I’ve been on the hunt for something spittier that can work in a band context, and this has the added bonus of legit cleanup, unlike a MK1 Tone Bender or Zonk Machine. It’s silicon and seems to be perfectly happy sitting after my buffered tuner.
This is a Skreddy Pedals circuit that Japanese brand Animals Pedal did their version of with permission.
I’ve been playing it at home the last few days and it seems equally happy with single coils and humbuckers. It has a pretty lean sound, but there’s a lot of nice texture to it. It’s a very inspiring pedal to play in that it really responds to subtleties in playing. It has a little less of the chaos I was hoping for but makes up for it in musicality.
At practice I subbed it for the Rat clone I usually use and it did pretty ok. Definitely better than any other fuzz I’ve attempted to use in a band situation. It was a little hard to judge because we had a friend sitting in on guitar, and with 3 electrics going I didn’t want to push the level too much. Seems to play nice with other pedals. I play a semihollow guitar and it was definitely more prone to squealy feedback than the Rat if combined with a boost. It might just be a matter of skipping the boost and bumping up the level on this.
Overall I’m quite happy with this. It’s heavy and feels solidly built. The controls do meaningful things, and the cleanup sounds are really nice. I think that will be really handy for live use. I’m not that great at working the guitar volume yet, but I’m getting better, and this pedal is pretty forgiving in that area.
