Thorpy FX announces Tacit Blue germanium fuzz pedal

November 9, 2023 · 3 sources

Thorpy FX has announced the Thorpy FX Tacit Blue, a germanium fuzz pedal, Delicious Audio reported on November 9, 2023¹. It is part of the UK company's "Vintage Reimagined" series²¹.

Delicious Audio reported that the pedal is not a Blues Breaker variant, as the name might have suggested, but "a Fuzz Face one"¹. The report described it as a highly modified circuit with a broader sonic palette than the original, able to deliver thick lower gain overdrive tones when the Fuzz knob is set lower¹. The other knobs are Smooth, Volume and Bias; Smooth sets the wooliness of the fuzz tone, and Bias adds what the report called a little bit more aggression¹. The circuit sits in a laser-cut black anodized aluminum enclosure¹.

Thorpy FX's own description, as published by PedalPedia, says the sound is based on a highly modified fuzz face type circuit for a more versatile vintage style sound, and that the pedal can give a subtle hair to notes or get crazily thick, or serve as a lower gain overdrive².

PedalPedia lists the circuit type as analog and the voltage as 9V DC, center negative². Its width, depth and height fields show 000.00 mm². No US price or ship date was given in the published material.

Delicious Audio's post followed its coverage of a second pedal in the same series, the Have Blue, a germanium boost based on a modified Rangemaster circuit³¹. A review headline cited by PedalPedia described the pair as Thorpy reissuing its germanium veteran across two separate compact pedals³.