Pet Symmetry and Damnation Audio unveil BIG bass fuzz pedal

July 9, 2025 · 2 sources

Pet Symmetry and Damnation Audio unveiled BIG, a bass fuzz pedal, after years of development, according to Delicious Audio, which published its report on July 9, 2025¹. The pedal is a collaboration between the Chicago rock band and the Baltimore effects manufacturer¹.

Delicious Audio describes BIG as a purpose-built bass pedal that also works well on guitars, with a Muff-inspired fuzz circuit for thick, saturated distortion and a switchable clean boost to maintain low-end clarity¹. The report says the pedal runs on 9V or 18V, the latter providing additional headroom and gain, and that it has a simplified control set for quick, stage-ready adjustments rather than intricate tweaking¹. It traces the design to guitarist and bassist Evan Weiss' longtime use of a rare Muff-style fuzz paired with an always-on clean boost, a combination the report says is heard on Pet Symmetry's album "FUTURE PAST LIFE"¹.

Damnation Audio's product page for its Bass Fuzz Enforcer describes that pedal as a classic 4-stage design with Sustain, Tone, I/II, Volume and Clean controls, running on a standard 9V DC negative tip power supply, at $206.10 to $229.00². The page also says the Bass Fuzz Enforcer came out of the work on BIG: "When designing the amazing Pet Symmetry \"BIG\" fuzz we auditioned a lot of sounds and I squirreled a few away in my diary"². The page does not give BIG's price or its full control list.

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