Beetronics Royal Jelly OD/Fuzz Limited Edition All Blue

The Beetronics Royal Jelly OD/Fuzz Limited Edition All Blue is a limited-run version of the Royal Jelly, an overdrive/fuzz blender pedal. Instead of stacking one gain stage into another, it runs an overdrive circuit and a fuzz circuit in parallel, so the two can be blended in any proportion or used on their own¹. Beetronics describes it as covering "any ground from overdrive to fuzz, running two circuits in parallel and giving you the possibility of blend"¹.

The All Blue edition is finished entirely in blue and is listed by Beetronics as sold out¹. Like other Royal Jelly editions, it is hand made in California¹.

Overdrive and fuzz in parallel, blendable or separate

Most overdrive and fuzz pedals chain their gain into one voice. The Royal Jelly's approach is different: the overdrive and fuzz circuits are two parallel paths, and the blend control sets how much of each you hear. Run it toward the overdrive side for tamed breakup, toward the fuzz side for a full fuzz voice, or anywhere between for a hybrid neither circuit would produce alone¹.

The pedal also carries two presets of that blend, called Queen and King¹. Beetronics says the presets do two jobs:

• Give you two different sounds available on the fly
• Make for a very natural transition between them, because the change works by mixing the overdrive and fuzz levels rather than switching between unrelated settings¹

A DRY control blends your clean signal back in. On guitar, Beetronics says it is "great to create unique clean tones with a fuzzy background"¹, which points at one of the pedal's more unusual tricks: a mostly clean sound with fuzz sitting underneath it, something a series overdrive-into-fuzz chain cannot do.

For tone shaping, the Royal Jelly's EQ gives 10 dB of cut or boost on HI and LO bands, which Beetronics says makes it possible to shape your tone in many different ways².

Power and size

The All Blue requires a 9V DC power supply with a center negative plug, and Beetronics notes that a power supply is not included¹. There is no battery option stated, so it needs a pedalboard supply or a dedicated adapter from day one.

Physically it is a substantial enclosure: 6-1/8" x 5-1/16" x 2-3/4", weighing 2 lbs (1 kg), with a shipped package size of 7-1/2" x 6-1/4" x 3-1/4" and package weight of 2.5 lbs (1.25 kg)¹. That is closer to a large fuzz enclosure than a compact mini pedal, so plan board space accordingly.

Where the Royal Jelly came from

Beetronics presents the Royal Jelly as a first of its kind in its category, "blending overdrive and fuzz in a way no pedal had done beefore"³. The standard Royal Jelly OD/Fuzz carries the same parallel-circuit design and the same Queen and King presets as this limited edition⁴⁵, and RockBoard's PedalPedia lists the Royal Jelly under overdrive and fuzz⁵. For players weighing it against other Beetronics fuzzes, the parallel-blend concept is what separates it from the company's single-voice designs like the OctaHive and WhoctaHell.

Limited editions of the Royal Jelly

The All Blue is one of many limited runs of the Royal Jelly. Beetronics has released it in small batches with distinct finishes, and the runs sell out: the Royal Jelly OD/Fuzz Limited Edition was a 10-piece run²⁶, the standard OD/Fuzz edition is sold out²⁴⁶, and the "Memorial" edition, itself a 10-piece run, is sold out as well⁷⁶. Other editions include the Pink/Blue limited edition⁷ and Custom Shop versions such as the Custom Shop 420 edition³. The All Blue sits in that same pattern: a fixed finish, a limited quantity, and a hand made build in California¹.

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