Sitek Guitar Electronics Sitek Fuzzie Fuzz V2

The Sitek Fuzzie Fuzz V2 is a dynamic germanium fuzz pedal from Sitek Guitar Electronics, with an all-analog signal path built from new old stock transistors and a JFET buffer¹. It ships now, priced at $165 in the US and £125 in the UK¹, finished in a powder-coated Champagne Sparkle enclosure and fitted with a DeMont Smooth-Click footswitch¹.

MusicRadar describes the pedal as "designed to offer a wide range of fuzz tones, from vintage breakup to a super-peachy fuzz, rich in harmonics and sustain"¹. In other words, it is not a one-sound box: rolled back it sits near mild distortion territory, and pushed it delivers the saturated, harmonic-rich sustain germanium fuzz is known for.

What it does

The Fuzzie Fuzz V2 is a four-knob germanium fuzz in a compact enclosure, finished in a powder-coated Champagne Sparkle finish and built around a DeMont Smooth-Click footswitch²¹. Its circuit uses new old stock germanium transistors and a JFET buffer in an all-analog signal path¹.

Guitar Pedal X's review notes that the transistors appear to be the same sort of Russian germanium parts found in the Fulltone Queen Bee and Spaceman Sputnik pedals, and frames the control set in familiar terms³:

That comparison tells an experienced player a lot: this is Fuzz Face-style germanium fuzz territory, with the addition of a Texture control that the original Fuzzie did not have, plus a Bias knob for dialing in the transistors' operating point³.

One feature sets it apart from most germanium fuzzes. MusicRadar reports:

Traditional germanium fuzz circuits are sensitive to what feeds them, and many lose their character when placed after a buffer or any buffered bypass pedal. The Fuzzie Fuzz V2's impedance matching circuit allows it to be placed before or after a buffer in the signal path, which is a practical advantage on a modern pedalboard¹.

The controls and signal path

The pedal has four controls, listed by Premier Guitar as "Level, Fuzz, Texture and Bias"². MusicRadar's coverage adds that the enclosure carries the Level and Fuzz controls alongside the new Texture knob¹.

The V2's changes over the original Fuzzie come down to two things in practice: the added Texture control and the improved output level²³. Guitar Pedal X called the Texture/Smoothness control "superb" in its comparison of the two versions³.

The signal path is all-analog, built from new old stock germanium transistors and a JFET buffer, with true bypass switching so the pedal drops out of the chain entirely when off²¹. Power comes from a 9V DC supply or a standard 9V battery²¹.

How it compares

Against other V2 fuzz pedals of its era, the Fuzzie Fuzz V2 sits on the vintage, germanium end of the spectrum. The Haunted Labs Paranormal Fuzz V2, by contrast, is a high-gain filtered silicon fuzz⁴, and the Poison Noises Glutnik Fuzz V2 adds a diode selector for multiple clipping flavors⁵. The Fuzzie Fuzz V2 offers neither silicon-style high gain nor clipping options; its appeal is the smoother, dynamic, harmonic-rich character of germanium, with a Bias knob to tune it.

At launch it was available on Reverb.com and directly from the Sitek Guitar Electronics website².

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