Holy Crapola... New Iron Ether Fuzz!

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Holy Crapola... New Iron Ether Fuzz!

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I just got a note from Taylor over @ Iron Ether pedals... HE MAKES A FUZZ! HE LOVES FUZZ... http://www.ironether.com/

Here's the info:

I don't have clips ready yet so this is just a teaser, but this is my bass fuzz design I've been working on. I don't know yet if this will be a regular pedal of mine or just a short run, but it's something I designed for myself and as a custom job for a customer, and I thought it came out so nice that I'd at least do a small run of them.

It's a bass fuzz mainly, one which can morph between huge industrial Brassmaster-style fuzz, to synthy gated Woolly Mammoth sounds. It works equally well with passive and active instruments and has a clean blend. It's small (2.5 x 4.5"), runs on standard power, and has quiet, pop-free relay-based true bypass. Each enclosure will be hand-etched and therefore no two will look exactly the same. Price will be $175.

Most of the controls are fairly straightforward:

Clean: clean signal volume
Fuzz: fuzz volume
EQ: pans between unfiltered and then progressively cuts highs.

The others are not quite as obvious:

Drive: controls input gain, and therefore how fuzzy it gets. At the low drive settings, you get light drive with prominent upper octave harmonics. As you go farther it gets hairier.

Morph: From about midway, and going to the right, you get classic Brassmaster fuzz sounds, with slight tonal changes. When you turn the morph knob below halfway, you get into the gated Woolly Mammoth-style sounds. Below halfway, the control shifts both how gated the signal is (all the way down only turns on on the loudest notes) and also the pulse width, which if you're unfamiliar with this, just try it and you'll see what it does to the sound. I find that the gated sounds work best when you put Drive all the way up and then tweak the Morph to taste.

Voice switch: swaps between 2 tone voicings. One is a little bit mid-scooped, and sits back in a mix more. The other has a pronounced vocal quality due to a prominent mid voicing.

Strangle: cuts bass in the fuzz sound, so that you can choose to have only the highs fuzzed up and your lows clean (by using the clean volume).

As with all my stuff, it's powered on a standard 9v DC center negative, so it'll work with daisy chains and all the usual power supplies.

Hope to have clips and a full page for this very soon.

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That sounds awesome! :drool: Too bad I just blew all my money on other gear...
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wonder what the price will be.. but that sounds fucking cool.
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The price is there in Steev's post: $175 (plus shipping, usually $10 in the US).

Let me know if you guys have any questions. I'll check back here but you can always reach me at info@ironether.com.
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omfg that looks sexy
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Wow, both of his other pedals look and sound great.
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Yeah, I'll be getting one of these. I got all excited about the Nautilus but this makes me almost more :joy: than that.
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tear the roof off the motha, sucka!

cool tweaks. looking forward to clips. :joy:
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Well hello everybody!

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I've been checking the Iron Ether website daily waiting for this to come out. I keep going between this and the Team Awesome Fuzz Machine. Whats the ETA on this puppy?
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SWEET thanks for putting this up I had not heard of Iron Ether. I just ordered the cygnet and I cant wait to hear the fuzz. any Ideas on when we can order?
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Hey guys, the Oxide is currently available. I haven't had a chance yet to record clips and put up a proper page for it, but hope to do so soon.
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