Fuzzrocious Pedals Fuzzrocious Feed Me

The Fuzzrocious Feed Me is an analog EQ pedal from Fuzzrocious Pedals, the company of builder Ryan Ratajski¹. Rather than the fixed bass and treble knobs of a conventional equalizer, it uses four rotary switches loaded with components to set a pair of filters, and it adds an active boost stage and a tone knob, which is why it needs external 9V power². Delicious Audio described it on its introduction as "an EQ/preamp/tone shaper with level boost potential that applies a blend of high and low pass filters to your signal"¹.

The Feed Me's enclosure is screenprinted and powdercoated locally by JuxtaPrints³, and reviewers have found the pedal "Endlessly useful"³².

What it does to your sound

The Feed Me shapes tone by stacking two filters. Delicious Audio reported that it "applies a blend of high and low pass filters to your signal," and called the result "this original five knob EQ circuit opens up a lot of tonal possibilities"¹. In practice that means you can cut bass to tighten up a muddy rig, cut treble to tame brightness, or set both to carve a focused midrange band, and then use the active boost stage to push the level back up²¹. Because the boost stage and tone knob are active circuitry, the pedal cannot run passively, which is why a 9V supply is required².

The controls

The control surface is unusual. Premier Guitar's review describes the core of it²:

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Each switch clicks through twelve positions, and each position selects a different component value².

With twelve positions on each of the four switches, the two filter sections can be set independently: the left pair determines how much bass is removed and where the cut happens, while the right pair rolls off treble. That gives a large number of fixed EQ curves rather than the continuously variable sweep of a typical graphic or parametric EQ, and each setting is repeatable because the switches click into defined positions².

Power: 9V, no battery option

Players building a pedalboard around this pedal should plan on a 9V output on their power supply. Feed Me has no battery option, and because it includes an active boost stage and tone knob, a 9V power supply is required².

Where it came from

The enclosures are screenprinted and powdercoated locally by JuxtaPrints³.

What reviewers said

Premier Guitar reviewed the pedal and summed up its verdict in two words²:

The reviewer's overall verdict on the pedal was short: "Endlessly useful"².

Not to be confused with the Anasounds Feed Me

A second, unrelated pedal shares the name. The French maker Anasounds sells a fuzz pedal called the Feed Me, a DIY kit inspired by what the maker describes as "this famous circular fuzz pedal from the 60's, modified by Roger Mayer," a Fuzz Face style circuit using BC108 silicon transistors⁴⁵⁶. Anasounds describes it as known for its richness and highs, capable of powerful fuzz but also very warm cleans when you roll back the guitar's volume, with bias settings for velcro or gated fuzz tones⁷. It is sold in kit form, including a full kit at 119,00 €⁸. If you are searching for the Fuzzrocious EQ pedal and keep landing on a fuzz kit, that is the Anasounds product, not the Fuzzrocious tone shaper covered on this page.

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