Stomp Under Foot Utility Muffin Overdrive Fuzz

If you love distortion and you love Frank Zappa, you’re gonna love today’s pedal. A mix of a couple different kinds of dirt, the Utility Muffin Overdrive Fuzz from Stomp Under Foot brings Zappa-esque tones to the forefront of your rig, presenting you with a wide range of tones to choose from. Although it only sports 3 knobs, this one has a lot of sounds under the hood, perfect for driving your favorite amp or getting a pristine recording tone…

The Utility Muffin is a recreation of Frank Zappa’s, modified, late 1970’s Big Muff™. The mods made to the pedal give it a very smooth, warm sound on the bass side but allows a little brightness on the high strings. They also reduce the gain of the pedal making it more of a low to medium overdrive/fuzz mix. The pedal yields a full-bodied, smooth, low-end and sweet highs with a little bite on lead notes.

In 2016, Stomp Under Foot made a very limited run of these pedals, inspired by Zappa’s pedal and called it the Utility Muffin, named after Frank Zappa’s recording studio, the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen. These pedals were sold exclusively through Coast Sonic, the third effect in a collaborative series between the two companies. All Stomp Under Foot pedals are made by hand, using only quality, through-hole components.

Features:
True-Bypass
Through-hole components
NOS parts
9V Battery or 2.1 9V Adapter Only
Handmade in the U.S.A.

It’s been a while since any effects from Stomp Under Foot made their way into the shop here, but I’m extremely glad the Utility Muffin Overdrive Fuzz and I found each other. This is one of those pedals that just doesn’t have a bad sound, no matter how hard you try to find one, and I’m here for it. Thanks to my buddy Bert Handy for lending this one to me to check out – be sure to head to YouTube to see and hear this one in action in our demo, cheers!