ReverbFuzzbox is a love letter to the joy of playing guitar through pedals. Pedals are weird little metal and plastic magical boxes full of wires and diodes and transistors, circuits that I have no idea how or why they work (I don’t understand electrics? Electronics? Whatever this is…).
You plug your guitar into the pedal and then your amp. When you stamp on the little footswitch on the pedal, and play with the knobs, dials, flick switches, it changes the sound of your guitar.
My favourite pedals are reverb and fuzz. Reverb makes you sound like you’re playing in a hall or a cavern or a church and everything sounds huge and ethereal. Fuzz makes you sound like you’re playing with live electricity and grit and sandpaper and excitement claustrophobia.
Play both at the same time, reverb plugged into fuzz, and you can hear the fuzzbox straining to squeeze and constrain all the expanse and aura and heavenly echoes into a tiny metal box, grating at the raw edges of the circuit board, forced through the copper cabling and output jacks, like an accordion, like a food blender, like a paper shredder. And it sounds incredible. Like Music. Like Energy. Alive.
I make pedalgazing videos – ambient / lofi / fuzzy noise that shows off the weirdness of the pedal and in shoegazey style – think my bloody valentine, J&MC, Lush, or Sonic Youth.
Jamie Woods writes this site, draws the pictures, plays the guitars on the videos, and tweaks the pedals. He lives in Cymru / Wales in the UK. Musically, poetically, and generally speaking, what he lacks in technique, he makes up for in enthusiasm.
You can get in touch with him on email at pedalgaze @ gmail . com
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