The company sells its products through its own site, cnzaudio.com, where each pedal carries a model number in its name, such as the VDU-20 Dumbled Drive or the SPH-20 Phaser. CNZ Audio describes its pedals as housed in metal enclosures with true-bypass circuitry, as stated for the TUN-5 Tuner: "Just like all CNZ pedals, the TUN-5 sports a metal enclosure and true-bypass circuitry"452.
Overdrives and gain
CNZ Audio's gain pedals sit in its Vintage Series. The Dumbled Drive (VDU-20) is the company's Dumble-style overdrive, and CNZ Audio states its aim plainly: "Our goal with this pedal is to provide classic, boutique overdrive tones at a budget-friendly price." The maker also calls it "a customer favorite"2.
Alongside it sit two other overdrives:
| Pedal | Model | What the maker says |
|---|---|---|
| Dumbled Drive | VDU-20 | Vintage Series overdrive; "classic, boutique overdrive tones at a budget-friendly price"2 |
| Bluesy | VBL-20 | Analog overdrive; "Great Blues Sound"8 |
| Red Overdrive | SOD-20 | "perfectly emulates those warm, natural sounds you'd find in an over-driven tube amp"9 |
The gain side of the range also includes a Booster (SBO-20), which CNZ Audio says "brings a classic Rocket Booster look to this awesome pedal"10, and the Octopus (SOC-10), an octave pedal the maker describes as "bringing Classic Octave Tones in their Octopus Guitar Effect Pedal"6.
Modulation and time-based effects
CNZ Audio covers the main modulation types, several of them in mini format1157:
- Chorus (VCH-20): "a fully capable, broad range of Chorus tones in a mini sized pedal"11
- Phaser (SPH-20): a modulation pedal measuring 3.75 inches long by 1.77 wide by 1.9 tall5
- Flanger (SFL-20): "brings that classic, warm and wildly popular flanging effect" into one pedal7
For looping, the range includes the RePete Stereo Looper and the smaller Lil' RePete looper312.
Utility pedals
The rest of the catalog is the workhorse section of a pedalboard:
- Tuner (TUN-5): a chromatic tuner pedal in a metal enclosure with true bypass4
- EQ (GEQ-5): a graphic EQ pedal13
- Active Volume (AVP-1): an active volume pedal14
Power supplies, pedalboards and accessories
CNZ Audio treats power and board hardware as part of the range, not an afterthought. The Pedal Power Bolt Mini Pedal Power Supply is a compact DC supply; the maker says it "saves precious footprint on your board, provides clean power and protection for your pedals plus a cost savings over other devices with similar features"15.
The POW-2A Pedal Pow is a power supply with 8 outputs that "sits right on your board like any mini pedal"16. At the larger end, the Pedal Power Bolt 4 Rail Pedalboard is a pedalboard with a built-in power supply and carrying gig bag17.
CNZ Audio's own product pages give two different contents for the 4 Rail Pedalboard's included extension cables: 5 cables 19.6 in long, and 4 cables 31.5 in long, both 5.5mm diameter.
The company also sells a 1/4" Z Coupler, an adapter for joining pedals side by side, which it describes as "Great for connecting pedals of different heights and keeps your pedalboard organized and looking clean"18.
The range (35)
| Type | Pedals |
|---|---|
| Bass | CNZ Audio BEQ-5 |
| Boost | CNZ Audio Booster, CNZ Audio SBO-20 |
| Chorus | CNZ Audio Chorus, CNZ Audio VCH-20 |
| Delay | CNZ Audio Delay, CNZ Audio STE-10, CNZ Audio Tape Echo, CNZ Audio Time Warp |
| Distortion | CNZ Audio Crossfire Metal, CNZ Audio Distortion |
| EQ | CNZ Audio EQ, CNZ Audio GEQ-5, CNZ Audio SAC-20 |
| Filter | CNZ Audio Crush Bit |
| Flanger | CNZ Audio Flanger, CNZ Audio SFL-20 |
| Fuzz | CNZ Audio Fuzz |
| Looper | CNZ Audio Lil Re-Pete Looper |
| Noise gate | CNZ Audio Noise Gate, CNZ Audio SNG-20 |
| Octave and pitch | CNZ Audio Octopus |
| Overdrive | CNZ Audio Bluesy, CNZ Audio Dumble, CNZ Audio Dumbled Drive, CNZ Audio Overdrive, CNZ Audio SOD-20 |
| Phaser | CNZ Audio Phaser, CNZ Audio SPH-20 Phaser |
| Reverb | CNZ Audio VRB |
| Tremolo | CNZ Audio Tremolo, CNZ Audio VTR-20 |
| Tuner | CNZ Audio TUN-5 |
| Volume | CNZ Audio Active Volume, CNZ Audio AVP-1 |
Sources (18)
- CNZ Audio SOC-10 Octopus Octave, Pedal of the Day (www.pedal-of-the-day.com), 2020-03-03
- VDU-20 | Dumbled Drive Overdrive Pedal | CNZ Audio, CNZ Audio
- GLP-50 | RePete Stereo Looper Pedal | CNZ Audio, CNZ Audio
- TUN-5 | Tuner Pedal | CNZ Audio, CNZ Audio
- SPH-20 | Phaser Pedal | CNZ Audio, CNZ Audio
- SOC-10 | Octopus Octave Pedal | CNZ Audio, CNZ Audio
- SFL-20 | Flanger Pedal | CNZ Audio, CNZ Audio
- VBL-20 | Bluesy Overdrive Pedal | CNZ Audio, CNZ Audio
- SOD-20 | Overdrive Pedal | CNZ Audio, CNZ Audio
- SBO-20 | Booster Pedal | CNZ Audio, CNZ Audio
- VCH-20 | Chorus Pedal | CNZ Audio, CNZ Audio
- GLP-10 | Lil' RePete Looper Pedal | CNZ Audio, CNZ Audio
- GEQ-5 | EQ Pedal | CNZ Audio, CNZ Audio
- AVP-1 | Active Volume Pedal | CNZ Audio, CNZ Audio
- Mini Pedal Power Supply, CNZ Audio
- POW-2A | Power Supply | CNZ Audio, CNZ Audio
- 4 Rail Power Supply Pedalboard + Gig Bag, CNZ Audio
- 1/4" Guitar Effects Pedal Z Coupler, CNZ Audio