Fulltone Mas Malo

Mas Malo

…one of Michael Fuller’s favorite Mexican restaurants in downtown Los Angeles. He likes the bold, spicy food, and he likes the name, which translates from Spanish to mean: ”More Bad.” It inspired this tiny, yet potent, and surprisingly versatile Distortion/Fuzz you now have before you.

Each pedal is fitted with three matched New Old Stock BC184C transistors allowing this pedal to do everything from Jimmy Page type crunch tones, Gilmour style singing leads, all the way to howling, compressed, infinite sustain feedback, even at low volume levels. And with just the right amount of midrange to sit perfectly in the track, or in the live mix.

On top of that, Mas Malo has a fairly high input impedance and extremely low output impedance along with true-bypass switching (with Millennium LED switching) to assure that it gets along with everything that comes before, and everything that goes after it.

The Knobs are V for Volume, D for Distortion, C for Color, and H for Heat. Volume & Distortion are self-explanatory, and the Color knob is a unique tone control panning from rich warm sounds all the way to Trebly Fuzztones. The Heat knob regulates the Bias of the first transistor in the circuit, which can really set up a domino effect, and the reason that this pedal can cover as much range as it does. This pedal truly is MORE BAD.

Main Features:
• Distortion/Fuzz effects pedal
• Huge tonal range from Jimmy Page type crunch tones to Gilmour style singing leads, all the way to howling, compressed, infinite sustain feedback, even at low volume levels
• Containing 3 x hand-picked New old Stock BC184C discrete transistors
• True Bypass Switching
• 100% hand-built in the USA
• Powered by 9-18 V DC PSU
(centre -, 2.1 mm, 8 mA current draw)