whole relationship that happens. So traditional We don’t want to be delivering super inexpensive
fuzz’s like ‘60s type germanium fuzzes are very commodity type pedals where it really wouldn’t
particular about that. If you put it downstream matter what the brand was. We want to have
after something it can sound bright and really something unique to say. We have a pretty long
harsh. So with the Pelt, I based the design road map ahead of us, and we’ve got some
around a Class A FET buffer to start with ideas. I’m blessed that I have a lab space at
because I wanted it to not care where it goes home that’s pretty ridiculous. I get to work from
in the signal chain. Having said that, I like home with my beautiful family and come up
to use it for more inspiration and to help me having fuzzes earlier, and if I’m going to have with stuff. So that’s kind of a constant fertile
when I just needed a push over the cliff, I would a phaser or a vibe kind of effect or something ground, so I’ll bring rough-hewn prototypes of
definitely use it in the front of the chain. It has I’ll usually put that in front of the fuzz because I stuff into work and float them around. From a
a cool feature where the bypass can be either like the textural chewy weirdness it gets when business standpoint, the business has been
true bypass or buffered bypass, so it can be you do that. So I would go: Engager Boost, super supportive of this, and the early response
a front of chain buffer if you want. But it’s got the Pelt fuzz, and then Full Moon Distortion. has been good. We think we’re doing a good
a very clean signal path and the tone controls The Full Moon is really a high-gain, reasonably thing, getting that level of quality out at what
are flat when they’re in the center so it actually shreddy thing! we think is an affordable price. So, we want
makes a really good end of chain boost as well.
to continue.
So if you want more drive or more gain, start of [WM] You’ve started making pedals with a
the chain is the right place to have it. If you want strong start, I take it you are just getting started?
just more of the exact same tone but louder,
[WM] You mentioned that part of the mission
of the pedals was to provide Fender offerings
back of the board is the place to have it. So [Stan] Yeah, we’re just feeling like were just for all places in the guitar signal chain. That
what I tell people is, buy two of them. getting started. If you look at the quality of the said, as a pedal designer, how do you balance
materials we use and the circuit board and that with not knowing what instruments players
I would probably put the Pelt fuzz next because closures, I think we’ve managed to hit pretty will us into the front end, nor any idea of what
I’m a fuzz earlier in the chain kind of guy. The comfortably a reasonably mid-tier price. I like people are going to run the pedals into?
Pelt is kind of fun in that it’s based around a to think that the circuit designs themselves are discreet Class A FET buffer. A lot of fuzz’s are high quality and perform well. We’re not trying [Stan] That is such an awesome question,
really particular about needing a super close to knock any boutique people out of the world because that’s one of the things that came up
relationship with your guitar and wanting to be at all, but I think we have some products that when we were in the development cycle. We
as close as they can to your guitars volume in some ways kind of hang in that space but got some people together just to throw ideas in,
control. The impedance of the output of your they’re not necessarily priced like that. So given because you never want to throw ideas away.
guitar changes as you vary the volume control we’ve learned how to do that, we very much You can have the brightest blazing star and
and that impacts the fuzz itself, and it’s this want to continue down that road. you still want to ask everybody around what
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