Thorn Soundlab announces Black Swamp Flex Fuzz pedal

December 17, 2025 · 3 sources

Thorn Soundlab announced the Black Swamp Flex Fuzz, a fully analog fuzz pedal, in a report published by Delicious Audio on December 17, 2025¹. The Thorn Soundlab Black Swamp Flex Fuzz is made in Nashville¹.

The pedal has a seven-knob control panel that Delicious Audio describes as extending beyond standard Gain, Volume and Tone¹. The Damping control is an input filter that sets how much low end reaches the distortion circuit¹. The EQ is an active three-band system of Bass, Mid and Treble, with a parametric Mid Freq knob to sweep the center of the midrange boost or cut¹. Two toggles make broader changes: the Character switch selects between Smooth, Normal and Hot clipping responses, and the Hard Clip switch toggles between soft and aggressive asymmetric clipping¹.

Guitar Pedal X lists the controls as Gain, Damping, Mid Frequency from 300Hz to 2kHz, Volume, Character (Smooth, Natural, Hot), Hard Clip (off/on), Bass, Mid and Treble². Guitar World lists the origin as China³.

Guitar Pedal X reports a US price of $199, with the pedal available direct from Thorn Soundlab and at select international dealers². Guitar World also lists $199³.

Guitar Pedal X's Stefan Karlsson described the pedal as covering Fuzz Face, Tone Bender and Big Muff territory, and said the Hard Clip switch tightens and darkens the output, typically for Big Muff styles². He wrote that the pedal delivers substantial volume but that clipped sound remains when guitar volume is reduced, so it does not approach germanium Fuzz Face cleanup². Guitar World's Trevor Curwen wrote that the Black Swamp is as much a distortion as a fuzz, in the way a Big Muff can be, and that its semi-parametric midrange provides an extra layer of tone shaping³.