FUZZ- D.A.M. STOMPBOXES ...Maggot Brain MB-71 ...cheap at half the price ...if only

 D.A.M. STOMPBOXES MAGGOT BRAIN MB-71 

$445.00 USD

The company was started over 20 years ago by David Andrew who is better know now for literally doing clones for Sola Sound. He makes flawlessly accurate repro's of all the Tonebender Fuzz pedals. Not only is every single part dead accurate even a single piece of wire that on the original pedal is matched. If originally a worker randomly snip off guesstimated length of wire from a big roll ...that measures 1 & 14/16" then that is what is used. lol

Dave started his company repairing old Fuzz pedals before serious collecting became a thing. As much as he loved them he could see they could be improved on ...if nothing else but to make them more reliable and consistent. 

Dave's company and staff have been with him for years so Dave is semi retired and just makes a few of the  boxes for Solasound or is busy recreating a new old box from companies like Colorsound.

TheMaggot has a simple layout of volume and gain. I suspect it is loosely based on the last model of a Fuzz Face since it is uses silicon transistors. It is fatter than the FF and is a bit courser sounding like the old germanium Fuzzes. I know if I wanted to make a Fuzz I would start by taking the bottom off this and having a damn good look.

CONCLUSION

If you ever wanted a Fuzz that is headache free, covers all the bases and sounds killer. Stop here! You have it!

And take pride that yours will be #57. At $445.00 USD ...you will probably have lots of time to think about it :-)