Tape Audio Co. debuts ONE Fuzz, its first pedal

August 2, 2022 · 2 sources

Tape Audio Co. released the ONE Fuzz, the company's first product, Delicious Audio reported on August 2, 2022. The report describes Tape Audio Co. as a new pedal company run by people who have worked on guitar effects for over 15 years¹.

The ONE is a fuzz pedal built around two Silicon SE4010 transistors. Delicious Audio writes that although those transistors may suggest a Big Muff-style fuzz, the pedal's "rather extreme but tweakable sonic character doesn't closely match any of the classic vintage fuzzes"¹. The controls are a Master fader, a Comp fader and a Dark/Light switch. Master sets overall output, which the report says can feed extra volume into an amp. Comp sets the compression characteristic of the clipping diodes, described as ranging from compressed to big, open and tight. The switch offers two EQ flavors, for standing out (light) or blending into the mix (dark). Both controls are described as very interactive with the guitar's volume control¹.

The builder's notes list Allen Bradley Carbon Comp resistors, NOS Fairchild transistors, NOS Philips, Sprague and Kemet capacitors, NOS Germanium diodes, Bourns slide potentiometers, an NOS A&H rocker switch, and Switchcraft and Lumberg jacks. The pedal requires a regulated and filtered 9V DC power supply with a 2.1mm barrel tip, center negative¹.

Delicious Audio did not give a price or a ship date for the ONE¹. A Guitar.com report from May 14, 2022, on the company's second pedal, the TWO overdrive and distortion, listed that pedal at $199 and offered 15% off when buying both the ONE and TWO together².