Iron Ether Oxide

Bass Fuzz

The Oxide is a morphing gated fuzz, allowing the user to seamlessly morph between a raucous, industrial octave fuzz inspired by the Maestro Bass Brassmaster, to a modern synthy fuzz with a pinched, gated sound. It includes a clean blend to allow extreme amounts of fuzz without losing low end.

Controls:

Drive amount: This controls how hard the transformer is driven. At low levels, the signal is rectified (folded over on itself) generating octave up harmonics, ideal for thickening a bass or guitar. As Drive is increased, the sound becomes further saturated, generating higher-order harmonics.

Morph: This control changes the response of the fuzz in several different ways. Towards the right, the dynamics are more open and sustain for longer. Towards the left side of the dial, the sound becomes increasingly gated and the dynamics more compressed. The harmonic content also shifts - to the right will be more rounded, smoother waveforms, and decreasing Morph from center, the pulse width will narrow from a thick square wave to a sizzly narrow pulse. Note that the response of the Morph control will depend on the level of the signal you put into the pedal, as well as the Drive amount.

EQ: Progressively cuts high frequencies, while leaving mids and bass flat.

Fuzz level: Controls the volume level of the fuzzed signal in the final mix.

Clean level: Controls the volume level of the clean signal in the final mix. Note that this clean blend, unlike those of other Iron Ether pedals, is transistor-based and inspired by vintage designs, and is therefore not ultra-clean. It has a slightly gritty sound and can be overdriven. This can work like a dirty boost if the Fuzz level is turned down all the way, and also warms the clean signal up just enough that it doesn't sound like stacked voices but one unified sound.

Voice switch: Switches the post-fuzz filtering between two different voicings. One has a soft mid-scoop, the other is a pronounced vocal-like mid-boost.

Strangle switch: Cuts low frequencies in front of the fuzz, allowing only the high frequencies to be fuzzed. Blending in the clean while using this mode allows for clean bass with fuzzed harmonics.