The Queen Bee is a fuzz pedal from Fulltone, listed on the maker's fuzz range as the "Queen Bee"1. It is a germanium design: Guitar Pedal X's Stefan Karlsson, covering it among new fuzz pedals for 2020, described it as using three Russian germanium transistors, with the transistor references filed off2.
Controls
The pedal carries four controls, which Karlsson described as "including 4 controls - Level, Buzz, Treble and a 3-way Min/Half/Max Bass Boost toggle-switch."2
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Level | Output level |
| Buzz | Fuzz amount |
| Treble | Treble adjustment |
| Bass Boost toggle | Three-way Min/Half/Max bass boost switch2 |
Volume knob cleanup
The feature Guitar Pedal X singled out is how the pedal responds to the guitar's volume control. As Karlsson put it: "The key magic here is really in the degree of cleanup via your guitar's volume knob - where you can get all sorts of dif"2. In practice that means rolling the guitar volume back takes the pedal from a heavily textured fuzz toward cleaner tones, the kind of touch sensitivity players often look for in a germanium fuzz.
Price and availability
Guitar Pedal X listed the Queen Bee at $238 USD, with a UK figure of £249 GBP, in its December 2020 roundup of new fuzz pedals2. The pedal appears in Fulltone's own fuzz collection on the maker's site1.
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Sources (2)
- Queen Bee, Fulltone USA
- Guitar Pedal X, Guitar Pedal X, 2020-12-18
