Anarchy Audio Deadwoods

The Deadwoods is a distortion/fuzz pedal from Anarchy Audio, an Australian manufacturer. It sits in the territory where distortion and fuzz overlap, and it is built with two audiences in mind: guitarists running high gain amps, and bass players looking for an aggressive fuzz voice.¹

What it does

The pedal is inspired by two Japanese circuits that have picked up a following over the years: the Boss HM2 Heavy Metal and the Shinei FY-2 Companion Fuzz. Delicious Audio's Paolo De Gregorio described the Deadwoods as drawing on "two cult Japanese circuits (Boss HM2 Heavy Metal and Shinei FY-2 Companion Fuzz)".¹

For players, Anarchy Audio frames the pedal's purpose in blunt terms. The maker's description, as published by Delicious Audio, is that you can "utlise Deadwoods to massacre your crunchy high gain amp or give your bass guitar a ripping chainsaw fuzz, without sacrificing low end".¹ That last part matters for bassists, since aggressive fuzz designs often thin out the low end; the Deadwoods is presented as keeping it intact.

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