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Do you ever wonder to yourself, "Why do boutique pedals cost so much?" You've probably bought one and received it and although everybody raved about it, it wasn't that great.  I make Smoking Heart Designs pedals and I happen to think they're pretty good.  And the price isn't too bad to boot.

The Fuzz O Loop.  A great sounding Fuzz Face clone with a cool switchable feedback loop inside.   eBay link
 
I understand your concerns when shopping for pedals.  You want one that sounds good, is well made, and you want to know that the person who made it is not a scam artist and will communicate with you if there are ever any problems.  Have you bought a cool pedal, only to have the builder ignore you? 

Here's what you get with this pedal:

Features:

• Great sounding fuzz, thicker and heavier distortion than a standard silicon Fuzz Face
• Built in switchable feedback loop to make crazy and sick noises
• Tough aluminum enclosure
• Contact info from me, the builder, in case there is a problem and it needs repair
• Made in USA, hand soldered and tested
• Made by electronic tech/engineer, degreed

"Very, very good sounding pedal" "Shipping was incredibly fast and the pedal is exactly as described! Love it!" "Fast shipping, great communication. nasty pedal (in a very good way) A++" "good little pedal, sounds great, thanks for quick shipping A+ and all the rest!!" "Very cool effect. Prompt shipping and excellent eBayer!"

You turn on and off the feedback loop with your foot.  The BFEED control affects the pitch of the feedback.  When you connect a volume pedal(the kind that the signal goes through, not one of the EV-5 or Line6 controller pedals) you will change the pitch without having to bend over and use your hands.  You'll appreciate the crazy amount of sounds you can get with this beast!  Works best with a volume pedal that has approx. 250K Ohm pots in it.

Check out the video below.  It shows the Fuzz part and the feedback part.  At 5:07 I start talking about the feedback part.  Before that is the description of the fuzz and the controls.




Can you see yourself owning this cool pedal? Why not buy this pedal today?  The low prices may not always be this low. 
Simply click on the "Buy It Now" button above.
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People Dig This One...

Cool Ass Ring Modulator Pedal

Just click on this link to see the listing on eBay.

Would you like to expand your tonal palette with a really cool effect, hand built in the USA?

This is the Bumble-Puppy Ring Modulator (named after a kids' game) from Smoking Heart Designs. With it you can move away from normal guitar sounds and effects into a more creative and interesting zone. It sounds really great--compared to other ring modulators it has a very warm and round tone. It has frequency, gain, buzz, and bypass controls. The buzz control(since it's named after a bee) makes the effect sound more fuzzy and ratty and it cuts some low end from the signal. The frequency, gain, and bypass controls work like the typical pedal.

Features:

• Hand made, hand tested
• Built by a degreed electronic technician
• very nice warm sound
• no need to adjust to remove carrier noise, noise is 99% filtered out
• wet/dry signal ratio is set at perfect ratio at the factory, no need to adjust
• uses the most common 9V DC adapter that is found on nearly all pedalboards(negative center terminal)
• Strong metal chassis with lock washers on jacks and pots
• engineered to have super low noise
• input buffer

The video is a demo of the unit working and gives good additional information:

Why not enter a new world of cool tones today?

Just click on this link to see the listing on eBay.

Warranty: Six month free repair of unit if cause of malfunction is not due to user neglect, you ship it back to me and I pay return shipping. Please contact before returning product.

New Pedal--RibBit Bit Crush/Modulator

New Product! Ships within 2 days!

This effect is not for normal people. Of course, you're probably a guitarist--and we aren't normal anyway. Some pretty sick sounds have emerged from this beast, the newest pedal from Smoking Heart Designs.

This is the RibBit, the bit-crushing beast from Smoking Heart Designs. Oh, what will they come up with next? With this pedal you will move away from normal guitar sounds and effects into a more creative and interesting zone. It has frequency, gain, jump, and bypass controls. The jump control(since it's named after a frog) makes additional harmonics and volume come out of the pedal. The gain and bypass controls work like the typical pedal. Frequency adjusts an internal oscillator, but the sound coming out of the pedal does not necessarily vary its frequency directly with the control.

