SABBADIUS
MOSTRO
REVIEW BY YOEL KREISLER
STREET PRICE $250.00
“Sabbadius Custom Shop
Mostro Synthesizer Fuzz
Modulator Inspired by
Dante Spinetta.”Try saying
that mouthful five times
fast. If you can tear your
mind away for a minute
after attempting, allow
me to tell you about an
incredibly unique offering
hailing from Argentina, in
the form of a very modern
fuzz with a nice helping of
vintage character dolloped
on. I have never played a
fuzz like this, and probably
never will again. Let’s try
our hand at this strange
beast of fuzz, and see what
sort of tones we can deal
out of this white box.
The Mostro (you won’t
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catch me trying to say it’s
full name again) is a siliconbased synthesizer fuzz
modulator. It originally
caught my eye because it
has three of my favorite
words in it: synthesizer, fuzz,
and modulator. While it’s
not much of a synthesizer (I
imagine the translation may
have been a little shaky ), it
remains to be quite a cool
fuzz that you players will
be happy to have in their
arsenals. It’s got typical
controls for Output and
Fuzz, but the Mostro heaps
on the weird with the
addition of Bias controls,
and the oddly named Synth
control and Wah Wah Trick
controls. I had to reach out
Sabbadius Mostro
to Mr. Nicolas Sabbadin
himself to get clarification
on these controls, and he
explained to me that the
Wah Wah Trick is meant to
help tame wah pedals with
the use of the fuzz, and if
you’re not using a wah, it
can be a sort of “fizziness
attenuator,” so you can get
the fuzz to act more like
an overdrive. The Synth
Control knob controls the
oscillation of the fuzz when
in “Deform” mode. Lost?
Allow me to explain.
This is a fuzz built for
performance. There are two
switches on the bottom
in addition to the rest of
the knobs (which by the
way, are handmade by Mr.