Malekko Heavy Industries Diabolik

The Malekko Heavy Industries Diabolik is a fuzz pedal built on the company's own B:Assmaster circuit, a design aimed at players who want fuzz that keeps the low end intact. Pedal of the Day's reviewer called it "one of the most adaptive fuzzes on the market"¹. It sits in the wider family of fuzz pedals, and Premier Guitar reviewed it as a bass fuzz².

What it does

The Diabolik is a harmonic analog fuzz derived from the B:Assmaster circuit, which Malekko also offers as its own pedal¹. Two of its controls, Fuzz and Clean, are "developed straight from the original circuit," according to Pedal of the Day's review¹. The Fuzz control adjusts the level of just the fuzz signal, with no effect on the clean signal, which the reviewer noted is useful for blending¹.

Controls

What reviewers said

Pedal of the Day's reviewer highlighted the pedal's low-end response: "My favorite feature, however, is the fact that it allows a lot of low-end to pass through!"¹ That trait is a large part of its appeal for bass players, and Premier Guitar reviewed the pedal in that context as the Diabolik Bass Fuzz².

Premier Guitar's reviewer also noted the pedal's size and build: "the rugged blue and pink chassis doesn't take up much more space than a bar of soap"². RockBoard's PedalPedia likewise lists the pedal as a Malekko product³.

The B:Assmaster connection

The Diabolik's circuit comes from the B:Assmaster, a harmonic fuzz design from Malekko Heavy Industry that Delicious Audio describes as a hand-built pedal⁴. Players who want the original circuit can look at the B:Assmaster itself, while the Diabolik carries that design into a compact enclosure¹.

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