Red Witch Releases the Seraphina Pedal

May 1, 2020 · 6 sources

Red Witch announced the Seraphina, a handmade fuzz octave-up pedal the maker described as unlike any fuzz pedal it had offered before. The circuit is centered on four matched germanium diodes, with through-hole components, and the pedal is built by hand in New Zealand by designer Ben Fulton¹²³.

The maker pitched the pedal's range in its own words⁴:

Key features as announced:

• Four matched germanium diodes, through-hole components and MKT capacitors⁴¹
• Two footswitches, one engaging the pedal and one engaging the octave up⁴
• Three external top-mounted dials: Fuzz, Tone and Volume²
• Two internal trim pots, one setting the flavor of the octave up and one setting the overall fuzz girth²
• True-bypass switching⁴
• Vintage cream powder coat enclosure⁴

The separate footswitches drew comment from Gearnews, whose reviewer wrote that the arrangement "makes this fuzz a lot more versatile than many other fuzz/octave effects on the market"⁵.

The Seraphina runs exclusively from a DC 9V wall-wart power supply, with no battery option⁴¹. It was available from 10am on May 1, C.S.T. USA, exclusively through Red Witch's Reverb store, at $299.99²⁶. Gearnews listed the UK recommended retail price as GBP 249.69 plus shipping⁵. The maker offered it only for a very limited time, and its product page now lists the pedal as sold out at 349 USD⁴.