MERCURY - VACUUM TUBE FUZZ

The MERCURY fuzz pushes vacuum tube technology to its absolute limits for some devastatingly thick and rich fuzz sounds that are not attainable with traditional transistor fuzzes. This beautiful little pedal is built on a vintage, hand selected space grade pencil tube and N.O.S. germanium point-contact crystal diodes – there"s a lot of glass in this pedal! This combination of hot biased and cold-biased tube gain stages followed by a crystal diode asymmetric clipping circuit delivers a beautiful blend of thermionic and solid-state fuzzed guitar tone with unprecendented clarity and string-to-string definition. At full throttle this little pedal can generate outrageous "blocking-distortion" which sounds like a tube amp being pushed beyond it"s limits. Rolling back the "Fuzz" control creates an immense, bold fuzz tone with endless amounts of smooth liquid sustain that stretches notes into infinity. At lower fuzz settings the MERCURY cleans up to produce some beautiful and natural sounding (real!) tube dirt and overdrive. It"s an incredibly simple, yet versatile pedal.