For sale at…

I LOVE small independent music shops. The staff are generally more knowledgeable and helpful and mostly they carry an equally good range of product compared to the big boys on the block. They are generally no more expensive, and often can be cheaper. They genuinely want to sell you the best product for you, your playing style and existing equipment, because they want you to come back, unlike some places … (rant over)

The Mozztronics range of guitar and bass effects pedals are now available for sale at the most excellent Australian online store Peerless music (who ship all over the world), as well as retail stores Pony Music in Hallam (Melbourne), Found Sound in Brunswick East (Melbourne), Guitar Garage in Rose Bay (Sydney), The Bass Centre in South Melbourne, Bass Workshop in Hughesdale (Melbourne), Music At Noosa in Queensland, Black Arrow Guitars in Adelaide, DW Music in Canberra, and at All-Music is Albury.

www.peerlessmusic.com.au

www.ponymusic.com.au

www.dwmusic.com.au/

www.basscentre.com.au/

www.bassworkshop.com.au/

www.musicatnoosa.com

www.allmusicdirect.com.au

www.blackarrowguitars.com.au

www.guitargarage.com.au

www.foundsound.com.au/

http://www.yeppoonmusic.com.au/

Pedals are in stock at all shops.

Steve and Peg run Peerless Music. They stock a huge range of pedals, including some absolutely world beating product from Australia, they ship everywhere.

Evan is the main guy at Pony Music in Hallam which is in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Despite being a drummer (!) he is extremely knowledgeable and will recommend the best product for you to get the sound you want. There is an awesome recording studio there as well as several rehearsal rooms with very nice room pa systems.

DW music are in Canberra, and stock a huge range of quality gear. Mozztronics is honoured to be stocked in such esteemed company. Ask James to show you the Mozztronics pedals they have in stock. He might even let you “Turn it up Loud”.

Gentle Folk (and headbangers) of Sydney Town you can now try out Mozztronics pedals at Guitar Garage in Rose Bay. Guitar Garage started in 2002 and is run by Brent who has been there and done that in retail, as a guitar tech for touring bands, and music production. Brent is a man after my own heart, his mantra is “affordable hand selected guitars that play excellent at a reasonable price”. From beginners to pro’s Brent will give you honest advice and wont try to sell you something you don’t need.

If you’re in, or visiting Melbourne, and you’re responsible for the bottom end, you need to check out the Bass Centre in South Melbourne. Guy Palmer & the team will look after whatever it is you require, from picks to strings, pedals to amps, and of course bass guitars of every sort. Mozztronics bass pedals are in stock and ready to be “turned up loud” to rattle some windows and shake some walls.

Pop in and say hi to Jeff and the team at Music At Noosa. A fantastic shop full of everything you could possibly need and servicing the sunshine coast for over 16 years. Worth the drive up from Brisbane.

Drew & Heejoo run bass workshop in Hughesdale (near Chadstone) in Victoria. They carry a great and ever-changing range of basses, including some locally hand crafted beauties. Check out the Polaris basses which are handcrafted in Melbourne & the newer ones feature a Mozztronics onboard preamp designed specifically for Polaris. Pop out the back & visit the “Entwhistle Room” a wonderful, yet eerily spooky experience.

Ian and Brenda run the family business All-Music in Albury NSW catering for the music gear needs of a wide area around their shop. They have everything from student orchestral instruments to high end professional gear. All the staff are very knowledgeable and helpful, and genuinely want to help you get that “tone” thats in your head, just waiting to come out.

Drop in & say hi to Lewis & Thom at Found Sound in Brunswick East (Melbourne). You will find an ever changing selection of magnificent second hand gear along with a huge selection of pedals, including mine. Be warned though, with an impressive range of gear, serious gear lust may ensue.

Tim runs the brand new shop Yeppoon Music, just a stones throw from Rockhampton. A good selection of Mozztronics pedals is currently on its way to be there in time for the grand opening of Yeppoon Music.
Tim has years of experience in music shops and will give you sage advice on what will best suit your needs.

CIRCUIT BOARDS

No, i dont sell my bare boards with a kit of parts and instructions for assembly.
BUT, I have been so happy with the people I get my boards from that I thought I would mention it here. I use pcbway.com for all my boards. Fantastic service and pricing. You need to be able to supply drill files, gerber and aperture files from your pcb software (you cant just send them a pcb file) so you will need suitable software. I use an old version of Protel that i run in a Virtualbox window with windows XP running inside, but there are a lot of free pcb design software packages out there, I haven’t tried them so i cant recommend any….
Pcbway use proper FR4 board material, standard is single sided or double sided boards, (plated through on double sided) with solder resist in various colours and screenprinting component overlay in various colours on one or two sides, with routing if needed. They do multilayer as well, but i just get double sided as that is perfectly adequate for my needs.
Give them a go, i recommend them.

IF YOU NEED TUBES

I would also like to highly recommend my tube supplier. Neil at thevalvestore.com.au
Neil is very knowledgeable and helpful, and carries a great range of new and old stock tubes at very reasonable prices. Neil is in Mount Waverley in Melbourne. Check out his website if you need tubes, including hard to get tubes. Neil has digital tube testers and can supply matched sets as well as doing overnight burn ins.

Neil doesn’t stock my pedals, but if you need tubes, he’s the guy to see !

