Benson Amps has teamed up with Deep Sea Diver guitarist Jessica Dobson for the brand new Deep Sea Diver Fuzz-Echo. Which given its name, you can guess what it does.
“When Benson first asked me what I wanted out of a pedal, I asked if he could smash together my favorite fuzz tones and vintage echos,” Dobson stated.
“One of my favorite pedal configurations has always been running my echos & delays before my dirt pedals to get unorthodox sounds. So, we started there and it morphed into a pedal than became bigger and wider than what we initially had imagined.”
The Deep Sea Diver Fuzz-Echo is a very tweaked silicon three-transistor fuzz variant with two main controls (bias and gate) that cover a wide range of sounds from aggressive treble booster to thick, dark textured fuzz to the gated skronky sounds often found in the Deep Sea Diver discography.
The echo is from a tweaked data-sheet PT2399 that is perfectly tuned to the fuzz side and has the standard time, feedback and level (echo) controls. Holding down the footswitch will send the echo into sustained feedback at some settings, which, in conjunction with a short delay time, is a sound that can be found all over Deep Sea Diver records.
One unique feature of the Fuzz-Echo is the ability to change the fuzz and echo orders. This is done by powering the pedal on while the footswitch is depressed. The LED will be green if fuzz is before echo, and orange if echo is before fuzz.
