3.6 X 1.5 X 1 inches, 0.60 lbs
Since
the fuzz effect was invented in the early sixties, guitar players have
gone to great lengths to achieve the perfect fuzz tone. Legends say that
Duane Allman placed his fuzz pedal in the freezer between sessions to
cool down the transistors, and that Roger Mayer meticulously modified
Hendrix’s Fuzz Faces beyond recognition in search of an elusive, magical
fuzz experience. Fortunately, even apart from these mythological
methods, there’s one trick that always works: use a dying battery.
Inherently simple devices like fuzz circuits are extremely sensitive to
the amount of voltage that they receive, thus any change in the voltage
from your power supply will cause drastically different tones.
Guitarists eventually caught on to this hack and began draining their
batteries to try and find the sweet spot for their fuzz pedal. A good
idea in theory, but who has time for that? Then, just a few years ago, a
certain unnamed guitarist reached out to me for a practical solution
for this technique– and the Volture was born.
The Volture is a
modern day device for your vintage fuzz circuitry. Simply place it in
between your power supply and your pedal, and you can precisely trim the
input voltage and perfectly replicate the tone of a dying battery. As
the song says, “Power is made by power being taken.”
Though we
developed it specifically for vintage fuzz circuits, the Volture will
work on any fully analog pedal. In fact, you might be surprised by the
trippy sounds you find lurking in your favorite overdrive or distortion.
THIS PEDAL REQUIRES STANDARD 9V DC NEGATIVE POWER, CONSUMES 12MA, AND MEASURES 3.6"X1.5"X1"