In a previous entry into this “wondrous”, if not “ponderous” blogspace, I alluded to the fact that an industrious EE/designer could make a nice farthing or two just creating distortion pedals for ...

Fuzz testing, or fuzzing, is a way to automatically test applications. It can find errors from memory leaks to buffer overflows. It has garnered interest around safety and security and can be a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Throughout the ’90s, the sounds of Daft Punk, Moby, BT, Paul Oakenfold and the Chemical Brothers carried me through adolescence in a blur of guitar squalls, ...

It’s hard to find a sound system worthy of this confessional love song cum shut-in manifesto It’s safe to say Regurgitator were in on the joke decades before the rest of us when they made I Like Your ...

It’s downy and barely even pigmented, but peach fuzz — those fine little hairs on the chin — drives me crazy. Getting rid of it is tricky, because the usual hair-removal channels — both waxing and ...

The funny thing about octave fuzz is that it is a quintessentially retro effect, having helped soundtrack the nascent boom of classic rock in the late 60s. And yet, somehow, it always sounds ...

Wax Heads. Credit: Patattie Games. Sometimes, this is simple. Our first customer stans this universe’s main pop girl, Mimi, who’s just released a new album. Using arrows to navigate around the shop, ...

North Carolina’s Dusky Electronics has announced the latest addition to its pedal line-up, the Hypatia overdrive/distortion/fuzz. Versatility is the name of the Hypatia’s game, with Dusky bigging up ...