Slash's New Octave Fuzz Box

Well..nothing to make fun of here.

To continue the seemingly endless “signiturizing” of nearly every other piece of gear that comes out these days is the MXR Slash Octave Fuzz SF01.  Regardless of whether you love Slash, hate Slash, used to love him but now hate him or just don’t dig that hat, this pedal is pretty choice.

Slash worked on a prototype for this pedal in the last few years and the results are a great sounding, all analog pedal with several functions and more options than you might expect.

The best way I can think to explain it is this:

This unit can be looked at as two separate “modules”.  
Module 1
-Contains a 70’s “Shag” fuzz and a sub octave.
-The Fuzz has Volume and Tone controls.
-The sub octave and fuzz paths have their own level controls.
-The Sub octave can be added to the fuzz circuit via a switch

Module 2
-Contains a classic octave up fuzz
-Gain and Tone can be tweaked via 2 internal pots (gotta unscrew the backplate)

These controls give you lots of options from organ-like chords to shrieking leads.  Adding the Fuzz and sub octave creates a super thick tone that can go from creamy warmth to crackly cuts.  Not to mention, true bypass.

Price is nowhere to be found at the moment but considering the no-joke fuzz options the Octave Fuzz SF01 should be huge competition for octave-only pedals.

For more info go to: www.jimdunlop.com