FUZZ- AURAL DREAM Purely Fuzz ... Fuzz ??? What Fuzz ???

AURAL DREAM PURELY FUZZ 

$45.00 USD

The company makes this and the Warm Drive which is a Mad Professor Amber. A low 

gain drive with a big mid boost that is meant to act almost ambient like but in my book it is muddy. They have since gone into a dozen digital 'Shoegaze' pedals that are all but unusable special effects and full of bugs like bad latency. 

This is a clone of the Mad Professor Fire Red Fuzz. The layout is volume, tone and gain. A toggle lets you choose between LED or a Silicon clipping diodes. Which is sure sign 

this is OpAmp pedal.

Having heard the Mad P. this is indeed in the ballpark. What baffles me is it doesn't sound like a Fuzz at all. It sounds like a hard clipper. In fact a Rat is a hard clipper 

and comes closer to a Fuzz than this.

CONCLUSION

So much for the total Fuzz B.S. By today's standards this is a medium gain OD

with the ability to move into a bit of high gain. The lows are weak which it inherited from it's Tube Screamer granddad. It has a nice openness and bit of a transparency with a hint of a Vemuram Jan Ray vibe when using the LED diode and 

keeping back the gain. So it is what it is. But it sounds good. Totally usable. 

BUT? The BOSS SD-1 covers much of the same territory. It does not have the quasi 

transparency thing but it is tube amp sounding which is good or inconsequential to 

your needs. At $60.00 USD it is more but $15 is not much of a deal breaker.