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Balance: producer, hip-hop artist, movie sound designer, modular synth player, and member of Jogja Hip Hop Foundation.

While the pedal builders at Sehat Effectors are in the game for their love of the 6-string, theyā€™ve since begun exploring what effects pedals mean to other kinds of instrumentalists.

This time, Iā€™d like to share my perspective as a pedal builder on how our effects pedalsā€”originally crafted with guitarists in mindā€”are experiencing an exciting evolution in use. Our customer base spans around the globe, and as it turns out, many of them arenā€™t guitarists. Instead, our pedals are finding their way into the hands of non-guitarist musicians like DJs, synth players, movie sound directors, and even drummers. Yes, a drummer once used one of my fuzz pedals in a drum miking setupā€”quite an extreme yet bold experiment! This made me wonder: How did such a phenomenon come about?

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A Sehat Effectors Blown Face, atop a Marshall head and amidst other brand-name variations of the classic Fuzz Face.

While our columnist started out averse to the classic distortion pedal, they soon dove deep into its circuits to invent their own take.

Itā€™s undeniableā€”the Fuzz Face is the most popular fuzz pedal in music history. Although it wasnā€™t the first fuzz ever created, nearly every stompbox manufacturer has attempted to replicate its circuitry. Furthermore, almost every guitarist has, at some point, incorporated it on their pedalboard. The question arises: Why? Is it due to its distinctive enclosure shape? Or, the eternal clichĆ© question: Is it simply because Jimi Hendrix used it?

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Fantastic freaks that annihilate preconceptions about how pedals should look and sound.

The effects pedal industry is boomingā€”or was, before the coronavirus. Still, we carry on and continue to create new music and new sounds. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of different stompboxes available. Musicians and producers are clamoring to have an arsenal of sounds at their feet. What was once only possible in a recording studio can now be fully realized in almost any environment, thanks to pedals.

So, people are experimenting with sounds more than ever, and weird sounds abound, but it seems that most stompboxes are relatively plain-looking: mostly rectangular metal enclosures, usually painted or printed with some very cool designs, but stillā€¦. What does one do when one wants a pedal that looks as unique as it sounds?

They go a-hunting for strange stomps! There are pedal makers popping up who are building wild, non-traditional pedals. Some are fairly large companies that you might already know, while others are smaller operations that deserve to be better known. This article aims to share some of these wild units and their makers with our readers. We think youā€™ll be amazed by these creations!

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