Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

[insubordination]

...or, the Kickstarter for one: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hey ... -build-all

$120 isn't bad. I like the case, not into the crammed lettering (it was called the Icarus but they changed it and photoshopped the image so maybe it will look different IRL?). Can't listen to the soundclips at work so someone tell me how it sounds.

[skullservant]

's it a Big Muff? Looks tacky as hell, but fun no less.

[Chankgeez]

Ha ha, yeah, I looked at the picture before reading what you wrote about it and was gonna say that footswitch looks photoshopped.

Sounds big, doomy and blown out. I'd try one out.

[theavondon]

I want one, but I'm afraid it'll just look super shitty.

[jskadiang]

They really should have stuck to the original name. Apparently each one has unique cosmetics though, so I suppose, per request, you can ask for your pedal to not look like shit.

[zRobertez]

What are those bar things? Are they just for keeping from changing your settings by accident?
I always want pedals on the bottom row cause I love mixing things up with my feet all the time.

[McPherson123]

This thing is frickin' psycho! I want one.

Check out the first ever video demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObequrU-nTw

[John Matrix]

Maybe it's just me but like 90% of the stuff Hovercraft makes is ugly as shit.

[ApeLincoln]

Yeah I really dig the Dwarvenaut 20, but this seems a bit meh to me? It's pretty good sounding, and maybe its just not for me but it doesn't have much interesting going for it aside from its relationship with hovercraft amps.

[D.o.S.]

I wonder what it's based on?

no headphones at the moment, not even gonna try it with laptop speakers.

[McPherson123]

Sounds like a Ratt, Ram's Head and a Marshall JCM 900 all fucked and this is the baby. That's the best I can think to describe it anyway. Very amp-like and ballsy while still having insane streams of gain flowing or avalanching out of it.

[ck3]

I wonder what it's based on?

I just received one of these in the mail today (a V2.0, I believe). It sounds like a cross between a Megalith and a BeeBaa with a darker EQ range, but also has useful low-gain settings. The only problem has been bleedthrough of the distorted signal when the pedal is bypassed. Has anyone else noticed the same bleedthrough with their unit?

[resincum]

do they re use jet city pedal enclosures?

[fuzzonaut]

Sounds like a Ratt, Ram's Head and a Marshall JCM 900 all fucked and this is the baby. That's the best I can think to describe it anyway. Very amp-like and ballsy while still having insane streams of gain flowing or avalanching out of it.

I have one, don't know what version, 2013, or 2014. No bleed through.

It's a modded jet city pedal. Shockwave, IIRC.

[Jwar]

do they re use jet city pedal enclosures?

The use the same PCB and everything. All they do is change a few values of the circuit. At least that's what John at Center Street confirmed when he bought one and compared them. They are rip off artists. The whole company I mean.