Buzzing Bugs Audio Devices debuts with BB01 Fuzz Preamp and BB02 Percolator Fuzz
July 27, 2023 · 2 sources
Buzzing Bugs Audio Devices, the imprint of Dan Goldberg, made its debut with two pedals, the BB01 Fuzz Preamp and the BB02 Percolator Fuzz, Guitar Pedal X reported on July 27, 20231. The reviewer, Stefan Karlsson, wrote that he met Goldberg at the Brighton Guitar Show and FX Expo and picked up both pedals there1.
Both are fuzz pedals with top-mounted jacks and UV-printed enclosures, which Karlsson described as "polished, distinctively UV-printed pedals with top-mounted jacks"1. The BB01 has three controls, Volume, Hi-Cut and Gain, and the BB02 has two, Gain and Volume1. Karlsson wrote that gain onset is rapid on both, with his preferred range between 8 and 10 o'clock on the gain dials, and that higher settings mostly add compression1. He described the BB01 as the more open fuzzy-drive of the two and the BB02 as the gainier, more classic fuzz circuit1.
The BB01 was priced at 129 and the BB02 at 119, and Karlsson wrote that both were available to order from the Buzzing Bugs webstore1.
"The two official initial releases from his Buzzing Bugs imprint are thoroughly well considered from every angle, and smartly put together."
Guitar.com published a separate review of the BB01 by Richard Purvis on October 30, 2023, which described the pedal as designed to capture the warm crunch of the Vox AC30's Normal channel rather than its Top Boost tones, and its Hi-Cut control as a nod to the amp's cut knob2. Purvis wrote that the pedal moves from a gritty boost through overdrive to fuzz as the gain rises, and rated it 9 out of 102. He also wrote that the right half of the Hi-Cut control's range felt like "a bit of a waste"2.