FUZZ- CITADEL ELECTRONICS Vector ___NEW ___ Octave Fuzz // serious slam!!!

 CITADEL ELECTRONICS 

VECTOR   HYBRID OCTAVE FUZZ 

$145.00 USD

This one has it all. Not just wild abandonment but plenty of control 

and a tight sound. It even checks the box for girth. If that is not 

enough you get lots of sustain and a wall of sound usually only 

found in a good Muff or a Fuzz Face. The layout is Octave, Volume, 

Tone, Gain and Wear ...input control. 

     CONCLUSION ___

Octave Fuzz has literally become this years fad. 

Everyone is making one. Many are flat out over 

the top or very in control to the point of laying

out of the way behind the vocals. This hits all

the bases. My first impression is it is both 

an all rounder and great value for your $.

BOOSTER- LPD PEDALS Spearhead ___NEW ___start perfect end perfect

LPD PEDALS

SPEARHEAD

$220.00 USD

The premise is simple. Go from guitar to pedal and shape the 

perfect sound to head to your amp while maintaining the 

sound of that guitar. Add punch, fullness, definition & harmonic 

clarity yet keep the character of your instrument. In short you 

simply want more of what the guitar already offers. If your 

guitar is the Mona Lisa then it simply needs the perfect frame 

around that picture.

The layout is Boost, and a boost of the entire signal. Tone in 

this case keeps the highs adequate but sweet. The Low Cut 

removes wool from the lowest lows yet you have Bass to give 

you as much as you need for a very full sound without the 

extra low, lows you do not need. Push gives you fat full mids 

& borrows its circuit from the pre of the classic EchoPlex.

      CONCLUSION ___

The damn thing simply adds what you need

and nothing you do not. Even if what you 

need is the heaviest sound on the planet, 😇.

OVERDRIVE- MELO TONE LABS Silent Bee OD ___NEW ___ a BB clearly better than!!!

$100.00 USD

Melo Tone Labs

Silent Bee Overdrive

It is a straight forward no fuss BluesBreaker clone.  

Unpretentious and to the point,

The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain.

      ___

     CONCLUSION ___

This one is very transparent. The sound is

crystal clear with exceptional definition.

Unusually punchy compared to others. 

Easily as good as those wanting 

double the money. 

FUZZ- PIGTRONICS Octava Micro ...8 years on and still Rockin' !

 P I G T R O N I C S 

OCTAVA 

$120.00 USD

The Octava is a take on the original Tycobrahe Octavia an Octave 

Fuzz that does a thing choking the signal forcing it to reverse 

back up towards the input. The side effect is that squeals up an 

octave while making a huge squelching noise and then drops 

out like it has a hard gate. Pigtronics do a good take on it.

The layout is Volume, Blend, Filter and Gain.

     CONCLUSION ___

The thing about the Pigtronix is it sounds very good. It is 

easy to pull out a great sound without having to fight it. 

It is a pedal most guys will use very sparingly so having it in a mini pedal tucked in a corner of your board makes a lot of sense. Yes Behringer make an excellent $80 clone of the Tycobrahe. They even nail the enclosure. The pedal is large and not quite as user friendly. But as for tone there isn't a bad choice.

OVERDRIVE- THUNDERTOMATE Over-Drive+ REV G___NEW ___ just a little strange?

$175.00 USD

ThunderTomate 

OVER-DRIVE+ rev G

Made in Spain for 25 years. This appears to be v.3. The first 

had 2 knobs, the second 3 & both were painted green. They 

point at being half booster pedals and dare I guess???  

Over boosted Tube Screamers, 😇.

The layout is Level, Tone & Gain. A toggle lets you select 

one of 3 voices. 

           CONCLUSION ___ 

The voices go from cleanish low gain/boost to 

medium gain to a harsh high gain. The sounds 

are not very transitional. I can't see who 

its aimed at.

JUST FOR FUN ___ Hank Coffey at a Flea Market

 FLEA MARKET FINDS

THE GEDDY LEE INTERVIEW ___ from May 19 2026

  THE GEDDY LEE INTERVIEW 2026   

    

OVERDRIVE- FRUIT FX CloudDriver ___NEW ___ same old but sounds fresh?

FruitFX 

  CloudDriver 

$150.00 USD

A handmade pedal from Long Beach California. It is a Low 

to Medium Gain OpAmp OD. Similar to the Boss SD-1 OD.

The layout is Volume, Gain and Tone. Another control, Clear 

lets you blend in cleans.

     CONCLUSION __

It is what the industry classifies as a transparent OD. 

The basic topography for all these pedals starts with 

a Tube Screamer. Once you choose a different OpAmp 

and clipping diodes you head into a Boss SD-1 & then 

further up the gain levels into more distortion. FruitFX 

takes the opposite route by using a HiFi OpAmp that 

is dead clean to start with so you have more of a Boost

pedal with EQ.

The 'Cloud' sounds surprisingly good. It could even be

an always on to add some serious life to your clean sound.  

Reasonably priced for a MIA pedal.