McSpunkle Gnomeratron VTF

In excellent working and cosmetic condition.

Manufacturer's description:

Oh, hi! I didn't see you there. Oh, this old thing? It's nothing, really. Just a fuzz pedal with 11 knobs, 9 switches, and painfully good looks.

On one side, there's the fuzz circuit. It's got the typical volume, gain, and tone controls plus a nifty gate control so you don't have to gouge your eyes out every time you turn the gain up. The fuzz has two cascaded clipping stages. The diode switches change the clipping diodes. There's also a switchable octave-up circuit. Yummy, splatty, filtery octave-up. The filter switch switches between scooped and flat tone controls. Did I mention it has a lot of gain? Because it has a lot of gain.

There's also a starve control on the back of the pedal that only affects the fuzz circuit. It can give you fun oscillations and arpeggiation. Google Chrome is telling me that "arpeggiation" isn't a word. Pffft.

Then there's the clean(ish) blend. This is basically a booster circuit running along side the fuzz. The tone control rolls off high end. It's not the lame way-too-clean clean blend you get in a lot of pedals. It actually mixes well with the fuzz. Bassists rejoice! No more "TWACK" coming through your fuzz!

Oh, those knobs and switches on the side? Well chillax, bro. I got this.

The knobs are gain controls. From top to bottom, they're: Clipping stage 1, stage 2, fuzz output, and clean(ish). Yup yup!

The switches, again from top to bottom, are clipping "type" switches for each of the gain controls-- one mode is darker and smoother than the other--, an oscillation switch (interacts with the clipping stage gain controls-- and basically everything related to the clipping stages), and a switch to dirty up the clean blend. Parallel distortions!

The sides of the enclosures are sanded. With a belt sander. It looks brushed and has a neat texture to it.

The graphics are covered in a soy-based resin. It's impossible to eliminate petroleum products completely in something like this-- but I do what I can!