Features:

• Hand made, hand tested, hand soldered
• Built by a degreed electronic technician
• makes lots of weird noises
• uses the most common 9V DC adapter that is found on nearly all pedalboards(negative center terminal)
• Strong metal chassis with lock washers on jacks and pots
• input buffer

I
know what you're thinking: "this doesn't look like much, it looks like
the guy just slapped it together." Or "I'd like to get a
unique/boutique/USA made pedal but I'm not sure about the quality of a
pedal that isn't manufactured by a big company." Both are reasonable questions. As you can see, the pedal is made with care, and this assures you of its quality:

I've
tested this pedal with other pedals, with several types of guitar
pickups, different amplifiers, in different order of pedals. It will
happily accept input from and feed another pedal's input.
I am VERY proud of the work I
have done. There are no DACs or ADCs to dehumanize your signal. It is shielded appropriately to reduce internal noise. My cred: electronic tech, 13 years experience, degree, and B.A. in music to go with.

The video is a demo of the unit working and gives good additional information(the "meat" of the demo, probably the coolest stuff and most accessible sounds start at about 4 minutes, but who am I to judge?) :)

Can you picture yourself owning this neat pedal? Why not buy this cool pedal today?
Simply click on this LINK to complete your purchase.

I now ship to Alaska, Hawaii, and Lower 48 US :) Shipping is $15 to Alaska or Hawaii.

My most popular pedal...

Cool Ass Pedal--Ring Modulator

Would you like to expand your tonal palette with a really cool effect, hand built in the USA?

This is the Bumble-Puppy Ring Modulator (named after a kids' game) from Smoking Heart Designs. With it you can move away from normal guitar sounds and effects into a more creative and interesting zone. It sounds really great--compared to other ring modulators it has a very warm and round tone. It has frequency, gain, buzz, and bypass controls. The buzz control(since it's named after a bee) makes the effect sound more fuzzy and ratty and it cuts some low end from the signal. The frequency, gain, and bypass controls work like the typical pedal.

Features:

• Hand made, hand tested
• Built by a degreed electronic technician
• very nice warm sound
• no need to adjust to remove carrier noise, noise is 99% filtered out
• wet/dry signal ratio is set at perfect ratio at the factory, no need to adjust
• uses the most common 9V DC adapter that is found on nearly all pedalboards(negative center terminal)
• Strong metal chassis with lock washers on jacks and pots
• engineered to have super low noise
• input buffer

The video is a demo of the unit working and gives good additional information:

Why not enter a new world of cool tones today?

Just click on this link to see the listing on eBay.

Warranty: Six month free repair of unit if cause of malfunction is not due to user neglect, you ship it back to me and I pay return shipping. Please contact before returning product.

New Pedal Alert!!

This is the new Smoking Heart Designs pedal, the Fuzz O Loop. It is a Silicon NPN Fuzz Face clone with added features. What added features? Well it has a built in feedback loop that makes the pedal into a crazy noise oscillator machine. And if that weren't enough, you can connect a volume pedal to the control jack and control the feedback loop with the pedal. It affects the pitch, tone, and volume of the feedback.

Features:

• Tough aluminum enclosure
  
• Good quality, not cheap switches
• Made in USA, hand soldered and tested
• Made by electronic tech/engineer, degreed
  
• Great sounding fuzz, thick and juicy
• Makes nasty and sick noises
  

The pedal has a button for turning on the feedback loop. The BFEED control affects the pitch of the feedback. If you connect a volume pedal(the kind that the signal goes through, not one of the EV-5 or Line6 controller pedals) you can change the pitch without even bending over and using your hands. And what a crazy amount of sounds you can get with this beast! Works best with a volume pedal that has approx. 250K Ohm pots in it.

Check out the video below. It shows the Fuzz part and the feedback part. At 5:07 I start talking about the feedback part. Before that is the description of the fuzz and the controls.




