JHS Pedals Coyote Octave Swell Fuzz

I love the raunchy, dirty, unpredictability of a good octave fuzz – I mean, who doesn’t, right? When they’re really weird or obscure, I like ’em even better, so I was excited to see what lay in store with the JHS Pedals Coyote Octave Swell Fuzz. Based on a mega-rare, small batch fuzz from a builder who you’ve probably never heard of, this pedal has unique mode-blending features and off-the-wall fuzz sounds that I haven’t come across before…and, apparently, few other people have, until now.

Every octave fuzz you’ve ever played traces back to just a handful of circuits: the Octavia, the Super Fuzz, and the Tone Machine. The Coyote doesn’t originate from any of these classic topologies. The Coyote is a complete replication of the obscure and very difficult to find Moonrock Fuzz by G.S. Wyllie, a reclusive North Carolina builder who sandcast his own enclosures, etched his own boards, and designed a unique fuzz utilizing a transformer in an unconventional way that sounds like nothing else — the product of wild experimentation combined with solid electrical engineering fundamentals.

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Put it first in your chain. Play it into another overdrive or an overdriven amp — that’s how almost every iconic octave fuzz tone was created. Clean amps work, but the sound in your head usually has some overdrive after the fuzz. Neck pickup, above the twelfth fret — that’s where the octave effect is most pronounced. Humbuckers push the swell and octave harder. Single coils give more clarity. Both sound great. Roll back your guitar’s volume knob and this pedal transforms. At lower settings on the Swell / Fuzz / Octave control, the Coyote becomes remarkably touch-sensitive — light picking gives you warm, controlled fuzz while digging in triggers the swell. It cleans up better than any octave fuzz we’ve ever played. That kind of dynamic response is almost unheard of in this category.

The Coyote Octave Swell Fuzz is a tribute Glenn (who passed away in 2014) and the wily circuit he left behind. If you’re a doom player, a riff rocker, a blues explorer, or if you’ve tried every fuzz on the market and you’re still looking for the one you haven’t played — you’re the Coyote. You’re the fuzz scavenger. More info over on the JHS Pedals website, as always – thanks to those guys for sending this one over for me to check out, demo is out now on our YouTube channel, so go watch, like, comment and subscribe!! Cheers!!