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JUST ARRIVED! $299.95	The Box of Metal (tm) is an aggressive high-gain pedal with a highly-effective built-in switchable gate which dramatically reduces noise and unwanted feedback. it is available in Vexter (2 yr warranty) and hand-painted (lifetime warranty) versions. Its gain and tonal characteristics are somewhat simi liar to high-gain tube amps that have been the stable of hard rock and metal sounds since the 80s. On the right, there is a true-bypass switch with an indicator LED to bypass the entire effect. on the left is a gate switch which is only effective when the pedal is on (the gate can not be used separate) When the gate's LED (on the left) is ON the gate will be active whenever the pedal is turned on. The gate is very usefully for cleaning up any noise between palm muted chords and lead phrases, but may be switched off to initiate feedback or to stretch out soloed notes that are fading into noise ! Switching off and on the gate is silent so the gating action of the pedal can instantly be changed during any part of the performance to fluidly integrate soloing and palm muted chords !
The new model Fuzz Factory has the same great sound and high-quality parts as the original hand-painted Fuzz Factory, but it's been updated with an on/off LED and a DC power jack that works with Boss®-type 9VDC adaptors. Jason Myrold designed the silkscreen artwork, black and green over a hand-polished, lacquered aluminium enclosure. The Vexter Series Fuzz Factory is exactly the same as the hand-painted series in sound and function, but because it is nothand-painted, we are able to offer it at a moderately reduced price. Price $169.95	This is the perfect preamp pedal. The "Crackle Okay" volume knob is a negative-feedback control styled after classic 60's recording console inputs. (They crackled when adjusted too.) Most vintage guitars suffer from steadily deteriorating magnets in their pickups, since permanent magnets aren't really forever. The Super Hard-On's input impedance is so high (>5 Meg) that it refuses any current flow from your pickup... maintaining the most magnetic field around each string, so you can hear exactly what your pickup sounded like the day it came off the winder. The ouput level can exceed 8 volts peak, and when it finally distorts, the wave is shaped like triode overload, not fuzz. price $199.95
This is a five-knob fuzz using two new old-stock sixties germanium transistors. The circuit is not modeled after any classic fuzz design, but should have been around when Leary was still lucid. Although the five knobs are named for the parameters over which they seem to have the most control, please don't hold me to it. They are controls for various operating levels and biases, and basically shape you a personalized fuzz. The almost infinitely variable settings can lead to frightening sqeals, undulating vibratory oscillations, duotone intermodulations, wacky fizzy fuzzes, severely overdriven ultrametal tones with snappy-tight gate action, shortwave whistles, octave up and octave down effects, squinty frying sizzles, ripping velcro fizzles, and pretty soft theremin pitches thatcan be gently controlled with your volume knob on your guitar. You may never sleep again. price $279.95	Sensitive and touchy, This bass fuzz has tremendous bottom end and a beautiful harmonic structure that sounds blistering with a guitar too.. price $309.95
The Box of Rock is Z. Vex Efx first "distortion" pedal, highly specialized to simulate the "everything of 10" sound of a classic Marshall JTM45 non-master-volume amplifier. You may use the BOR effectively with many different amplifiers, but to get the sound I heard when I designed it, try it through a Marshall at least once. You may use your guitar's volume control to adjust for the exact amount of distortion you need, all the way down to very clean and clear with most drive settings. The BOR also contains an extremely high-bedroom, unity-to-50 X gain booster with nominal input impedance and low hiss. It is very similiar to the SHO boost circuit, with refinements to make it sound more like a standard amp input and less glassy. The boost channel can be used alone or in conjunction with the "distortion engine" channel. The boost channel follows, the distortion channel so that the distortion is able to hit your amp harder (at a higher volume) when both switches are engaged, for boosting solos and what-not. price $199.95	The controls are as follows: from the upper left, there is a run/step switch to select sequence/random operation or manual stepping operation, a speed control for the sequence/random mode, 8 individual carrier pitch adjustment knobs, the sequence/random stomp switch which doubles as a manual step control, and the true-bypass stomp switch on the right. Also, inside there is a trim-pot adjustment to set the mix of ring-modulated sound versus direct guitar... when shipped from the factory, this is mix is set for pure ring-modulation. price $349.95
JONNY OCTAVE: This "clean" analog octave-up pedal will raise your single-note solos one octave or two octaves up when you play through your neck pickup at the 12th fret. The Jonny's octave-up "engine" contains 4 germanium diodes and a transformer in each channel, with four internal gain trimmers allow adjustment for your playing style. price $329.95	Machine is actually a dual frequency-tripler circuit that uses crossover distortion for the first time in any pedal, ever. It generates the distortion of the wave in the sloped part of the cycle, instead of the peaks and valleys like all other distorters and fuzzes. In other words, it distorts when your guitar string is in the middle of vibrating, while it's swinging, not as it's turning around. That's the same place where your speaker cone is sort of coasting, between all the way in and all the way out. Where nothing is happening, this pedal happens. With Machine you can leave your favorite distorting pedals on and still add a new element of energetic grind. One thing to keep in mind, however, is that this pedal basically sounds horrible. It's primary purpose is to cut through. price $309.95
The SUPER-DUPER 2-IN-1 (TM) has two of Zvex's infamous but rather delightful Super Hard-On(TM) pedals in one small box, with two switches and LED indicators. HEY! I responded to your multitude of complaints that I don't put in LED's! Gosh, what's next? Also, in this SUPER-DUPER 2-IN-1 (TM) (gosh I love saying that) is a Master volume control that lets you use it as an overdrive/distortion with any output volume. My my! How conventional, you say! Well, suffice to say, if it weren't there, you'd go deaf with both of those channels cranked up. This pedal is dangerously loud. Don't do what I did, and lean over in front of your speaker cabinet while turning it up. price $289.95	Too many features to even list.... 20 sec looper that distroys all other loopers in a 1/4 of the size. price $349.95
ZVEX BACKPLATES price $25.00

