The Microphonic Fuzz is a ground-breaking fuzz box with a fully-controllable mic inside - that can be switched in or out. It’s a hybrid pedal - the fuzz is analog, while the mic is controlled digitally.
Generally, when audio equipment becomes ‘microphonic’ it starts picking up sounds acoustically (often most noticeable if you tap it). It’s usually a sign that it’s dying - but on the way to expiring it can start to make amazing fluky sounds you don’t normally get…
The Microphonic Fuzz has this as a controllable phenomenon… And it can be switched out - brought back to life - to be a perfectly-behaving high-gain fuzz box!
This microphone thickens the sound, magnifies the ambience of the room and makes everything sound far more ‘live’ and exciting!!
The Fuzz
This is our own fuzz circuit, high-gain, not very saggy, and not gated. Turn down your guitar volume and it cleans up quite well, and in conjunction with the ‘Tone’ switch can do three varied sounds - including one where there’s no tone circuit at all, which has a mid frequency-heavy profile. Also on offer is an ultra-scooped setting (lots of bass and treble, no mids), which, combined with the middle-y setting, produces a massive full-range tone (the third one).
It has a very useful ‘Hi Freq’ knob, adjusting the amount of treble overall.
The Microphone
The internal mic is just inside the grill on the bottom end panel of the enclosure, and when engaged, picks up the sound around it - of course whatever comes out of your amp - and sends it back through that amp, with the sound of the room added. Then it does this again and again, magnifying the ambience of the room.
Of course it can feedback easily when pushed, but the strong filters can concentrate feedback around a particular note (eg the key of the song you’re playing). It takes a bit of careful balancing of the hi and lo-pass controls and the mic volume - and maybe try moving/rotating the pedal - but some great fluky sounds are easily possible!
WARNING! The Microphonic Fuzz contains an open mic with possibly huge amounts of gain; this can easily produce loud feedback - which can damage hearing if not carefully controlled!
ALSO! The pedal has a strong white light display - activating when the mic is feeding back, and when some internal squarewave tremolo added, these can flash quickly… If you look directly into them it can trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy and cause dizziness, nausea, or headaches in the general population.
There are two strong filters to shape and direct the feedback to specific frequency regions, and to get rid of unwanted regions.
There’s a ‘Rate’ knob that adds a chopped (squarewave) tremolo to the mic circuit (not the guitar circuit), the speed going from very slow blocks of sound up to a slow buzz.
There’s a subtle flanging effect on the mic - quite shallow depth; this is to give slight variation to the feedback note, and to stop feedback being one single, piercing, scream…
Some interesting features…
In a big room, the distance between the pedal and the amp becomes a factor, as sound does take a certain amount of time to travel between the two (sound travels at 343m/sec).
This is heard as a very fast echo, a spatial aspect to the sound - made from the ambience of the room!
Turning the pedal physically by 90 degrees will change the feedback frequencies available.
Using an external mic plugged into the Microphonic Fuzz, you can put the mic in front of your drummer’s kit - and hear the drums through your amp - with any other effects on it that you’re using on your pedalboard!
You can sing into the pedal’s internal mic - through fuzz, feedback, and tremolo!!! It can be battery-powered (9v PP3), so when hand-held you only need a lead in the output socket. When you sing into it, the white LEDs illuminate your mouth…
Using headphones, the ‘mic’ side of the pedal works quite differently, no feedback - just adding in the acoustic string and plectrum noise (provided the pedal is close enough to you). This is a different effect - but can be useful.
Warranty & Returns
All New products are covered by the manufacturers new warranty. Please check their website for the length of warranty and warranty conditions. If an item you receive is faulty get in touch with us ASAP. Second Hand products come with a 4 week warranty from us. If there is an issue let us know ASAP! This covers normal use and does not cover accidental damage, misuse, wrong power plugged into it, modding, water damage or any other damage caused by mistreatment. Just treat it nice and all will be good!
Shipping
We send A LOT of packages every week so don't worry about the shipping side of things!
We've never lost a thing and your awesome new gear will be packed up really well to avoid any damage in transit.
If your order comes in before 2pm we will ship it same day. Most of the time we pack things up all the way to 4pm so just call if you need it to leave same day after 2pm.
We ship mainly with Australia Post but may use a courier depending on location and size of the package.
Free Post ships with Australia Post standard and expected shipping times are between 4-6 business days depending on location. It will be longer to outside of metro and rural areas.
Express Post will usually be with you next business day in metro areas of QLD, NSW, SA, VIC and TAS. WA will take 2 days to metro and extra days after that to out side metro and rural areas.
Everything we ship has a tracking number with the exception of some power cables and smaller envelope packages. You will be emailed tracking once your order has been shipped!
