Fuzz Imp Shroot II (Deluxe) Overdrive

The Fuzz Imp Shroot II (Deluxe) Overdrive is an overdrive pedal from the small builder Fuzz Imp, designed by Justus, who Pedal of the Day notes "has been at it for a while now"¹. It is an "amp in a box" style dirt pedal, meaning it is voiced to sound like a cranked amplifier rather than a separate distortion stage, and it sits in the same family of pedals as the ones covered on our Overdrive Pedals page¹.

Pedal of the Day called it "A stellar 'amp in a box' style dirt pedal" and asked, rhetorically, "what more do you need from an overdrive pedal??"¹. A later Pedal of the Day piece on a Fuzz Imp pedal summed up the brand's approach, saying its pedals "not only look rad and feature a beloved TV character, but have some real meat to it when you turn it on"².

The five controls: Bears, Beets, B.S.G, Kick and Punch

The Shroot II carries five controls, each named with a nod to The Office and Battlestar Galactica. Here is what each one does¹:

The two EQ controls are what set the Deluxe version apart from a straightforward gain, tone and volume overdrive. Pedal of the Day described the "Kick (Low) and Punch (Mid) EQ controls, letting you dial in a wide range of unique tones"¹. In practice, that means you can shape the low and mid content of the pedal independently of the tone control, which is useful for matching the pedal to different guitars and amps.

Overdrive or fuzz?

Despite the Fuzz Imp name, the Shroot II is an overdrive, not a fuzz. Pedal of the Day reviewed it as an overdrive pedal and characterized it as an amp-in-a-box style dirt pedal¹. If you are after the saturated, compressed character of a fuzz instead, our Fuzz Pedals page covers that family, and our Distortion Pedals page covers the harder-clipping middle ground.

Documentation

Fuzz Imp hosts the Shroot II product page, including its documentation, at fuzzimp.com/product/shroot-ii¹.

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