El Rey Lucha Fuzz

The El Rey Lucha Fuzz is a fuzz pedal. It follows a wrestling theme: the three knobs carry lucha libre names, while the functions underneath are the familiar gain, tone and volume of a straightforward fuzz circuit¹.

Controls

"Three knobs control the Lucha Fuzz: Gain (grapple), Tone (headlock), and Volume (pile driver)."¹

What it sounds like

Werner described two contrasting settings as the pedal's poles: "Max the grapple knob with the headlock knob all the way down for soulful darkness that growls menacingly, reverse those parameters for impressive dry grit"¹. In other words, gain up with the tone rolled back gives a dark, growling fuzz, while low gain with the tone wide open yields a drier, grittier character.

On the low end, his verdict was direct: "The Lucha Fuzz does not compromise the low end of your sound." He found it keeps the body full and warm without any volume drops and without any presence drop in the low end¹. For bass players or guitarists who run fuzz into a clean amp, that fullness is the detail worth noting.

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