Salt Box Workshop Spite Box

The Spite Box is a fuzz pedal from Salt Box Workshop, the company's first offering, aimed at both guitar and bass players. Premier Guitar described it as "a unique fuzz for both guitar and bass players" when it was announced in June 2022¹. The pedal combines a complex textured octave preamp with a focused bass boost designed to deliver powerful tones, and it is an all analog circuit design with true bypass switching¹. Damnation Audio's product page lists it as a distortion and fuzz box, marketed under the tagline "Heaviest Fuzz on Earth"².

What it does

The Spite Box stacks two ideas in one box. The first is an octave preamp that Premier Guitar described as "a complex textured octave preamp", sitting ahead of the fuzz to add an upper octave layer to the sound¹. The second is a focused bass boost intended to deliver powerful tones¹.

The pedal's signature control is the DEPTH knob. It is not a straight bass boost: Salt Box Workshop's DEPTH control boosts bass while attenuating muddy frequencies, so the low end gets thicker without the woolly buildup that fuzz pedals often produce on bass¹. That makes it usable on bass guitar as well as six-string, and the maker's page states plainly that it is "Great for Guitar or Bass"².

For a player placing it on a board, it sits among Fuzz Pedals and Distortion Pedals, and bass players browsing Bass Pedals will find its bass-first DEPTH control is the feature that sets it apart from a standard guitar fuzz¹.

Enclosure and availability

The pedal comes in a rugged powder coated and UV-printed enclosure with whimsical salt box-inspired graphics, a nod to the company's name¹. The initial run of Spite Box pedals was available from Salt Box Workshop for $199 + shipping as of the June 2022 announcement¹.

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