LEGENDS OF FUZZ SERIES
When he’s not flooding YouTube with comical demos, stompbox history lessons and the occasional musical theatre production, JHS boss Josh Scott (see p58) does indeed still design effects pedals. The Legends Of Fuzz Series comprises four of them – and they’re something of a departure for the brand.
Giving more than just a nod to the most important pedals in the evolution of filth, this is a quartet of retro revivals built with varying degrees of historical accuracy, all based on units in Josh’s own collection: a 1969 Arbiter Fuzz Face; a 1972 Univox Super-Fuzz; a 1973 Sola Sound Tone Bender MkIII; and an ultra-rare 1992 Sovtek Red Army Overdrive, one of the very first Russian-made Big Muffs.
Rather than styling each of the
