulus VIII |
| Orange Squeezer Compressor | Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer |
| Omega Treble Boost | Runoff Groove Treble Booster |
| One Knob Fuzz | Colorsound Tonebender Mk I |
| P45 Phaser | MXR Phase 45 |
| Para-Drive | Emerson Paramount Overdrive |
| Peachy Fuzz | Frantone Peach Fuzz |
| 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 |
| Quack Machine - Dr Quack Auto Envelope Filter | EHX Q-Tron / Dr. Quack |
| Quiet Boost | Z.Vex SHO (without crackle) |
| Ramesses Muff Fuzz | |
| Range Master Germ. Treble Boost | Dallas Rangemaster |
| 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 |
| Samurai Boost | Keeley Katana Boost |
| Shin-Ei FY2 Companion Fuzz | Shin Ei Companion Fuzz |
| Shred Meister | Marshall Shredmaster |
| SoopaCharged Overdrive | Catalinbread Super Charged Overdrive |
| Spectre Verb | |
| Stinky Cheese Fuzz | Lovetone Big Cheese |
| Sunny-T - cranked Sunn Model T | EQD Acapulco Gold |
| Sunny-T Extreme - Total Sonic Destruction | |
| Super Fuzz - Univox / Shin-Ei Companion Fuzz FY6 | Univox Superfuzz |
| Super Skwisher - Ross/Dynacomp Compressor | Ross Grey Compressor |
| Supreaux Bolt | Runoff Groove Supreaux Deux |
| SweetyPuss - Octave-up fuzz | Foxx Tone Machine derivative |
| Throb Tremolo | Schaller Tremolo |
| Thug DeLuxe | 3-knob version of Thug Fuzz |
| Thug Fuzz | D*A*M Meathead |
| Tone Bender Mk III | Colorsound Tonebender v3 |
| Tone Bender Pro MkII | Colorsound Tonebender v2 |
| Tone Ripper | |
| Toxic Minx - Distortion+/OD250 | MXR Distortion+ |
| Treble Deluxe | |
| TriVibe | Runoff Groove TriVibe |
| Tube Screamer TS808 / TS9 | Ibanez TS-808 |
| Ultimatum Octave-Up Fuzz | Fulltone Ultimate Octave |
| Univox Square Wave Fuzz | Univox Square Wave Fuzz |
| The Verb - Box of Hall Reverb | Beltron BTDR-2 |
| Vintage Pow - Colorsound Overdriver / Power Boost | Colorsound Overdrive |
| Vintage Vox Drive | |
| Vox Treble Boost | Vox Treble Boost |
| War Pig - Black Sabbath in a Box | Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra |
| Warp Sound - Fuzz and Filter | Vorg/Pearl Warp Sound |
| Wrecktifier - High-Gain Distortion With Boost | Wampler Triple Wreck |
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 02-Jan-2018). In having added to this list we've almost doubling it. The exciting part is that this means that since May 2014, Fuzzdog has practically doubled the inventory of offerings available to build pedals.
We are recreating and providing this 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 the means for doing so here.
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 us clue into which pedal is being cloned,
- Despite our attempts 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!
