GIANT HOGWEED
Octave Up/Down Fuzz
The main dirt circuit of the Giant Hogweed uses a single op amp in a topology similar to a RAT. A secondary octave up/down circuit can be switched on and will be mixed with your dry signal before hitting the gain stage.
Under the hood
Octave up / down
The individual volume controls for the octaves define how much (if any) of each gets mixed in.
Texture
The Texture control allows you to mis-bias the chip and introduce gated sounds and texture. This imbalance of headroom also allows you to clean up the dirt with the guitar’s volume control, even with buffered pedals before it, so it can be placed pretty much anywhere in the signal chain.
Tone & Mids
The tone is a “BMP” style control that pans from bass to treble. Mids adds, well, mids.
Analog tracking
As these are analog octaver circuits, they track single notes fine but get messy with chords. You may like that mess though.
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