Great Eastern FX launches Focus Fuzz Deluxe with boost, drive and octave

March 28, 2025 · 3 sources

Great Eastern FX released the Focus Fuzz Deluxe, an expanded version of its limited Hybrid Focus Fuzz, on March 28, 2025¹². The original was a 250-unit run, and 400 units of the Deluxe were planned¹.

The Deluxe keeps the hybrid two-transistor Fuzz Face-like core and adds separate Boost, Overdrive and Octave/Overtone circuits, selected by a Boost/Drive/Fuzz rotary switch¹. A second footswitch engages the octave-up²³. The circuit uses six transistors: one MP38A germanium, four BC107B and one BC177B¹. Controls are Focus, Level, Mode and Fuzz; the Focus knob combines gain boost and frequency boost, and the Fuzz knob affects bias, gain and compression together¹. The Fuzz control works only in fuzz mode, and in the boost and drive modes the Focus knob also adds gain to the front of the circuit³. Guitar.com describes the boost mode as capable of "quite a lot of added output" and the drive mode as having "too much fuzzy fluffiness to sound like any kind of conventional overdrive"³. The pedal takes 9V DC from a pedalboard power supply and draws around 10mA².

Guitar Pedal X, which wrote the announcement, said of the original design:

Guitar.com lists the price at $349³. MusicRadar reported the pedal available now from the Great Eastern FX webstore¹². Guitar.com's review notes the enclosure weighs 650g and that the three-way switch is rotary rather than a toggle³.