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The Microphonic Fuzz is a ground-breaking fuzz box with a fully-controllable mic inside - that can be switched in or out. It’s a hybrid pedal - the fuzz is analog, while the mic is controlled digitally.
Generally, when audio equipment becomes ‘microphonic’ it starts picking up sounds acoustically (often most noticeable if you tap it). It’s usually a sign that it’s dying - but on the way to expiring it can start to make amazing fluky sounds you don’t normally get…
The Microphonic Fuzz has this as a controllable phenomenon… And it can be switched out - brought back to life - to be a perfectly-behaving high-gain fuzz box!
This microphone thickens the sound, magnifies the ambience of the room and makes everything sound far more ‘live’ and exciting!!
The Fuzz
This is our own fuzz circuit, high-gain, not very saggy, and not gated. Turn down your guitar volume and it cleans up quite well, and in conjunction with the ‘Tone’ switch can do three varied sounds - including one where there’s no tone circuit at all, which has a mid frequency-heavy profile. Also on offer is an ultra-scooped setting (lots of bass and treble, no mids), which, combined with the middle-y setting, produces a massive full-range tone (the third one).
It has a very useful ‘Hi Freq’ knob, adjusting the amount of treble overall.
The Microphone
The internal mic is just inside the grill on the bottom end panel of the enclosure, and when engaged, picks up the sound around it - of course whatever comes out of your amp - and sends it back through that amp, with the sound of the room added. Then it does this again and again, magnifying the ambience of the room.
Of course it can feedback easily when pushed, but the strong filters can concentrate feedback around a particular note (eg the key of the song you’re playing). It takes a bit of careful balancing of the hi and lo-pass controls and the mic volume - and maybe try moving/rotating the pedal - but some great fluky sounds are easily possible!
WARNING! The Microphonic Fuzz contains an open mic with possibly huge amounts of gain; this can easily produce loud feedback - which can damage hearing if not carefully controlled!
ALSO! The pedal has a strong white light display - activating when the mic is feeding back, and when some internal squarewave tremolo added, these can flash quickly… If you look directly into them it can trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy and cause dizziness, nausea, or headaches in the general population.
There are two strong filters to shape and direct the feedback to specific frequency regions, and to get rid of unwanted regions.
There’s a ‘Rate’ knob that adds a chopped (squarewave) tremolo to the mic circuit (not the guitar circuit), the speed going from very slow blocks of sound up to a slow buzz.
There’s a subtle flanging effect on the mic - quite shallow depth; this is to give slight variation to the feedback note, and to stop feedback being one single, piercing, scream…
Some interesting features…
In a big room, the distance between the pedal and the amp becomes a factor, as sound does take a certain amount of time to travel between the two (sound travels at 343m/sec).
This is heard as a very fast echo, a spatial aspect to the sound - made from the ambience of the room!
Turning the pedal physically by 90 degrees will change the feedback frequencies available.
Using an external mic plugged into the Microphonic Fuzz, you can put the mic in front of your drummer’s kit - and hear the drums through your amp - with any other effects on it that you’re using on your pedalboard!
You can sing into the pedal’s internal mic - through fuzz, feedback, and tremolo!!! It can be battery-powered (9v PP3), so when hand-held you only need a lead in the output socket. When you sing into it, the white LEDs illuminate your mouth…
Using headphones, the ‘mic’ side of the pedal works quite differently, no feedback - just adding in the acoustic string and plectrum noise (provided the pedal is close enough to you). This is a different effect - but can be useful.
Warranty & Returns
All New products are covered by the manufacturers new warranty. Please check their website for the length of warranty and warranty conditions. If an item you receive is faulty get in touch with us ASAP. Second Hand products come with a 4 week warranty from us. If there is an issue let us know ASAP! This covers normal use and does not cover accidental damage, misuse, wrong power plugged into it, modding, water damage or any other damage caused by mistreatment. Just treat it nice and all will be good!
Shipping
We send A LOT of packages every week so don't worry about the shipping side of things!
We've never lost a thing and your awesome new gear will be packed up really well to avoid any damage in transit.
If your order comes in before 2pm we will ship it same day. Most of the time we pack things up all the way to 4pm so just call if you need it to leave same day after 2pm.
We ship mainly with Australia Post but may use a courier depending on location and size of the package.
Free Post ships with Australia Post standard and expected shipping times are between 4-6 business days depending on location. It will be longer to outside of metro and rural areas.
Express Post will usually be with you next business day in metro areas of QLD, NSW, SA, VIC and TAS. WA will take 2 days to metro and extra days after that to out side metro and rural areas.
Everything we ship has a tracking number with the exception of some power cables and smaller envelope packages. You will be emailed tracking once your order has been shipped!
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