JUST ARRIVED! $299.95

The Box of Metal (tm) is an aggressive high-gain pedal with a highly-effective built-in switchable gate which dramatically reduces noise and unwanted feedback. it is available in Vexter (2 yr warranty) and hand-painted (lifetime warranty) versions. Its gain and tonal characteristics are somewhat simi liar to high-gain tube amps that have been the stable of hard rock and metal sounds since the 80s. On the right, there is a true-bypass switch with an indicator LED to bypass the entire effect. on the left is a gate switch which is only effective when the pedal is on (the gate can not be used separate) When the gate's LED (on the left) is ON the gate will be active whenever the pedal is turned on. The gate is very usefully for cleaning up any noise between palm muted chords and lead phrases, but may be switched off to initiate feedback or to stretch out soloed notes that are fading into noise ! Switching off and on the gate is silent so the gating action of the pedal can instantly be changed during any part of the performance to fluidly integrate soloing and palm muted chords !

fuzzvex The new model Fuzz Factory has the same great sound and high-quality parts as the original hand-painted Fuzz Factory, but it's been updated with an on/off LED and a DC power jack that works with Boss®-type 9VDC adaptors. Jason Myrold designed the silkscreen artwork, black and green over a hand-polished, lacquered aluminium enclosure. The Vexter Series Fuzz Factory is exactly the same as the hand-painted series in sound and function, but because it is nothand-painted, we are able to offer it at a moderately reduced price.

Price $169.95

superhard This is the perfect preamp pedal. The "Crackle Okay" volume knob is a negative-feedback control styled after classic 60's recording console inputs. (They crackled when adjusted too.) Most vintage guitars suffer from steadily deteriorating magnets in their pickups, since permanent magnets aren't really forever. The Super Hard-On's input impedance is so high (>5 Meg) that it refuses any current flow from your pickup... maintaining the most magnetic field around each string, so you can hear exactly what your pickup sounded like the day it came off the winder. The ouput level can exceed 8 volts peak, and when it finally distorts, the wave is shaped like triode overload, not fuzz.

