Crazy Tube Circuits Triptychon

The Crazy Tube Circuits Triptychon is a fuzz pedal that packs three independent tone elements into one enclosure: a boost and upper-octave fuzz section, a multi-voice vintage fuzz section, and an amplifier drive section. The Greek maker describes it as "a sonic artwork built around three independent tone elements, each complete on its own, yet fully realized"¹. It sells at £269/€299², and Guitar World lists the US price at $359³.

The signal order is boost into fuzz into drive³, so you can push the fuzz with the booster, then feed both into the overdrive for extra grind. The whole thing runs on silicon: the maker says the fuzz section uses "a custom six metal-can silicon transistor design that delivers true germanium tone and feel"¹.

Boost, fuzz and drive in one box

The pedal is laid out as three panels, one per section, in a three-panel metal box that Delicious Audio called "a manifesto in a metal box"⁴. Each section has its own controls, and the sections stack in a fixed order: boost into fuzz into drive³.

The boost/octave section offers a treble booster and an octave fuzz, each with two different modes you flip between using the "mod" button⁵. In boost mode it delivers two distinct treble booster voices, from classic cutting presence to a fuller, mid-focused response¹. Guitar.com's reviewer described it as settable for "either a Rangemaster-style lift to the high mids or something reaching a little lower down the frequency spectrum"⁵. Guitar World's Alex Lynham found himself leaving it in the Rangemaster setting, adding a treble boost³.

The fuzz section carries four circuits, detailed below under "Where the circuits come from⁵⁴²."

The drive section is an amplifier-style overdrive. Guitar.com's Richard Purvis found it "just about totally transparent, natural in feel, and perfect for giving those fuzzes an already crunchy base to build on," calling it "low-key brilliant"⁵.

Controls

Guitar World lists the control set as follows³:

Connectivity is input, output, an expansion footswitch jack and power³. There are no presets², and Guitar.com noted the absence of indicator LEDs for the push buttons as a drawback⁵.

The anti-buffer circuits and the XT footswitch

Two features shape how the Triptychon fits on a board. First, the pedal integrates dedicated switchable anti-buffer circuits that restore the correct impedance relationship, allowing use with buffers, active pickups and wireless systems¹. The maker's guidance is simple: engage the anti-buffer circuits when a buffered pedal or active pickups or circuits are present before the Triptychon, and disengage them when connecting directly from a passive guitar pickup¹. Guitar Pedal X noted that the buffer switches support placing the pedal further up the chain⁶, which matters because vintage-style fuzz circuits are normally sensitive to what feeds them.

Second, there is the optional XT external footswitch, which adds a switch for each of the three sections⁵. Guitar.com's reviewer found navigating "actually a lot simpler with the XT footswitch plugged in: now you've got a pedal made up of three sections"⁵, but summed up the stock experience bluntly:

Richard Purvis, Guitar.com⁵

He also noted the footswitch is not included in the price⁵. Guitar Pedal X reported the optional remote is priced at €49⁶.

Where the circuits come from

The Triptychon's fuzz section is built from four classic circuits: a Fuzz Face and three Tone Benders, the Vox, Mk1.5 and MkII variants⁵. MusicRadar describes the fuzz as inspired by the Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face circuit, transformable into an upper-octave complete fuzz².

What reviewers said

Reviews were largely positive about the sounds and split on the ergonomics. Guitar.com scored it 8 out of 10, concluding that the classic rock tones are beyond argument but the pedal is compromised without the XT footswitch, feeling "like a big pedal trapped in a small pedal's body" that "would surely have made more sense as a wide-format" unit⁵. On the fuzzes themselves, the reviewer found them "big, warm and fluffy in vintage style. All four options are nicely balanced, with no spikiness"⁵.

Guitar Pedal X was more enthusiastic:

Stefan Karlsson, Guitar Pedal X⁶

He called it "a fully granular vintage fuzz system currently unparalleled at this compact size"⁶. MusicRadar's Jonathan Horsley noted that at £269/€299 "it is not cheap"². Guitar.com also pointed to the Great Eastern FX Co. Focus Fuzz Deluxe (£299/$349) as the Triptychon's closest rival⁵.

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