Behringer Ring Stinger

The Behringer Ring Stinger is a fuzz pedal with a built-in ring modulator, announced by Behringer on 13 February 2026 and available for pre-order at $119 in the US and £99 in the UK¹. It is a recreation of the Lovetone Ring Stinger, a cult ring mod and fuzz pedal from the 1990s that has become one of the hardest Lovetone pedals to find². Behringer describes its version as bringing back "the DNA of a boutique 90's gem that had previously been lost to time"³.

Ring modulation multiplies your instrument's signal with an internal oscillator, producing the metallic, atonal clangor familiar from experimental guitar and synth records. Here it is paired with fuzz, an octave pitch-shifter and a low-frequency oscillator (LFO) that can sweep the modulation, all in one box. Behringer says the pedal is aimed at "guitarists, synth players, bassists, harpists, electric violinists and everything in between"³.

What it does and how it is controlled

The pedal combines several functions that the original Lovetone unit packed into its large hinged enclosure. JHS Pedals sums up the original as "a ring modulator, simple analog synthesizer, and an octave fuzz"², and Behringer's version carries the same combination: ring modulation and fuzz tones, plus footswitches for engaging the octave pitch-shifter and the LFO²⁴³.

The controls break into three groups:

Two rear-panel connections set it apart from a straightforward fuzz pedal. An external carrier signal input lets you feed your own oscillator into the ring modulator instead of the internal one³, and a VCO output routes the internal oscillator elsewhere in your rig, whether that is another effect, a mixer or a synth¹. Behringer says this gives you "a massive amount of control to bend sound to your will"³.

Power comes from a standard DC power supply¹, and the pedal uses true bypass, which MusicRadar notes "maintains the integrity of the dry signal when the effect is disengaged"¹.

The Lovetone original

The Ring Stinger was designed by Dan Coggins for Lovetone, the British builder whose pedals, including the Big Cheese, Brown Source, Doppelganger, Meatball, Flange With No Name and Ring Stinger, are now collectors' items⁵. Lovetone housed pedals like the Ring Stinger and the Meatball envelope filter in "huge, hinged enclosures" with complex combinations of low-frequency oscillators, control voltages, internal effects loops and expression pedal compatibility⁶.

Behringer describes the Ring Stinger as bringing back "the DNA of a boutique 90's gem that had previously been lost to time"¹³, a reference to the original Lovetone ring modulator the circuit traces back to. The company says the tones it produces "truly have to be heard to be understood"³, which fits a pedal whose ring modulation and fuzz sounds Behringer characterizes as sound sculpting carnage³.

How it fits with Behringer's other fuzz pedals

The Ring Stinger is not a straight fuzz recreation. Behringer positions it as reviving the DNA of a boutique 90's ring modulator pedal¹, and its controls go beyond fuzz: it carries footswitches for engaging the Octave pitch-shifter and the LFO²⁴³, with the ring modulator, LFO and carrier signal routing making it closer to a small analog synthesizer you can play through. It also works with a standard DC power supply⁷, like the rest of Behringer's pedal line.

If what you want is fuzz alone, other pedals cover that ground more simply. The Beetronics Vezzpa Octave Stinger, which shares the Stinger name, is a fuzz with two modes, FUZZZZ and STINGER, and no ring modulator. The Ring Stinger is for players who want the clangorous, experimental side of the effect⁸⁹.

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