Description
Description
Our CME Exclusive Caroline Shigeharu Fuzz features germanium diodes in the octave circuit, which provide a more woody and raspy tone than the standard Shigeharu. Caroline went even further for this unit. They studied the original green bubble font IC fuzz to capture that tone and vibe more accurately. Finally, it comes with a CME Exclusive silver paint job with a nod to the Chicago flag's six-pointed star!
Using a cascading hybrid of op-amp and BC184 transistor gain stages, Shigeharu provides all the sweet singing sustain and massive flamethrower gain you crave, but with unprecedented clarity, improved punch and definition, and consistent performance wherever it sits in your signal chain – even after buffers or wireless units. Combine that with the parallel octave-up voiced fuzz available on demand with the Havoc* stomp and you have a whole lot of nasty right here.
Two extra controls reside inside the pedal – a bias/gate control for dialing up broken, spitty sounds, and a slide switch that locks the octave-up “on” and converts the momentary to a kill/mute switch. Shigeharu™ was designed in collaboration with our friend John Snyder at Electronic Audio Experiments, because this thing was fearsome enough to compel us to seek a second opinion.