Here's the LINK to buy this pedal!

Cool Ass Pedal--Ring Modulator

Would you like to expand your tonal palette with a really cool effect, hand built in the USA?

This is the Bumble-Puppy Ring Modulator (named after a kids' game) from Smoking Heart Designs. With it you can move away from normal guitar sounds and effects into a more creative and interesting zone. It sounds really great--compared to other ring modulators it has a very warm and round tone. It has frequency, gain, buzz, and bypass controls. The buzz control(since it's named after a bee) makes the effect sound more fuzzy and ratty and it cuts some low end from the signal. The frequency, gain, and bypass controls work like the typical pedal.

Features:

• Hand made, hand tested
• Built by a degreed electronic technician
• very nice warm sound
• no need to adjust to remove carrier noise, noise is 99% filtered out
• wet/dry signal ratio is set at perfect ratio at the factory, no need to adjust
• uses the most common 9V DC adapter that is found on nearly all pedalboards(negative center terminal)
• Strong metal chassis with lock washers on jacks and pots
• engineered to have super low noise
• input buffer

The video is a demo of the unit working and gives good additional information:

Why not enter a new world of cool tones today?

Just click on this link to see the listing on eBay. Note: there is the possibility of sometimes running low of stock, in such cases it will be a one week delay before shipping. Otherwise there will be a 2 day period within which I will ship unit to you.

Warranty: Six month free repair of unit if cause of malfunction is not due to user neglect, you ship it back to me and I pay return shipping. Please contact before returning product.

How would you like a cool pedal that isn't quite like everything else out there?

 This is the Smoking Heart Designs RAS-G  RANDOM SLICER-GLITCH pedal.  This is a slicer/signal interrupter with two cycles, each with variable rate.  They are used together to open and close a gate which passes the audio signal.  You can go from slow(about 2 Hz) to a very fast speed that sounds like a very high speed vibrato pedal.  The advantage of having two cycles interfering with each other is the possibility of creating slices of unequal time and patterns that are far more interesting than a regular killswitch type pedal with a constant rate.  In addition, there is an XTRA button, a momentary switch that adds an extra randomness to the already somewhat chaotic slice pattern.  Please check out the video--it tells the whole story.  And it's a very detailed video: the chaos gets rolling at about 1 minute in.

Features:

• Makes the killswitch sound that's popular today, automatically
• Ability to add randomness by simply stepping on a button
• Works great for processing loops or synthy sounds
  
• Very sturdy metal enclosure
• Hand wired and tested
• Made in USA
• Signal path is entirely analog
  
• Uses the most common 9V power supply (negative terminal) found on pedalboards
• Simple to use and understand
• Wide variety of sounds available
  

This can really affect a guitar signal, clean or distorted.  It can kill the beat of a drum machine, basically getting rid of anything resembling a pulse.  It can be used for looping to great effect, the loop pedal being placed before or after this pedal in the signal chain.  Works great with synthy sounds, sequenced sounds, anything repetitive.

I have spent much R&D time here at Smoking Heart Designs to create a pedal that does not cause the unwanted pop and crackle that is usually associated with fast switching of signals.  I am VERY proud of the work I have done--the closest this comes to anything like a pop is when the oscillator is at a fast speed and gives the illusion of the tiniest pops.  NO loud pops, no weird glitches.  The audio path is totally analog, there are no DACs or ADCs to dehumanize your signal.  My street cred:  I'm an underemployed, degreed electronic technician with 13 years experience and a guitarist with a B.A. in music.

I've tested this pedal with other pedals, with several types of guitar pickups, different amplifiers, in different order of pedals.  It will happily accept input from and feed another pedal's input.  There is only a slight high end loss attributable when this pedal is in active mode. 

The pedal uses the most common 9V DC adapter that is found on nearly all pedalboards.  It is the type with a negative center terminal.  This type must be used to avoid damage to the device.  Using the wrong adapter may destroy the effect pedal and will void the warranty.

Why not buy this cool pedal today?  There's not much like it out there!!Link to eBay Listing