TUBE AMPS MADE IN AUSTRALIA

Reuben at Brookfield Tube Audio makes a range of hand-built tube amps. Very nice sounding gear. Based on the marshall 18W and classic Vox circuits. No compromise on quality as Reuben uses only the best parts in his amps. Recently Ash Naylor has been using a Brookfield “Bohemian” live on stage. Yeah !

Check them out at www.brookfieldtubeaudio.com.au

TD-900 HV Tube Drive 4100 Boost

One of our favourite amps is the 900 British amp, model 4100.
This is a 2 channel beast of an amp, with a glorious hi gain channel, which on the amp is called the “Boost” channel.
We took the whole Boost channel preamp circuit from the amp and fitted it inside a pedal. We use an actual 12AX7 tube inside just as the amp does, but we run that tube at a higher gain than the amp does and we run the tube at proper amp high voltage. We’ve gone old school here, we use circuits that were used to generate high voltage in old time television sets to generate the high voltage for the tube in this pedal.

This pedal does medium to high drive and is great for medium to heavy crunch and uber gain. Turn up the gain and pinch harmonics fly off the fret board. Turn the output volume up to slam the front end of your amp and hear it sing.

This pedal responds like an amplifier would, roll the guitar volume back and the pedal responds, dig in hard on the strings and the pedal responds. We here at Mozztronics like to think of this pedal as an extension of your amplifier.

GAIN controls the amount of overdrive from a medium crunch to a searing screaming overdrive, BASS, MID and TREBLE are the 3 knob tone stack as found in the actual 4100 amp, and VOLUME adjusts the overall output volume of the pedal. There is a lot of output available here, Start with output volume at 9 o’clock.

As with our other Tube Drive pedals (TD-1 and TD-2) we power this pedal from an external 15VAC to 16VAC supply.

Mozztronics uses the industry standard 2.1mm socket for the power supply connection. Power is from an external 15VAC 0.4A plugpack.

Email me at   mozztronics@hotmail.com for more information

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DD-2 DOA Drive

Want something a bit different to the diode clipping overdrives. The Mozztronics DOA Drive DD-2 is the answer. DOA stands for Discrete Op Amp (Not Dead On Arrival). We use jfets for the input of each of the two DOA’s inside. We hadn’t made a Discrete Op Amp overdrive before, and now we have.

The guitarist in my band uses a “blues” drive pedal, so i wanted to make him a better one. Looking at the circuit for the original pedal there seemed to be some “odd” choices made in the design of the circuit. So onto the breadboard i jumped. After much tweakage i ended up with the DD-2 DOA Drive. This is based on the classic circuit from the 1980’s and 1990’s, we added our own touches, to enhance versatility, while keeping the touch sensitivity and enhancing clarity.

GAIN controls the amount of dirt from the two DOA stages and goes from clean to heavy crunch while retaining some jangliness even at extreme gain settings.
BASS, MID and TREBLE are a classic 3 knob tone stack , and VOLUME adjusts the overall volume out of the pedal.

Turn the Mids and the Gain up, and classic Malcolm Young sounds are available. Turn Treble & Bass up, and Mids down, and you can get classic “Voxy” tones.

Plug in your acoustic guitar, the DD-2 brings a dull acoustic to life, turn up the gain and the DD-2 is perfect for slide, whether on a resonator or normal acoustic guitar.

This is great for a clean boost with an edge or crunchy dirty rhythm

Mozztronics uses the industry standard Boss style 2.1mm center negative 9V DC socket for the power supply connection.

Email me at   mozztronics@hotmail.com for more information

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Al Carr

Al was born in London, raised in Sydney, but these days calls Castlemaine home. As a singer songwriter, he traverses the gap between country and rock with ease. His music is a mixture of Alt Country & Australian Americana.

His first album in 2013 featured guest performances from Davey Lane (You Am I) and Louis Macklin (Jet)

He has just released his fourth album “the right dereliction” to great acclaim, and his first single “The Rose of Jericho” is a cracking good song, check it out.

Al credits his Mozztronics pedals for his guitar sound on his latest album and Al has just taken delivery of two more pedals, the AP1 acoustic guitar preamp (to get the wood back in the sterile piezo pickup) and a low gain drive DD1 Damo Drive (perfect for country rock).

www.alcarr.com.au

Turn them up loud Al !

BP-360 Bass Preamp

The BP-360 is based on the preamp circuit from a classic bass amp from the 1960’s (Acoustic 360 bass amp as used by Led Zeppelin, Jaco Pastorius & Larry Graham among others), we added our own touches, to enhance versatility, and included a DI out.
The actual Acoustic 360 amp had a built in fuzz, but there would have been too many controls to fit the whole amp circuit neatly inside a pedal, so we split the fuzz circuit off as a separate pedal with its own eq, the FZ-360. Combine the FZ-360 and BP-360 to get our version of this classic amp.

VOL is the master volume control.
We included the original preamp’s EQ to perfectly dial in the sound of your bass. BASS 30Hz. MID switchable 380Hz, 550Hz, 1.0kHz, 1.9kHz, 3.5kHz, TREBLE 4kHz
We included the preamps BRIGHT switch and we added a DI out with an Earth Lift switch, and an internal switch allowing you to select the function of the footswitch, BYPASS or MUTE.

