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    Michael Hudson

    Nov 15, 2019 3 minutes

    1 What was the first pedal you built and how did the design come about?

    “I started off building vintage Fuzz Face and Tone Bender-style circuits for my own use when I was playing in bands. This was in the early 2000s when you could pick up the [NOS] transistors on eBay more easily. After that, I built a hybrid of a Fuzz Face and an Italian [Vox] Tone Bender, and that turned into the first pedal I sold. Things grew steadily from there.”

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