Make no mistake this is not a clone of an old design that duplicates the original faults and shortcomings.  I have used the same basic transistor configuration but with several new innovations applied to the very basic circuit that was used then.  We employ a careful selection procedure for the two PNP germanium transistors and the pc card also has a pre-set to optimise the circuit for varying operational temperatures.  The new Classic-X is a very Low Noise high gain design, stable, free from radio and other electronic interference that cause so much trouble.

It has a greatly increased output level that enables it to overdrive the front end of any amp as hard as you want with the Drive set to minimum distortion in volume boosting mode.  Turn up the Gain or Drive control and produce some of the deepest and tight low-end fuzz you have ever heard with the top end staying sweet encouraging soaring string bends and wild solos.  The Fatness Control has been carefully developed to produce a wide range of well-rounded musical tone colours.

The unit really comes into it's own during live performance situations as it cleans up superbly well using the guitar volume control and maintains the guitars original tone as the signal decays from wild distortion to original guitar tone.  This unit can be effectively controlled from the guitar making life a great deal easier for the player who likes to change tone effortlessly.

Because the circuit senses and uses electronic information directly from the guitar's pickups to control it's own operational parameters it is recommended to use the Classic-X 1st in the signal processing chain to take full advantage of this internal feed forward feature.  It is this particular feature of the Classic-X that helps to make it quite different from early fuzz pedals and makes the unit respond very well to each individual players touch, style and playing technique.

Five minutes playing with the Classic-X Fuzz will convince anyone this is not just a re-hashed design but genuinely innovative with some new tone colours.  Also when using the buffered outputs you have a package that interfaces perfectly in modern digital recording situations.

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