Funny Little Boxes releases Caught By The Fuzz pedal

May 26, 2025 · 3 sources

Funny Little Boxes released the Caught By The Fuzz, its fourth signature sound pedal, with preorders open and units already shipping as of May 26, 2025¹. It follows the '1991', 'Skeleton Key' and 'Dirt', which were all based on the sounds of particular albums; this one is based on the fuzz sound of a single song, Supergrass's "Caught By The Fuzz"¹.

The pedal is a fuzz with two controls, Fuzz and Volume¹. Guitar Pedal X reported that it is not based on an existing circuit but was built to make a fuzz sound like the one on the track, using an OpAmp for tone generation¹. A later review in Guitar.com described the circuit as using two R4558I OpAmps with no clipping diodes or other circuit extras². Guitar Pedal X reported that the Fuzz dial produces no output below about 8 o'clock, reaches overdrive territory at that point and substantial gain by 3 o'clock, and that the Volume knob is already loud at noon². The review reported that with the fuzz turned down to around 9 or 10 o'clock the pedal behaves more like a low-gain overdrive, and that it softens rather than cleans up when the guitar's volume is rolled back³. Guitar Pedal X, by contrast, described strong guitar-volume gain cleanup².

The enclosure has top-mounted jacks and a pair of blue LEDs that flash in sequence like the lights on a UK police car²¹³. It runs on a 9V DC negative 2.1mm barrel connector power supply only, which is not included, has no battery compartment and draws a maximum of 11mA¹. Guitar.com reported that it is built in Norwich, England³.

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Guitar.com's reviewer called it "an eminently sensible and disciplined fuzz" and wrote that it "won't go anywhere near Big Muff territory in terms of sheer fuzziness"³. Guitar Pedal X wrote that the pedal "hasn't taken off quite as fast as its predecessors"².