When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. “The first pedal I built from scratch was a clone of the Sam Ash fuzz [Astrotone/ Fuzzz Boxx]. I ...

Some of the most recognizable guitar sounds in rock music were created with the fuzz pedal. The predecessor of distortion and overdrive pedals, it alters your guitar’s sound wave into a square wave, ...

In a previous entry into this “wondrous”, if not “ponderous” blogspace, I alluded to the fact that an industrious EE/designer could make a nice farthing or two just creating distortion pedals for ...