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StewMac Sun Fuzz Pedal Kit
nspired by Analogman's Sun Face, our version finally gives you the control and tone shaping you've always wanted from the original Fuzz Face circuit. If you love Hendrix, Clapton, or Gilmour—this fuzz must be on your board.
The Fuzz Face is one of the foundational tones for electric guitar. However, the originals can be hard to control and don't play nice with many pickups and amps—even temperature can completely change the tone! Following Analogman's lead, we've swapped the germanium transistor for a silicon BC-108, giving the pedal a brighter tone, more gain, and enhanced touch sensitivity.
The most versatile fuzz you've ever tried
With simple controls for volume, fuzz, and tone it's easy to dial in just a touch of fuzz for chunky chords or max it out for super saturation and sustain. Want to go deep? You can further tailor the sound with the internal clean and bias controls for infinite tone tweaking. And it sounds great with humbuckers, single-coils, and P-90s—this fuzz can do it all.
Designed with the beginning pedal builder in mind
No need to wait months for Analogman or try your luck on the used market—this is an easy pedal to build.
We include everything you need:
- 32 page step-by-step instructions written for the first time builder
- Top quality, high tolerance components from resistors to switches
- Road-worthy rugged metal enclosure with all holes pre-drilled
- Bare or powder coated white finish
- 3PDT breakout board for low noise
- Internal trim pots for tone shaping
- Input, output, and power jacks rear mounted for easy cable routing
- True bypass
- Custom printed labels
Gary is not exclusively a destruction machine. Its distortion/overdrive section is a very streamlined take on EarthQuaker’s Gray Channel, a versatile DOD 250-derived double distortion. Like any good circuit of the 250 ilk, Gary’s hard clipping OD/distortion section bites viciously in the high- and high-mid frequencies, supported by a tight, punchy low-mid output. You can play anything from balanced M.O.R. studio crunch to unhinged feedback leads with this side of Gary. But it’s the envelope-triggered pulse-width fuzz—which most of us will hear as a gated fuzz, in many instances—that gives the Gary its werewolf duality. Though practice yields performance patterns that change depending on the instrument and effects you use around the Gary, its fuzz ultimately sputters and collapses into nothingness—especially when you throw a few pitch bends its way. The cut to silence can be jarring, but also compels a player to explore more rhythmic leads and choppy riffs that would sound like sludge with a Big Muff. The Gary’s unpredictable side means it won’t be for everybody, but its ability to span delicioso distortion and riotous splatter fuzz in a single unit is impressive.
EarthQuaker Devices Gary Automatic Pulse Width Modulation Fuzz/Overdrive Pedal
