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Monday, July 13, 2026

+++ LENARD +++

LENARD Re-Inventions

FUZZ 1 soon to be released ...

...check back on Aug. 1, 2026

...spec high ...price low

The Fuzz 1 is an OpAmp Fuzz that was created by Swedish
designer Karl Eriksson. He is a freelance designer who does nearly

all of the dirt pedals for Shenzhen Grand Technology who have handmade pedals made for many brands in China.
As such he has through them manufacturers and/or access to parts at wholesale prices to make his own brand if he wishes to sell to supplement his income.
This is for example what Electro Harmonix do. They design the pedals in America but the entire boards are sent as finished product to their NYC factory to be carefully inspected before being built into the enclosures. It is how they keep the prices down but the quality and reliability up

If he sets up a brand who is going to know immediately? Zero! If I set up a brand

then thousands will know in minutes. In fact 1,952 have dropped by in just last few hours.

So he wants to sell and have me market pedals under my LENARD Re-Inventions brand.

I said yes but only if I approve of the sound and build quality of the pedal.

As for an online store we will do what most small builders do at the onset and sell via REVERB.

I have no idea how it will do. Having really small builders as friends
they tell me 50 pedals give or take in the first year is normal so
don't quit my day job, LOL

The Fuzz will sell for $100.00 USD plus shipping. Karl tells me if this were made by most

of what's out there it would be at least $200.00 USD. Especially because of parts like the

high end OpAmp.

To be honest I see this Fuzz like a YouTuber who sells t-Shirts and Coffee cups. A way to

get by without selling out to the manufacturers'.

Check back in the August 2026 Post of THE UPDATER, for more on our humble offering.

FUZZ- JDM PEDALS Hot Plate ...Page's Tone Bender clone

$170.00 USD
jdm pedals

HOT PLATE

This is a take on Jimmy Page's Tone Bender V.3 with its

hot rod boost. Page through a Marshall was so pervasive

many guys bought a Marshall thinking the amp with the

pedal on was simply the natural sound of the amp. Back

in '69 I did, LOL. The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain

with a toggle for the Page mid boost.

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CONCLUSION
...it does the thing, 😇

FUZZ- MONGER PEDALS Snake Wine Fuzz ...1+1=3 ...or not?

MONGER PEDALS

SNAKE WINE FUZZ

$200.00 USD

It is a Germanium Fuzz. The maker does not say what it is
based from so I expect one of the Brit classics. Yes a Fuzz
Face or its father a Tone Bender. That said its big feature
is that you get a clean blend circuit with it.
The layout is a standard Volume, Tone and Gain and Blend
for the cleans and Gain to add some bite to the cleans.

CONCLUSION ___
First let's dispense with the video calling it a Muff.
A Muff does not use a 1313TA Germanium transistors.
The Fuzz part is at least an averagely good Fuzz
Facey thing but the cleans with the breakup in the
gain is what makes a difference. A very usable
noise to be sure.

Saturday, July 11, 2026

OVERDRIVE- TONECAT Claw & Order _NEW _ big bite from a little box

$167.00 USD

TONECAT
Claw & Order ·
More of a clean boost with growl and bite. The company

is in Melbourne Australia and makes a series of quirky

but usable pedals. All get the whimsical artwork.
The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain.

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CONCLUSION __
Great for busy chord work or boosting
other pedals that need some bite. The
sustain is very good and the lows
blossom out big on the tail of any
long sustained notes.

OVERDRIVE- MAD PROFESSOR Royal Blue _NEW _ a pedal with over-more

· MAD PROFESSOR ·

$375.00 USD
R O Y A L B L U E
O V E R D R I V E ·

This is their the Sweet Honey Distortion on steroids. It is all

about more. More gain at the end of the travel of the Drive

and more dynamics with ones pick attack.

CONCLUSION ___
More is not always better. The pedal is very difficult
to control getting ones years of expression in their
picking hand to adapt to the pedals over sensitivity.
Also the higher gain is not pleasing but somewhat