price $199.95

fuzzfact This is a five-knob fuzz using two new old-stock sixties germanium transistors. The circuit is not modeled after any classic fuzz design, but should have been around when Leary was still lucid. Although the five knobs are named for the parameters over which they seem to have the most control, please don't hold me to it. They are controls for various operating levels and biases, and basically shape you a personalized fuzz. The almost infinitely variable settings can lead to frightening sqeals, undulating vibratory oscillations, duotone intermodulations, wacky fizzy fuzzes, severely overdriven ultrametal tones with snappy-tight gate action, shortwave whistles, octave up and octave down effects, squinty frying sizzles, ripping velcro fizzles, and pretty soft theremin pitches thatcan be gently controlled with your volume knob on your guitar. You may never sleep again.

price $279.95

zvexwool

Sensitive and touchy, This bass fuzz has tremendous bottom end and a beautiful harmonic structure that sounds blistering with a guitar too..

price $309.95

zvexrock The Box of Rock is Z. Vex Efx first "distortion" pedal, highly specialized to simulate the "everything of 10" sound of a classic Marshall JTM45 non-master-volume amplifier. You may use the BOR effectively with many different amplifiers, but to get the sound I heard when I designed it, try it through a Marshall at least once. You may use your guitar's volume control to adjust for the exact amount of distortion you need, all the way down to very clean and clear with most drive settings. The BOR also contains an extremely high-bedroom, unity-to-50 X gain booster with nominal input impedance and low hiss. It is very similiar to the SHO boost circuit, with refinements to make it sound more like a standard amp input and less glassy. The boost channel can be used alone or in conjunction with the "distortion engine" channel. The boost channel follows, the distortion channel so that the distortion is able to hit your amp harder (at a higher volume) when both switches are engaged, for boosting solos and what-not.

price $199.95

zvexring The controls are as follows: from the upper left, there is a run/step switch to select sequence/random operation or manual stepping operation, a speed control for the sequence/random mode, 8 individual carrier pitch adjustment knobs, the sequence/random stomp switch which doubles as a manual step control, and the true-bypass stomp switch on the right. Also, inside there is a trim-pot adjustment to set the mix of ring-modulated sound versus direct guitar... when shipped from the factory, this is mix is set for pure ring-modulation.

price $349.95

zvexjohnny JONNY OCTAVE: This "clean" analog octave-up pedal will raise your single-note solos one octave or two octaves up when you play through your neck pickup at the 12th fret. The Jonny's octave-up "engine" contains 4 germanium diodes and a transformer in each channel, with four internal gain trimmers allow adjustment for your playing style.

price $329.95

zvexmachine Machine is actually a dual frequency-tripler circuit that uses crossover distortion for the first time in any pedal, ever. It generates the distortion of the wave in the sloped part of the cycle, instead of the peaks and valleys like all other distorters and fuzzes. In other words, it distorts when your guitar string is in the middle of vibrating, while it's swinging, not as it's turning around. That's the same place where your speaker cone is sort of coasting, between all the way in and all the way out. Where nothing is happening, this pedal happens. With Machine you can leave your favorite distorting pedals on and still add a new element of energetic grind. One thing to keep in mind, however, is that this pedal basically sounds horrible. It's primary purpose is to cut through.

price $309.95

zvexsuperdup The SUPER-DUPER 2-IN-1 (TM) has two of Zvex's infamous but rather delightful Super Hard-On(TM) pedals in one small box, with two switches and LED indicators. HEY! I responded to your multitude of complaints that I don't put in LED's! Gosh, what's next? Also, in this SUPER-DUPER 2-IN-1 (TM) (gosh I love saying that) is a Master volume control that lets you use it as an overdrive/distortion with any output volume. My my! How conventional, you say! Well, suffice to say, if it weren't there, you'd go deaf with both of those channels cranked up. This pedal is dangerously loud. Don't do what I did, and lean over in front of your speaker cabinet while turning it up.

price $289.95

zvexlofiloop Too many features to even list.... 20 sec looper that distroys all other loopers in a 1/4 of the size.

price $349.95

zvexback ZVEX BACKPLATES price $25.00