While this circuit originally came from a bass amp, and while it is simply magnificent on bass, it sings on clean guitar direct to desk (funk anyone ?) and is superb on acoustic guitar adding a sparkle and jangle while making the sterile sounding piezo sound more natural . The 3 band EQ with semi-parametric mids lets you tone-sculpt your sound precisely.

Johnny G (monster upright player) from the band 19twenty send me this about the BP360.
“Now i have to say how great the 360 bass pre is – I’m so glad you’ve now got a preamp which can be overdriven !
I love to leave the volume at max, tweak the eq to taste then use the Gain control for more / less light compression, and overdrive if i want it. The natural sound of this preamp is very musical – beautiful punch low end (i used it to record a reggae-bass section recently and it was a treat in the studio) – and the highs are crisp and deadly accurate.
I love how the 360 bass pre is more dedicated to delivering the low end OOMPH and high snap. This pedal (modelled on the acoustic 360 amplifier) would be fantastic for players who consider themselves slap happy. The transients are clean and clear and the pre beautifully accentuates the bass’ low end punch and high attack without losing any of the bass’ natural characteristics.
I played the 360 bass pre with my upright (magnetic & piezo blended together) my 90’s japanese Ibanez BTB, 80’s musicman, Warwick Alien acoustic & a 60’s Fender P bass, it basically enhanced the best parts of each bass’ tonality without sounding “taken over” by the preamps tone, which can be the case with a LOT of preamps from other brands.”
Wow, thanks Johnny.

Mozztronics uses the industry standard Boss style 2.1mm center negative 9V DC socket for the power supply connection.

Email me at   mozztronics@hotmail.com for more information

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FZ-360 Fuzz

Want something a bit different to the diode clipping overdrives, benders & fuzz faces ?
The FZ360 is based on the fuzz circuit from a classic bass amp from the 1960’s (Acoustic 360 bass amp as used by Led Zeppelin, Jaco Pastorius & Larry Graham among others), we added our own touches, to enhance versatility, while keeping the touch sensitivity and enhancing clarity.

FUZZ controls the amount of dirt from the two fuzz stages and goes from fairly clean to very nasty while retaining some jangliness even at extreme fuzz settings.
BASS, MID and TREBLE are a classic 3 knob tone stack based on the circuit from the original Acoustic 360 amp, and VOLUME adjusts the overall volume out of the pedal.

While this fuzz circuit originally came from a bass amp, and while it rips and roars on bass, it sings, wails and shrieks on guitar. Turn the fuzz down low for classic early 70’s rock tones, or crank it for much more modern sounds. The 3 band EQ lets you tone-sculpt your sound precisely.

Johnny G (monster upright player) from the band 19twenty send me this about the FZ360.
“We’ve just boarded a flight back from a tour of New Zealand, and i have to tell you how much i LOVE the new bass pedals you just released!
The 360 Fuzz, man, this fuzz pedal is something else. I’m a fuzz addict and i don’t have another fuzz which behaves the way the 360 fuzz does. It took a minute to figure out how it operates, but once i got the knack for tweaking it’s many many sounds, i cant put it down. I can get big woolly muff style sounds with the Bass control, then dial in extra grindy grit with the Mid control and add extra sizzle with the Treble control – it’s a full buffet style fuzz that I’m now completely addicted to. I used this on our New Zealand trip for sections of our songs where i like to dabble with a synth-bass-esque type sound, paired with an old Boss OC-2. The 360 Fuzz was MAGIC in this combination.
The Gain has a great range too, i love a pedal that can get low gain fur to crazy high gain buzz saw tones.”
Wow, thanks Johnny. The eq in this pedal is from the original amp, but i tweaked the Mid control as the amp had an Ampeg style inductor based midrange. The amps tone stack was a standard fender style Bass & Treble with a fixed Mids setting. The eq on this pedal is a standard TMB style tone stack as found in many amps. As these are “cut” controls, start with eq on maximum & reduce each eq control to taste.

Mozztronics uses the industry standard Boss style 2.1mm center negative 9V DC socket for the power supply connection.

Email me at   mozztronics@hotmail.com for more information

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Switcher SW-1

Something a little different than your standard A-B box, the Mozztronics SW-1 Switcher.

3 inputs, 1 output, each channel has its own GAIN control & status led. Only one input is active at a time. The gain goes from off (anticlockwise) to x5 clockwise, allowing more than enough range for any input signal level, boost that low output strat up to the level of a hot humbucker with ease. There is also a electronically balanced direct out (DI) with aground lift switch.

Operation is simple and intuitive. Press a channel switch and that channel becomes active, press it again to mute that channel. If a channel is already on, pressing another channel switch selects that channel and mutes the other channels.

I made the first unit for Andrew Z, so he could run his guitar and wireless systems and balance volumes between all inputs.

Mozztronics uses the industry standard Boss style 2.1mm center negative 9V DC socket for the power supply connection.

Email me at   mozztronics@hotmail.com for more information

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Splitter SP-2

Something a little different than your standard A-B box, the Mozztronics SP-2 Splitter.

1 input, 2 outputs, each output has its own BOOST control & status led. Only one output is active at a time (and no, there is not enough room inside for a second switch for both outputs on). The controls are BOOST controls, so fully anticlockwise is unity gain and we can go up from there, up to 27dB of clean boost.

