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Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:14 pm
by 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.

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Re: Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:19 pm
by skullservant
's it a Big Muff? Looks tacky as hell, but fun no less.

Re: Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:23 pm
by 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.

Re: Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 4:52 pm
by theavondon
I want one, but I'm afraid it'll just look super shitty.

Re: Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:42 pm
by 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.

Re: Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:50 pm
by 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.

Re: Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 2:49 am
by McPherson123
This thing is frickin' psycho! I want one.

Check out the first ever video demo:

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

Re: Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 1:59 pm
by John Matrix
Maybe it's just me but like 90% of the stuff Hovercraft makes is ugly as shit.

Re: Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 3:08 pm
by 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.

Re: Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 12:56 am
by D.o.S.
I wonder what it's based on?

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

Re: Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 3:31 am
by 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.

Re: Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 8:23 pm
by ck3
D.o.S. wrote: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?

Re: Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 11:22 pm
by resincum
do they re use jet city pedal enclosures?

Re: Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:36 am
by fuzzonaut
McPherson123 wrote: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.

Re: Hovercraft Amps' fuzz pedal - The Ionostrofear

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:40 am
by Jwar
resincum wrote: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.