Electro-Harmonix announces Lizard Queen as production model
May 1, 2023 · 3 sources
Electro-Harmonix has announced the Lizard Queen, an octave fuzz pedal, as a production model in its catalog, according to MusicRadar's 4 May 2023 round-up of new pedals1. The pedal first surfaced as a design by Josh Scott of JHS Pedals on an episode of the JHS Show on YouTube, and the final version is a smaller nano production model of Scott's '70s-style big box original, carrying Daniel Danger's graphic design and Scott's circuit design1. PedalPedia describes the original as a homage to Electro-Harmonix in what Scott and Danger consider the company's design heyday of the 1970s, first featured on the JHS Show in 20222.
The Lizard Queen is a fixed gain fuzz pedal with Volume, Octave and Balance knobs, housed in EHX's Nano-sized chassis2. Volume controls overall output level; the Octave control adjusts the level of the octave-up signal from zero to full; and the Balance knob sets the tone balance between the smoother Shadow setting and the raspy, biting Sun setting2. PedalPedia lists the circuit as analog, the tone as inspired by EHX's fuzz pedigree with a unique analog octave up circuit, and the pedal as adorned with vintage EHX-inspired graphics designed by Daniel2. It runs on 9V DC, center negative, at 5mA2. PedalPedia's width, depth and height fields read "000.00 mm"2.
MusicRadar gives the price as $991. PedalPedia's technical data does not list a price2.
"The nano-sized pedal is the vintage EHX octave fuzz that never was but now is!"
In a JHS Pedals video published in September 2024, Scott described the pedal as "an octave fuzz design that I collab at on electr harmonics" and said the Nano version is "super affordable," with "a really gnarly octave overtone in the notes when you play higher on the neck"3.