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, Cone Cranker, Dirt Dealer Fuzz, Eagle Claw OD, Eight Two Zero, Electrica +, Libido Boost, Mad Mule, Ocean Engine Chorus, Ramesses Fuzz, Sandbank Drive)
Thanks to Aelfric (24-Apr-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)
Thanks to Unkle Phil (02-May-2019) for updates to the list!
(Bad Mofo Bass Overdrive Preamp, Brass Blender Octo Factory, FA-1 FET Preamp, Hyper Fuzz, Impossibility Drive, Karlito Loves Fuzz, Pittbull, Verb Machine, Vintage Vox Drive)

FuzzDog's Pedal Kits List

0-9

# Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
1 19 Bells Multi-Muff Fuzz ("multi-muff" allows different builds, see below)
2 19 Bells Fuzz (Pink Pig) Skreddy P19 Fuzz
3 19 Bells Fuzz (The Bell) Mojo Hand Iron Bell
4 1978 IC Big Muff Pi V4-5 EHX opamp Big Muff
5 4-Track Fuzz MidFi Electronics Demo Tape Fuzz
6 7 of Dwarves Auto Wah Mad Professor Snow White

A

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

B

# Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
18 Bad Mofo Bass Overdrive Preamp D*A*M Ezekiel 25-17
19 Ball Breaker Marshall Blues Breaker
20 Bass Pig - Hog's Foot bass boost EHX Hog’s Foot
21 Bazz Fuzz Christian (@ homewrecker.com) Bazz Fuss
22 Beast Overdrive J Rockett Animal
23 BeeBaa Fuzz Roland Bee Baa Fuzz
24 Bee Juice Overdrive Mad Professor Sweet Honey
25 Big Beefy Preamp - Boost and OD Xotic Effects BB Preamp
26 Big Fat Balls - Dynamic Bass Envelope Filter EHX Bass Balls
27 Big Muff Pi EHX Big Muff
28 Big Muff Pi - Bass Blender
29 Bionic Guzz Fun Death by Audio Supersonic Fuzz Gun
30 Blaster - Alembic Stratoblaster Alembic Stratoblaster
31 Blend-a-Fenda Fender Blender
32 Blue Fool - MXR Blue Box+ MXR Blue Box
33 Boner Boost Z.Vex Super Hard-On
34 Box of Krunch MI Audio Crunch Box
35 Box of Tone 50 Lovepedal COT50
36 Brass Blender Moosopotamus Brass Blender
37 BrassMaster Maestro Brass Master
38 Brian May Treble Boost Brian May Treble Booster
39 BSIAB2 - Brown Sound in a Box BSIAB2
40 BuzzAround Baldwin-Burns Buzzaround

C

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

D

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

E

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

F

# Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
75 FA-1 FET Preamp Boss FA-1 FET Amplifier
76 Fat-Ass Blooper - Buffered Bass Looper
77 Fat Furry Freak - Bass Fuzz Monster ZVex Woolly Mammoth
78 Figaro Drive - Brian May In-A-Box Catalinbread Galileo
79 Filth Fack! - Crazy Germanium Fuzz Z.Vex Fuzz Factory
80 Finger of Fuzz Penny Pedals Fingerprint
81 Forever (Discontinued) Lovepedal Eternity
82 Forever Explosion (Discontinued) Lovepedal Eternity Burst
83 FoxxTave - Foxx Tone Machine Fuzz Foxx Tone Machine / Fulltone Ultimate Octave
84 Fuzz Face Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face
85 Fuzzy Muff EHx Muff Fuzz

G

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

H

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

I

# Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
103 Impossibility Drive Effector 13 Improbability Drive

J

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

K

# Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
109 Karlito Loves Fuzz Lovepedal Karl Fuzz
110 Klon Buffer Buffer from Klon Centaur
111 Klone - Boutique Transparent OD Klon Centaur

L

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

M

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

O

# Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
138 Ocean Engine Chorus Earthquaker Devices Sea Machine
139 Octave Master MXR Blue Box (variant)
140 Octavia Roger Mayer Octavia
141 Octo Factory Stork Eight Factory
142 Orange Squeezer Compressor Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer
143 Omega Treble Boost Runoff Groove Treble Booster
144 One Knob Fuzz Colorsound Tonebender Mk I
145 One Knob Fuzz (Thug) D*A*M Meathead M-13

P

# Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
146 P45 Phaser MXR Phase 45
147 Para-Drive Emerson Paramount OD
148 Peachy Fuzz Frantone Peach Fuzz
149 Pep Box WEM Pep Box
150 Phaze 90 MXR Phase 90
151 Pink Plexi Distortion Lovepedal Purple Plexi
152 Pitbull - Tweakable Silicon Tone Bender Mictester (FSB member) Silicon Tonebender
153 Pixel Drive Wampler Plexi-Drive
154 Pussy King - Hybrid Fuzz/Distortion Catalinbread Katzenkonig

Q

# Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
155 Quack Machine Envelope Filter EHX Q-Tron / Dr. Quack
156 Quiet Boost Z.Vex SHO (without crackle)

R

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

S

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

T

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

U

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

V

# Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
201 The Verb - Box of Hall Reverb Beltron BTDR-2
202 Verb Engine Death by Audio Reverberation Machine
203 Vintage Pow Colorsound Overdrive
204 Vintage Pow (with charge pump) Colorsound Power Boost
205 Vintage Vox Drive Lovepedal Englishman
206 Vox Treble Boost Vox Treble Boost

W

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

Y

# Fuzz Dog Clone Name Original Effect Name
212 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
213 FuzzPup Axis Fuzz Roger Mayer Axis Fuzz (mini)
214 FuzzPup Cone Ripper Devi Ever Torn's Peaker (mini)
215 FuzzPup Crusher Colin Raffel Bit Crusher (mini)
216 FuzzPup CSound Tremolo Colorsound Tremolo (mini)
217 FuzzPup Daddy Grace Drive/Distortion Runoff Groove Grace/Big Daddy (mini)
218 FuzzPup Double-Ups Double Super-Hard-On (mini)
219 FuzzPup EPic Boost (Echoplex) EP-3 Boost (mini)
220 Fuzz Face - Mini Fuzz Face (mini)
221 FuzzPup Jordan Bosstone Jordan Bosstone (mini)
222 FuzzPup Llamatron Way Huge Red Lama (mini)
223 FuzzPup Maestro MFZ-1 Fuzz Maestro MFZ-1 Fuzz (mini)
224 FuzzPup Mosrite Fuzz Rite Mossrite Fuzz (mini)
225 FuzzPup Omega Treble Boost Runoff Groove Treble Boost (mini)
226 FuzzPup Orange Squeezer Orange Squeezer (mini)
227 FuzzPup Pink Plexi Lovepedal Purple Plexi (mini)
228 FuzzPup Rodent Pro Co Rat (mini)
229 FuzzPup Second Channel Z.Vex SHO (with volume control)
230 FuzzPup Sunny-T - Cranked Sunn Model T EQD Acapulco Gold (mini)
231 FuzzPup Tube Reamer Runoff Groove Tube Reamer (mini)
232 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!