The Cast Iron Stonk Box is a collaboration between KGR Harmony in Oshu, Japan and Knobhead PDX. We’ve known about Keijiro’s cast iron pedals for a while… He has a fantastic pedal line that utilize hand forged iron enclosures (in a foundry that also creates traditional cast iron tetsubin te..
NERD ALERT
When designing the temperature controlled fuzz, we tried some unusual approaches. One false start utilized a voltage controlled error correction circuit to bias a single germanium transistor. It ultimately didn’t work for the fuzz, which is comically sensitive to transistor ..
For our ten year anniversary, we are unveiling a very special project we are calling the Benmaster. The 2nd amp I ever built was a clone of the 5E7 Fender Bandmaster, a semi-mythical model from the tweed era featuring 3 10” speakers. My clone was true point to point inside an old organ c..
THE BASICS
The Germanium Fuzz is a fuzz pedal. The knobs change the sounds. IMPORTANT: after plugging it into power (9vdc
only), it will take 2-3 minutes on average to sound correct. Good time to tune your guitar and grab a beverage. The
color of the LED indicator light might chang..
THE BASICS The Stonk Box is our second Automatic Thermally Bias fuzz pedal, so after plugging it into power (9vdc only), it will take 2-3 minutes on average to sound correct. The color of the LED indicator light might change. Don’t turn the internal trimmer. THAT’S IT. Read on if you would..
THE BASICS
The Germanium Fuzz is a fuzz pedal. The knobs change the sounds. IMPORTANT: after plugging it into power (9vdc
only), it will take 2-3 minutes on average to sound correct. Good time to tune your guitar and grab a beverage. The
color of the LED indicator light might change. D..
This pedal is based on Benson's now famous amp-in-a-box Preamp pedal with one important tweak: the replacement of the first FET transistor with a germanium gain stage - stolen from our servo-biased Germanium Boost pedal which is ideal as a versatile gain stage since it reliably imparts a g..