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Hi, I'm Chase from Thunder.
>> Hey, I'm Gina from the band Baroness.
>> And we are here today to check out the Pelt Fuzz.
The Pelt is our fuzz pedal that is silicone transistor based,
it's an all original circuit designed by Stan Cody and
it falls into the family of silicone fuzzes versus germanium fuzzes.
You can get a wide range of fuzz sounds, anywhere from classic smooth fuzz tones,
all the way up to a modern, zippery, Velcro-y, kind of splattery fuzz sound.
>> It's got your familiar controls of level, tone and fuzz but we added a bloom
control that affects basically the texture and attack of the fuzz.
And a mid-range contour which lets you carve out or
boost mid-range frequencies and a thickness control that adds to the low
end if you're feeling like you're missing that little low end rumble.
It's got your anodized aluminum enclosure, backlit LED knobs and
the Fender amp jewel LED, so it has a classic Fender look on your pedal board.
And then we've got the magnetic latching battery door on the front so
that way you can swap batteries in and out with ease.
What would you use these for in your play?
>> We use fuzz pedals a lot, typically for
a live show I like keeping the fuzz over as a boost for a solo and
not even necessarily a volume boost but more just a nice tonal shift so you got
a little variation when you go into like a lead part or something like that.
There are so many parameters on this that you can go through and
really dian in exactly what you're looking for which is totally awesome.
>> Something else that it's really nice about this pedal too is typically with
silicon transistor based fuzz pedals, you don't have the ability to roll your volume
back and clean up the fuzz a little bit.
But with the fuzz cranked on this,
you could roll your volume back on the guitar and the pedal will respond
in a different way than it would if your volume was all the way up.
So it'll clean up, it'll give you kind of a smaller overdriven amp sound and
then when you roll your volume back up,
you definitely get that fully saturated fuzz sound.
>> Yeah, it's cool how much control you have over this pedal just from
the controls on your guitar, it makes it real easy to find
all that many more tones with just the one pedal.
>> Yeah, so let's play through it and check it out so the clean sound is this.
>> Yeah. >> American Pro Jazz Master through a,
that's 65 reissue Princeton.
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So we've started with the bloom and more of the hard end of the spectrum and
swept it back to the softer end so you can feel the attack kind of level out and
smoothen out as you go backwards.
I'll go the other way with it this time, and I'll turn the fuzz up, so
you have a little bit more saturation, and you can feel how hat affects the attack
of the note, and how you get that squishy, Velcro-y sound.
>> Yeah. [MUSIC] We've got the fuzz cranked,
the bloom is closer to the hard end of things.
We'll start with the mid range contour flat, and then I'll pull the mid range out
of it, and you can feel the difference in textures, and how that impacts the plank.
>> Cool.
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Thanks for checking out The Pelt Fuzz with us, and stay tuned for more videos.
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