Description

Here we have a pre owned Valco Bloodbuzz fuzz and drive pedal.  Made in Canada. A nod to the Lovetone Cheese Source pedal.   This pedal is a lot of fun to play through. The fuzz is gnarly and the drive is gritty.  Blend them together and you get some seriously awesome tones.  Its old school and big but that’s what’s cool about it.   Tons of tweak ability on both sides.  You can run the pedal as one unit or patch in to each side if you want.  Powered by a 9v battery or 9v dc negative tip adapter (not included)  The pedal is in very good condition.  There are some light surface marks and scuffs but nothing major.  There is a piece of velcro on the bottom.  Overall it is in great shape.   Thanks for looking and happy buying!

From Valco site….

THE FUZZ SECTION

Along with the Fuzz, Tone and Volume controls, a 4-Way Voice Switch enables the BloodBuzz to cover a huge array of fuzz textures. Although most famous for the gnarly/gated sound of Voice 3, the other voices offer their own unique and highly-usable fuzz tones too.

Experimentation with the volume and tone controls on your instrument will reveal the BloodBuzz is highly sensitive to the slightest change. Not only does the fuzz clean up quickly, it contains some of its sweetest tones with your volume between 2 and 6.

CONTROLS
FUZZ – Controls the amount of Fuzz.
TONE – Controls the tonal voicing. Tone is modified by the 4‐position rotary switch, bypassed completely when Voice is set to OFF.
LEVEL – Controls the overall output volume of the BloodBuzz Fuzz section. Increased output headroom so you’ll never go unheard!

VOICE SELECTOR
OFF- ‘Tone Bypass’. Acts as a ‘2 Knob’ fuzz, using FUZZ and LEVEL controls only.
1 – ‘Mid Scoop’. Introduces a 1Khz EQ dip, giving a ‘Muff’ style fuzz.
2 – ‘3 Knob Mode’. A more neutral EQ curve with increased mid focus. Great for both rhythm and lead fuzz tones.
3 – ‘Gated’. Using the same EQ circuit as Voice 2, Voice 3 configures the fuzz section to enter deep bias saturation with the introduction of an extra input drive stage. The more you drive, the more gnarly and gated the sound becomes. The classic Cheese sound. 

THE DRIVE SECTION

The BloodBuzz Drive works from being an ultra-transparent boost/OD through to a full saturation singing OD/Distortion, with some of the most useful tone-shaping options you will find on ANY Overdrive pedal.

The ‘secret sauce’ in the DRIVE section is in the VOICE controls in conjunction with the TONE control. Between them it is possible to sculpt your tone however you need to… clean up Humbuckers, fatten up Single-Coils, clean boost, full drive, however you want it, it’s there. It also interacts with the FUZZ section like a 60s psych dream, allowing you to create the sounds you hear.

CONTROLS
DRIVE: Adjusts the amount of input gain (boost) before the overdrive and tone sections.
TONE: Adjusts the audio tone, with clockwise being more “trebly”. Tone effect is modified by the four position rotary switch. In Voice 2 and 3 modes, bass frequencies are reduced as the tone control is turned clockwise.
LEVEL: Adjusts the output level of the drive section from zero to full.

VOICE SELECTOR
OFF- ‘Tone Bypass’. DRIVE and LEVEL controls only.
1 – Introduces the TONE circuit
2 – As Voice 1 with the introduction of a Shelving EQ to roll off bass end.
3 – As Voice 2 with a higher frequency shift to increase the bass roll off. 

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