I made the first unit for my friend Jamie P, so he could run his two amp system. Channel 1 is for his rhythm amp, channel 2 is for his lead amp.

Mozztronics uses the industry standard Boss style 2.1mm center negative 9V DC socket for the power supply connection.

Email me at   mozztronics@hotmail.com for more information

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Filter Preamp FP2

I was asked recently by my captive studio sound engineer to make him this pedal, as sometimes all you need for EQ is a low pass filter, and a high pass filter. This is the baby brother of my FP-1 Filter Preamp pedal. It is the same as the FP-1 but without the parametric mids control. The Mozztronics FP-2 Filter Preamp effects pedal is what we came up with.

GAIN is the overall gain, we allowed for gain reduction, and also gain boost.

HPF is a high pass filter, variable from 18Hz to 400Hz. Start with this fully anticlockwise and turn it up until you reduce the problem frequencies. LPF is a low pass filter, variable from 1kHz to 18kHz. Start with this fully clockwise and turn it down until you reduce the problem frequencies.

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Filter Preamp FP-1

I was asked recently by my captive studio sound engineer to make him this pedal, as sometimes all you need for EQ is a low pass filter, a high pass filter and a parametric MID control. The Mozztronics FP-1 Filter Preamp effects pedal is what we came up with.

GAIN is the overall gain, we allowed for gain reduction, especially if you are boosting MIDS, and gain boost if you are cutting a problematic MID frequency.

HPF is a high pass filter, variable from 18Hz to 400Hz. Start with this fully anticlockwise and turn it up until you reduce the problem frequencies. LPF is a low pass filter, variable from 1kHz to 18kHz. Start with this fully clockwise and turn it down until you reduce the problem frequencies.

We included a fully parametric MID control for your aural pleasure. MID is a cut / boost eq control (flat is centre), FREQ adjusts the mid frequency from 150Hz to 4kHz, and Q is the width of the filter ranging from a Q of 0.5 to a Q of 5. In general if you are boosting mids, set Q low, and if you are cutting mids, set Q high so the mids then act like a notch filter. The golden rule is BOOST wide, CUT narrow.

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Bass Overdrive BOD-2

Most guitar overdrive pedals tailor the sound before and after the clipping stage. This results in a loss of bottom end, as too much bass in an overdriven sound can make the sound “flabby”.

We thought it was time to update our BOD1 Bass Overdrive pedal. This is the Mozztronics update on a pedal especially for bass players. Our design takes the signal from the bass guitar and splits it. One path goes straight to the output via the DRY volume control, the other path goes through a high pass filter (to remove the flab from the overdrive) and then to a double clipping stage so as the signal level increases each different clipping stage contributes accordingly. This signal then goes to the switchable EQ circuitry and to the WET volume control. By changing the levels of DRY and WET you can easily vary the balance between the two signals. By keeping the original signal, we retain a warm bottom end and we add in as much dirt up top as is desired.

GAIN controls the amount of overdrive from barely on to full on shred, DRY controls the amount of normal signal from the bass guitar, WET adjusts the amount of overdriven signal, FREQ is a 5 way switch to set the frequency of the MID control (380 Hz-550Hz-1.2kHz-1.6kHz-3.5kHz), MID adjusts the midrange volume, and TREBLE adjusts the treble. There is a switch to turn the EQ on and off, and an earth lift switch for the electronically balanced XLR DI output.
The EQ only operates on the WET (dirty) signal, the clean signal is untouched by the EQ, giving you the sound of your bass, and adding dirt on top.

Mozztronics uses the industry standard Boss style 2.1mm center negative 9V DC socket for the power supply connection.

Email me at   mozztronics@hotmail.com for more information

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ToneWrack TW-1

There are a few iconic valve guitar amps that we at Mozztronics adore. Apart from the british 800 series amps, a “59” model, the May amp, the Townshend amp, and an amp named after a fruit, amongst others, and we also greatly like a boutique amp made in the USA. So we have done our pedal version of this amp. We have named this pedal the “ToneWrack” in honour of its parentage. This pedal is not a dirt pedal as such, it’s our emulation of this classic amps.

To do full justice to the original amp, and to get the maximum in tone versatility we included the full 3 knob tone stack in this pedal. A single tone control wasn’t going to cut it with this pedal.

GAIN controls the amount of gain from the first stage, BASS, MID and TREBLE are the classic 3 knob tone stack as found in the original amp. VOLUME adjusts the overall volume out of the pedal.

As with the amplifier this pedal replicates, at lower gain settings, you get the sparkle these amps are known and loved for. Turn the gain up for added rawkus-ness.

Many people have asked me, Moz, why did you choose these amps to make pedal versions of. Each of these amps is (in my view) a classic amp. Each of these amps has a totally different tone stack design. Each of these amps, while having a push pull power stage uses different phase inverters and power tubes. The ’72 Orange has a bandaxall tone stack, cathodyne phase inverter & EL34 tubes, the Bassman has a fender tone stack, long tail pair phase inverter & 6L6 tubes, the Hiwatt has a hiwatt tone stack, long tail pair phase inverter & EL34 tubes, and the AC30 has a Vox tone stack, long tail pair phase inverter & EL84 tubes. Each tone stack, phase inverter and tube type will give a different sound, breakup differently and respond to playing style differently.

Mozztronics uses the industry standard Boss style 2.1mm center negative 9V DC socket for the power supply connection.

