Museum

This page is going to be dedicated to cool old and rare pedals, some of which are now regarded as museum pieces, hence the name of the page. I will update this from time to time so check back occasionally for some good quality pedal pr0n.

Shaftesbury Duo Fuzz

The original Shaftesbury Duo Fuzz as made by the Japanese Shin Ei company in the late 1960's early 70's and produced for the Rose Morris music shop in London and very rare these days.
This is all original, works perfectly and sounds fantastic. It has its original box too with customary hole. Other examples i have seen of these all had the hole in the box, this is because the box was a tad too shallow for the pedal and the switch would end up poking through the top.


This next descriptive bit I lifted from The Gigrig's website, Dan has a nice way of describing the sound of one of these:
What sets the Duo-Fuzz apart from any other fuzz pedal is how musical it sounds. What does that mean? Some of the fuzz circuits created way back when made your guitar sound like a buzz saw, which is fine but very harsh. The Duo-Fuzz has this amazing quality of actually working with the tone of your guitar enabling you to squeeze every nuance from your instrument. It's a sound that is so enjoyable you immediately stop over playing. The simplest blues lick played through this thing makes you sound like an axe toting deity. There is an emphasis on the upper harmonics, especially the first octave, so notes just jump out at you. I can honestly say I've never had so much fun with a fuzz pedal in my life. (Daniel Steinhardt)

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