Octafuzz OF-2
Sometime in the mid 1970's someone brought a funny looking white Octave-Up/Fuzz pedal into the Tycobrahe Sound Company in Hermosa Beach, CA. This broken "Octavio," as it was named, reportedly once belonged to one James Marshall Hendrix. They fixed it, and it sounded so funky that they decided to put it on the market as the Tycobrahe Octavia.
Thanks to its use by Stevie Ray Vaughan and a few others, it has become the most sought after and expensive Octave-up pedal for effects junkies ever made, fetching well over $2500 in mint condition, if you can find one. I have a few of 'em, and have studied & repaired dozens...unless you have too, you have no business making clones of them, in my opinion;) In the late 80's Michael Fuller was a twenty-something year old Session Guitarist/Guitar Teacher growing weary of traveling around the country buying and selling these musical treasures.
It was then that he got the idea to start making recreations of classic pedals at a fraction of the original's price, with more features and built much more reliably..."boutique effects pedals" were born at that moment. His little company, dubbed "Fulltone" started with a remake of the '60's Fuzz Face and moved on from there.
For the next product, Michael decided to be the first one to make & sell an EXACT reproduction of the Tycobrahe Octavia which he promptly named the Fulltone Octafuzz. Being a bit anal, Michael went as far as having the transformer analyzed and copied to - the - T, even using the exact same brand of transistors as the original, something he still does to this day. Sometime in the early 2000's he devised a mod that cut out the Octave feature and made the Octafuzz into a powerful, dynamic FUZZ, something that the other Tycobrahe - clone makers immediately borrowed from me.
By switching the toggle to “Fuzz” your pedal pulls double duty as a bad-assed, compressed, Hea vy Fuzz that cleans up pretty well when you back off on the guitar's Volume Knob. He made & sold a total of 4168 (consecutive serial numbered) large box Octafuzz pedals over the past 20 years, then decided to cut the size almost in half, which resulted in what you have purchased today...the Octafuzz OF-2.
The same great Octafuzz now fits in the palm of your hand, and much easier on your crowded pedalboard!
- Octave Fuzz pedal
- Exact clone of the Tycobrahe Octavia
- Octa / Fuzz switch for cutting out the
- Octave circuit – for the nastiest most distorted Fuzz
- 100% hand-built in the USA
- Powered by 9V DC PSU
