Dr No Effects The Turd

The Turd Fuzz is a high-gain fuzz pedal made by Dr. No Effects, a Dutch company based in Eindhoven, and it looks exactly like its name: a soft, squishy, poo-shaped lump of foam you step on to switch the effect in and out¹. Under the joke enclosure sits a fuzz circuit the maker describes as a "nasty old fashioned fuzz tone, that works very well with guitar and bass guitar"². It was first presented in 2016¹.

A high-gain fuzz for bass and guitar

Dr. No says the Turd generates a nasty, old-fashioned fuzz tone, and Gearnews reported the maker describing it as a high-gain fuzz that "will sound equally good (shit?) both on bass or guitar"¹. The maker's own product page puts it more plainly: it "Smells great on every electric Guitar and Bass"². Premier Guitar's launch coverage repeated the same description, calling it a nasty old-fashioned fuzz tone that works very well with guitar and bass guitar⁷.

Guitar World added a circuit detail: the pedal includes a pair of NOS (new old stock) transistors that create the gnarly old-fashioned fuzz character³. The whole unit is fully handmade in Dr. No's lab, and the enclosure is built from what the maker calls very durable and strong foam material².

For players comparing it within the Dr. No range, the company also builds fuzzes like the SkullFuzz Original and the NecroFuzzIcon, but the Turd is the one built around a foam enclosure you press with your shoe²⁵¹.

Set-and-forget control from the guitar's volume

The Turd Fuzz has no volume or other external knobs. As the maker puts it, it "has no volume or other dail knobs as it is set to go!"². Instead, the design follows a set-and-forget approach that Gearnews described at launch:

Guitar World reported that the single internal volume potentiometer can be tuned with a tiny flat screwdriver³. In practice this means you set the internal trimmer once, then roll your guitar's volume knob down to clean up the fuzz and back up for full gain, the way players of vintage two-knob fuzzes often work.

The poo-shaped enclosure and light-up flies

The enclosure is the pedal's signature. It is turd-shaped and made of soft, spongy foam, with the footswitch built in underneath, so you press directly on the foam to engage the effect². Gearnews described the feel of it: "the pedal is soft and squishy, so you have to tread onto it and feel it squish under your shoe!"¹

The decoration is part of the joke too. The pedal comes complete with flies whose eyes light up green when the effect is engaged¹, so the LED status indicator doubles as part of the scenery.

The Mini Turd Fuzz

Dr. No also makes a smaller sibling, the Mini Turd Fuzz, which Gearnews called the pedalboard-friendly version of its "successful big brother The Turd"⁶. The Mini keeps the original turd shape but adds one external control: a Fuzz Volume knob, which the maker says lets you set back the gain, and it also responds well to dialing back your guitar's volume pot⁴. MusicRadar noted that on the Mini, gain is adjusted using guitar volume⁸.

The Mini Turd Fuzz was limited to 250 units worldwide at its 2017 launch, priced at €179, and shipped in a custom cardboard box with a cotton silkscreened bag, a sticker set and a keychain⁶. The current maker listing carries the same bundled extras and a one-year unlimited warranty, with all units handmade⁴.

Price and availability

The Turd Fuzz has been sold in limited runs since 2016, when the first 50 units were offered for pre-order directly from the Dr. No Effects webpage at an RRP of €209¹. At the 2017 launch, MusicRadar listed it at €209 (about $220), Guitar World put it at $220, and Premier Guitar gave €209/$221⁵³⁷. The current maker listing, as of October 2026, prices it at €283.00 with free worldwide shipping included².

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