JDM Pedals "Hot Plate" Tonebender Mk3 Style Germanium Fuzz w/ Mid Boost

• Please Note! ** For the first half of 2024, we are shipping from the USA. We'll be back in Berlin come fall, so take advantage of shorter ship times till then!
• This pedal now standard with Side Jacks - If you prefer top jacks, let us know, we can do that for you- the enclosure just needs to be 125B (slightly larger) to fit top jacks.
  

The Tonebender Legacy

The Tonebender MK3 is fuzz royalty. Essential to the guitar sound of 70’s UK Glam, it’s also the source of some of Jimmy Page’s iconic guitar tones, offers all the sustain and harmonic feedback you can dream of for guitar-driven rock styles, and has a texture that makes Stoner rock guitar amps exhale sweet clouds of smoke. Less finnicky than a Fuzzface, it sounds great with humbuckers or single coils, and has a smooth response all across your guitar’s range, from chunky, brash lows to sustaining high notes.

Electric Glam Love Power!

We’ve given the Tonebender Mk3 circuit our own treatment, and dug into our stash of vintage Germanium to serve up our own version of this iconic fuzz. The JDM Elektrika does those MK1 tones with our added “Gate and “Tone” controls, and the “Vindicator” cover the brash, thick MK2 territory. The Mk3 took a while to find the right formula, and over time turned into “that pedal that always stuck to the test board”. It sounded great at rehearsals and always fit in the mix when recording. The “Aha!” moment came when we spliced in a passive mid bump circuit and that “little extra something” was suddenly there and working really well.

So, in our usual style, the JDM Pedals “Hot Plate” Fuzz is a true-to-vintage Tonebender MKIII, but with a lil' sumpin extra. The passive mid-bump switch enhances mids when you’re fighting traffic against drums, keys, and vocals competing for midrange space. Or just to thicken the tone up because you can.

YOU. NEED.

Yes, you do need this pedal. It's a fuzz tone that’s a kinda like a distortion, but has that untamed fuzz feel, backing off on the gain serves up unrivaled overdrive style tones. The tone knob ranges from truly skanky early 60’s buzzfuzz to Led Zep thickness, and the mid control punches it up to a cool other place.

This baby is powered by either a standard 9v block battery, or +9vDC center negative power supply (aka "Boss Style PSU"). As this is a vintage-true Fuzz, and usually needs -9v power, we have fitted it with an analog voltage inverter so you can daisy chain this with modern pedals.

Drop a line if you have any questions or features you’d like to see! We also do custom enclosures if (GASP!) you don’t dig purple.

best regards

joe / jdm pedals