Email me at   mozztronics@hotmail.com for pricing and Paypal information

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Peter “Blackie” Black

Oh Yeah, Peter “Blackie” Black from the Australian band “The Hard Ons” with my VB1 vibrato / tremolo pedal.

Formed back in 1982, The Hard Ons released 8 albums, and had 17 consecutive number 1 hits on the alternative charts in their first 12 years. They were the most commercially successful independent band in Australia with over 250k record sales.
They have been described as “fused punk tempos, hardcore attitude, heavy metal riffs and surfpop melodies moulded into a seamless frenetic ball of energy”

Peter mainly uses a HM2 and a Marshall. He used an HM2 as nobody back then really got into them, and everyone else was using Rats, so the HM2 was an obvious choice. You know life is good, when your wall of Marshalls is taller than you !

After a brief hiatus, they got back together in 1997. These days You Am I’s frontman, bon-vivant & man about town Tim Rogers has joined as the main vocalist.

Tim Rogers has used Mozztronics pedals for several years now, and he has oft said to Peter “hey man, you should try these orange coloured pedals, they’re pretty fine” and eventually Peter had the need for a tremolo pedal. Peter tried it & liked it.

The Hard Ons have a new album out “Ripper 23” and will be touring again soon. If you get the chance to see them live, you wont be disappointed.

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Julz Parker

Julz is one half of the Dynamic Duo that is the critically acclaimed band “Hussy Hicks”. Julz plays electric and acoustic guitar and sings, her partner in crime is Leesa Gentz who’s powerhouse soul vocals have to be heard to be believed.

These girls have been touring regularly for over 10 years around Australia and Europe playing the biggest blues and roots festivals.

Maton Guitars say this about Hussy Hicks
“Known for their emotive lyricism, energetic live shows and fiery, frenetic instrumentation, it’s no surprise Hussy Hicks have staying power. From Gold Coast Artist of the Year and Album of the Year wins to Queensland Music Award and Golden Guitar nominations, their critical accolades extend even further, with guitarist Parker being touted by Australian legend, Phil Emmanuel as ‘Australia’s top female guitar player’ and voted fifth in Bluesfest’s Guitar Hero fan poll, among Santana and BB King. 

Signed to her first record label at just 16 years old, Leesa is excited to be moving into the next phase of Hussy Hicks, welcoming new drummer, Ali Foster, making the band an all-female force with long-time bassist, Tracy Bassy in the mix. Producing and engineering all of their new music themselves, Hussy Hicks are proving positive social change is happening right now with brand new track ‘Get Ready’ foreseeing a future without sexism, racism, homophobia and xenophobia,but most importantly, without fear”.

Julz has quite a bit of Mozztronics gear, both on her pedal board and in their home studio. Their studio was flooded (to over the top of the roof line) in the recent Lismore floods, and Julz sent back the VP1 rack valve guitar preamp and CO3 rack optical compressor (which was found 100m away halfway up a tree after the floodwaters receded), i disassembled them, cleaned all the mud and dirt out, replaced all the unsealed parts and got them working again, then back in the post for the rebuilding of their studio.

I was honoured to have Julz and Leesa drop by the Mozztronics cave the other day while they are touring in my home state, to try some new gear. Julz went away with my RA1 reamp receiver for her studio, TM1 tonemeister pedal and CO2 pedal optical compressor for her pedal board. Julz also recently got a HGF1 high gain fuzz

If you have never heard these girls, check them out online in the usual places, go see them live (as they are absolutely fantastic)

https://www.hussyhicks.com

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High Gain Fuzz HGF-1

Want something a bit different to the diode clipping overdrives. The Mozztronics HGF-1 High Gain Fuzz is the answer.

We here at Mozztronics have been inspired by ye olden days pedals of yore, especially the benders and muff pedals. We looked at all of these before setting out to do our own version. We love how a muff sounds, and the big mid scoop sounds great when you are listening to an instrument on its own, but stick that sound in a band mix and it just gets lost. That will not do. We also wanted to make a single pedal that worked equally well on both guitar and bass without loss or flabbiness on the bottom end. We wanted it to be an angry pedal but still with a smoothness of early “Gilmour” tones.

This is the end result of our endeavours, based on classic Fuzz circuits from the 1960’s and 1970’s, we added our own touches, to enhance versatility, while keeping the touch sensitivity and enhancing clarity

But we know you want more, so we added a switch to take the fuzz from tight and compressed to a more open sound while retaining the dirt, and a two band eq, not just a tone control. We use ultra high gain Silicon transistors for your aural pleasure. We also enhanced the bottom end response (while still keeping it tight and not flubby) to make it usable for those responsible for the low end in a band.

FUZZ controls the amount of dirt from medium gain to very nasty & gnarly tones, TRE controls the amount of treble in the output, BASS controls the amount of bass in the output, and VOL adjusts the overall volume out of the pedal.
We added a TIGHT switch to go between a tighter and a more open sound.

This is great for crunchy dirty rhythm and soaring lead tones, especially when the FUZZ control is turned up high.

Why is there an exploding head cartoon on this pedal I hear you ask, well, when we at Mozztronics were prototyping this pedal, it ripped, roared and sang with so much gnarly fuzziness it blew our minds.

