EarthQuaker Devices Erupter - Ultimate Fuzz Tone

The Erupter is the result of over two years' worth of tone-chasing, tweaking, and experimentation in search of what EarthQuaker president and product designer Jamie Stillman calls "the ultimate classic fuzz tone . . . with a big low end, but not too mushy, a biting top end without being too harsh, and just enough output to politely send a tube amp over the top". In developing the Erupter, Stillman used every trick he ever learned to craft a fuzz device that sounds good with any pickup type anywhere in the effects chain, even before a wah pedal, and without any impedance mismatching. To this end, the Erupter uses a buffered input section, transformer-based pickup simulation, new production 5% ½ watt carbon composition resistors, metallized polyester film capacitors, Sprague and BC electrolytic capacitors, and low-gain, hand-matched NOS silicon transistors to deliver a "well-rounded and defined fuzz tone with just enough pummeling intensity."

• Fuzz effects pedal
• silicon transistor circuit
• overloaded-yet-refined full-force fuzz with crushing lows and smooth top end
• touch-responsive and reacts to changes in guitar volume and tone controls
• placeable anywhere in the signal chain
• true bypass
• control for Bias
• bypass footswitch
• silent relay-based soft touch switching
• status LED
• metal housing
• top-mounted 6.3 mm mono IN/OUT jacks
• power supply via 9V battery or optional 9V DC adapter 2.1 mm x 5.5 mm barrel plug, polarity (-) center
• current draw 3 mA
• dimensions (D x W x H) 117 mm x 64 mm x 57 mm
• weight 260 g
• hand made in USA