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There is a fuzz out
there, friends,
unlike anything else
in the tome of fuzz,
and its name is the
SRS EQ Exciter.
Only one single specimen is known to exist, and not one thing is known
about SRS, any individual engineers, or anything else. It’s as if the
gods of fuzz hand-delivered the EQ Exciter unto this earth and then
skipped town, content to let only the most blessed warriors seek its
spoils. Thankfully, the unit found its way into the hands of the excellent
Tonemachines blog and not into the closet of someone unappreciative
of such pedal minutiae.
However, “minutiae” seems like it’s doing the EQ Exciter a disservice,
as if it is but one molecule of common fuzz, cast into the ether amongst
millions of others. Unlike so many pedals of the late ‘70s, the EQ Exciter
is not a clone of a Fuzz Face or a Big Muff. Unlike its contemporaries,
the EQ Exciter is a unique circuit, and oddly enough, the apex of its
uniqueness lies within its ambiguously named EQ control. In keeping
tradition with the series of misnomers written on the pedal, the EQ
control isn’t an EQ control at all—it’s more like a deep filter sweep
much in the vein of an era-appropriate synthesizer. Aside from that,
the EQ Exciter is a deceptively named balls-out, thick and throaty fuzz
that would have likely blown audiences away with its harmonically-rich,
bottom-heavy sound. Trust me, this thing can make a Telecaster sound
like an audience-evaporating doom-soaked antimatter cannon, but it
plays nice on the high strings as well.
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