Johnny from the band 19twenty tried out the HGF1 on his upright bass on their recent tour of WA, Here is what Johnny said:
“Hey Andrew!
So we landed in Sydney tonight, after a full weekend of Perth club and festival gigs. What a ripper of a time!
I thought I’d let you know that the Mozztronics High Gain Fuzz made this weekend an absolute TREAT for us, and for the audiences!!
It’s everything a bass-player looks for in a fuzz pedal — if my Sovtek Tall Font Russian and Boss Hyper-Fuzz had a baby, this would be the little gremlin!
The top-end fizzy-fuzzy goodness is right on point AND the low-end is still all there (without getting muddy!!).
How in the world have you accomplished this?!?!
When I dialed back the gain I got Stevie Wonder type synth tones, but my fave setting is with gain, bass & treble CRANKED and volume at 12:00. This CAN. NOT. BE. BEAT!!
All night, all I wanted to do was smash out the Muse riff from Hysteria, but alas I’m not a member of a Muse cover band…
If I were sitting, I’d give this pedal a standing ovation – what a ripping fuzz – I can’t wait to melt some faces at Byron Bay Bluesfest with this thing “

Wow, Thanks Johnny, i dont have to tell you to turn it up loud, thats a given

Salv from Perth plays in several tribute bands in WA, one of which is “Mashing Potatoes”. The muff he uses to get Corgan tones means he often cant hear what he’s playing due to the huge savage mid scoop on a muff. Salv recently got my HGF1 high gain fuzz to use instead of his muff, here’s what he said about the HGF1

“Hello again Andrew As expected the HGF1 sounded amazing. I could hear every riff & my bandmates could hear the difference as well. Tried several setting combos & loved the fuzz, bass on full, treble at 2:00 & vol at 12:00 with switch on up. Gonna keep working with it as the shows continue etc. Thanks again for your incredible pedals got 14 now & just love them all!!!
Hearing the high gain fuzz on Saturday night was amazing. Our sound man noticed the difference right from the line check! I heard every riff throughout our set. Used the HGF1, TM1 & AC1 playing mostly Mellon collie material “

Thanks Salv

Mozztronics uses the industry standard Boss style 2.1mm center negative 9V DC socket for the power supply connection.

Email me at   mozztronics@hotmail.com for pricing and Paypal information

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Grace Barbe

Grace Barbé hails from the sunburnt Indian Ocean islands of the Seychelles, where a colourful history of slavery, pirates, coups d’etat and coconuts have produced a unique Kreol rhythm, language and culture.

Drawing from the diverse culture of the islands, Grace’s music fuses the tropical rhythms and dances of the slaves with psychedelic rock, afrobeat, reggae and pop.

In performance Grace’s trio conjures a bewilderingly huge sound – Barbé sings over her own complex polyrhythmic bass lines to Mauritian drummer Hardy Perrine’s authentic island grooves while guitarist Jamie Searle adds a dense layer of Afro-guitar sorcery.

Grace has been enticing audiences to get up and shake their coconuts since the release of her debut album Kreol Daughter in 2009, with appearances all over India, East Africa (Sauti za Busara Festival, Zanzibar) and the Indian Ocean (Sakifo Festival, La Reunion) as well as at Australia’s leading music festivals, including WOMADelaide, WOMAD New Zealand, Byron Bay Bluesfest and Woodford.

Amongst the numerous accolades under her belt are an ARIA nomination for the third LP FANM:WOMAN and 11 consecutive WAM awards for “Best World Act”.

Recently, Grace is playing Bass for The Cat Empire.

Grace has a CO2 optical compressor, and a BP6 bass preamp / di. Grace has never used a compressor before, and she commented on using the CO2 optical compressor “now i can hear every note”

If you get the chance, go and see Grace play live and get ready to shake your coconuts!

Welcome to the Mozztronics family Grace !

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Minnie Marks

(Blatantly ripped from Minnies website)….
“Minnie Marks is not just some blazingly electrified guitar playing freak of nature. She is also a rare and triple threat: Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Relentlessly gigging across the globe, equipped with an old Goldtop in her hands and a revolutionary Farmer Foot Drum at her feet; Marks consistently pushes musical limits with her mind-blowing, dynamic guitar wizardry and her insanely powerful voice, that roars out her truth through song as if her own life depended on it. And, if that’s not enough, simultaneously, creates bone marrow shaking grooves with spare limbs on her Foot Drum kit. Finally all three beasts are married together to forge a mammoth sized wall of sound.
From winning the world renowned ‘Bluesfest Busking Competition’ in 2011, to taking out the People’s Choice Award’ at both Blues At Bridgetown and Nannup Music Festival, plus earning the winning place of ‘Best Guitarist’ for the Open Arms Festival competition, Marks  is no stranger on the block.”

Minnie recently took possession of two Mozztronics pedals and a VP1 1U Rack Valve Guitar Preamp for her studio. I know these will be turned up loud, as things should be.

If you get the chance to see her play live, check her out, you wont be disappointed.

Welcome to the Mozztronics family Minnie.

https://www.minniemarks.com/

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BP-6 Bass Preamp / DI

Due to the success of the AP-1 Acoustic Guitar Preamp & DI, we set out to make a version with eq tailored for bass. This unit is 100% analogue in the signal path. No digital simulations here. Despite the upright bass graphic on hte pedal, this is for electric bass as well as upright.

There are two main uses for the Mozztronics Bass Preamp BP-6. The first is on a pedal board to add in a preset eq, or leave it on all the time to add extra tone capacity to your existing amplifier. The second is for home recording so you can get a great bass sound without micing up an amp.

Controls are exactly what you will expect to find. The main preamp controls are VOLume, BASS 30Hz, LO MID 220Hz, HI MID 1kHz, and TREBLE 4kHz. We also added a 20Hz High Pass Filter (HPF) to take the rumble out of your signal.

There is a built in DI with an earth LIFT switch. The DI signal comes from the ¼” output of the pedal and both are controlled by the footswitch. There is an internal switch inside the pedal that controls what happens when the footswitch is pressed, you can set the pedal for BYPASS or MUTE when the red EFFECT ON led is off. For acoustic instruments it is very handy to be able to mute the pedal output while tuning with a clip on piezo tuner.

The fantastic upright bass player from the Australian band 19twenty took the unit out to road test it for me. This is what he said about the unit, complete & unedited.

“Hey Andrew!
Thank you SO much for the honour of road-testing your new Bass Preamp DI before its official release.
What can I say? It’s exactly what a working & travelling bassist needs. Whether used by an electric or acoustic bassist, this preamp DI guarantees the player an extremely versatile sound. I love how I can set the pedal to unity gain & uncoloured EQ, and start there. 90% of preamps have baked-in tone colouration which can’t be dialed out – and I like to start at ground-zero before making changes to my bass’ sound.
If I set all EQ to 12:00 and the volume to 10:00, I have dead-set unity – YAY!!!
We played a sold-out 300-person room last night, with two sets of 2×18″ sub cabinets under the stage. The rumble was causing some tails in my bass attack (the little delayed “ooomph…” after each note, as the sound feeds-back into the bass body), and I solved this in 0.5 seconds with the high pass filter switch on the pedal – a GENIUS feature!
Our FOH sound operator said this is such a great feature to have on a bass DI, and it helps immensely when the player can work around room issues with equipment like this.
I was able to also use the preamp as the main DI source, a clean-boost when the bass needs to stand out, AND the Low control (is it 30hz?) works incredibly well with my Boss OC-2. I sometimes find the OC-2 octave tone a little “middy” and “bloated” on some stages – but by increasing the Low control to 2:00, I was able to use those 2×18″ subs to rattle the very foundations of the building! Our blues/rock/party band almost turned into an EDM set with those in the signal chain!
I think this pedal should be in production asap, and it should be a staple of every travelling bassist in Australia.

I’m also thinking about all those using a Sansamp. What can this pedal do that the sansamp doesn’t? Well, it allows zero tone colouration for one. Yes, the Sansamps have a steep high-end roll-off which doesn’t suit acoustic basses. All the airy, glassy acoustic properties get lost with a Sansamp – but not with this preamp DI. Additionally, the EQ points on this preamp are vastly different to all of the Sansamp devices. I feel this preamp is designed for achieving the best possible stage-sound for the player, and the clearest DI sound for PA systems. Sansamps are highly tweakable to achieve a variety of sounds, but can be overly compressed with their gain structure – and I don’t feel as though they are set to EQ points which allow bassists a clear stage sound, whilst remaining uncoloured enough to deliver a clear DI signal without over-processing.
This preamp also allows the player a mute switch, should they set it so internally. This is a great benefit to acoustic bassists to mute their instruments during a performance, or when plugging in/out of a device — as many acoustic players use piezo tuners, and don’t carry a tuner pedal for muting purposes.
Sansamp devices also don’t include a rumble-filter, or HPF to prevent low-end feedback caused by frequencies around the 20-30hz regions.
To achieve this with a Sansamp device, one needs to turn down the Bass control, which in turn thins the sound of the instrument. The HPF on this preamp creates NO thinning, while instantly deterring any feedback as I found at last night’s performance.
This preamp DI is a straight-forward, meat and potatoes dedicated tool of the trade. There are no false bells & whistles, no marketing ploys and best of all, nothing to make it overcomplicated or confusing. I’m going to recommend this to every student, friend and budding bassist I know, who wants to get the most out of their performance – and their instrument! “

Mozztronics uses the industry standard Boss style 2.1mm center negative 9V DC socket for the power supply connection. There is more than enough headroom with a 9VDC supply so there is no need for a separate 12VDC or 18VDC supply.

Email me at mozztronics@hotmail.com for more information

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BB-2 Duo Boost

A boost pedal is often the last thing to be added to a pedal board, but never underestimate what it can do. It can drive long cables without treble loss, it can slam the front end of a valve amp for serious dirt, and it can go ahead of a distortion box to kick the distortion up a notch or three.

We looked at what was around, and decided there was room for a boost pedal, but it had to…  a) get full boost from a standard 9V power supply without an internal switch mode supply or charge pump power supply to boost the internal voltage    b) not require 18V power    c) have an inbuilt always on buffer so as to reduce loading on the guitar and drive long cables without tone loss   d) give more than 20dB of boost    e) be clean even at or close to maximum boost f) have two footswitchable boost channels

We think we did it !

This is the Big Brother to our BB-1 Big Boost pedal. The internal circuitry is the same on the BB-2 but we added 2 footswitchable channels.

There is one main control for each channel on this pedal,   BOOST,   which goes from 0dB boost to 27dB boost. We added a CONTOUR switch, so the boost signal can be full range, or with a slight bass cut at around 160Hz. We use a similar technology to that used in class G power amps inside this beast so we can get the massive clean output we wanted.

We included a switchable “full range” buffer so if the pedal is used at the end of the pedal board, we can drive long cables back to an amp without loss of tone even in bypass, or if the pedal is used at the start of the pedal board, it will buffer the guitar so as to maintain high impedance loading on the guitar to avoid loss of tone. The small switch BYP – BYP+BUFF controls the function of the buffer in BYPASS mode only, when this switch is set to BYP the buffer is not in circuit in bypass mode, when this switch is set to BYP+BUFF the buffer is in circuit in bypass mode.

Mozztronics uses the industry standard Boss style 2.1mm center negative 9V DC socket for the power supply connection.

Email me at   mozztronics@hotmail.com for pricing and Paypal information

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A note on the placement of the Mozztronics Duo Boost BB-2 in your pedal chain
Due to the enormous output levels available with this pedal, it is possible to overload the input stages of digital delays, other digital effects, and some solid state amplifiers. Experiment with BOOST level and placement of the Mozztronics Duo Boost BB-2 in your signal chain to find what best works for you and your system. Start with low BOOST settings and adjust the BOOST up if needed.

The BB-2 can be used at the start of your pedal chainand used to boost level into a dirt pedal, for even more dirt.
The BB-2 can be used at the end of your pedal chain to drive long cables going to your amplifier, and to slam the front end of a tube amp when boost is turned on.

Duo Vibe VB-2

We here at Mozztronics love modulation, especially Vibrato, whether it be vocal pitch modulation (within reason, we all know singers who go way too far with this) or string bending on a guitar. Many tube amps have Tremolo and a rare few have a much more “wobbly” version called a Vibrato. We all know that real vibrato is a change in pitch, and this pedal pushes and pulls the audio signal to create variable pitch, just like in those fantastic amps from long ago. The old amp in question used a device called a varistor (a device whose resistance changes with the voltage across it) and these varistors are no longer available, so we worked out another way to do this.
The Mozztronics VB-2 Duo-Vibe effects pedal creates a wonderfully wobbly vibrato effect

An opto based device is used to modulate the guitar signal. This opto device is controlled by a sinusoidal low frequency oscillator (LFO). At low depth settings the Vibrato effect can be quite subtle.
We put two Vibrato stages in series, each with its own LFO and depth controls.
We also included a switch to swap the LFO source for stage 2 to either the stage 2 LFO or the stage 1 LFO and another switch to select whether the stage 2 LFO is in phase or out of phase with the stage 1 LFO.
We also added DRY blend, to add some of the original signal into the output along with the vibrato signal.

SPD-1 controls the speed of the stage 1 Vibrato effect, DEP-1 controls the amount of the effect, SPD-2 controls the speed of the stage 2 Vibrato effect, DEP-2 controls the amount of the effect, DRY controls how much of the original signal is mixed with the Vibrato signal, VOLUME adjusts the overall volume out of the pedal, and there is a switch to select the source of the stage 2 LFO, from either the stage 2 LFO, or from the stage 1 LFO and a switch to select whether the stage 2 LFO is in or out of phase with the stage 1 LFO.

We also added internal switches to set the range of each LFO.

If you set SPD-1 fairly fast, and SPD-2 much slower you can get a wonderfully swirly and wobbly vibrato effect unlike anything you have heard before.

Video coming soon.

Mozztronics uses the industry standard Boss style 2.1mm center negative 9V DC socket for the power supply connection.

Email me at mozztronics@hotmail.com for more information

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Damo Drive DD-1

The DD-1 Damo Drive is a low gain pedal, and is my version of a “sexy” pedal that is loved by country (and Rock) guitarists. It takes the ice pick out of a single coil guitar into a twin amp, which is why the country guitarists love it so much.

My captive Studio Engineer used to run a music shop (years ago in a former life) where he sold bucketloads of this “sexy” pedal, but he forgot to keep one for himself. So he has been asking me for a year or more to make him one.
So in the end i relented and made him one of these pedals. I added several extra features, true bypass, jfet input buffer, a 5 way switch to select clipping options which allowed me to add 2 clipping options not available on the original pedal, a little extra gain, and a different chip which on its own clips in a much nicer way that the chip in the original pedal.

The pedal in question is a basic low gain TS architecture but with a funky tone control and a toggle switch to change the clipping mode, and turn off clipping altogether in one of the modes.

Can you just turn the gain down on a higher gain pedal I hear you ask ?
Well, yes, and no.

The secret in this pedal is in the tone control and the mode switch. We don’t have a “mid hump” like that other pedal has, and the tone control is perfect for taking the “brittle edge” out of single coil pickups into bright amps. So just turning the gain down on other pedals wont sound like this one, and we also have the 5 different operating modes allowing you a broad range of different drive sounds.
This is a full range pedal and there is a slight bass boost also, making this pedal very usable for bass players.

So here it is, my Damo Drive. The 5 clipping options are
1. Hard
2. Asymmetrical Medium
3. Heavily Asymmetrical Soft
4. Mozz special hard
5. No clipping

Mozztronics uses the industry standard Boss style 2.1mm center negative 9V DC socket for the power supply connection.

Email me at mozztronics@hotmail.com for more information

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