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Players notes - Voltage Starve-able Big M type pedal with dialable boost for pushing the front end of an amplifier. Is tuned to within an inch of it's life to be the most...everything. Massive output on tap, insanely wide EQ sweep, designed to be the dirtiest of dirty. Note clarity in chords is bang on and responds very well to playing dynamics. Lots of fun. It does loads of things that other things do too but we whole heartedly recommend chucking the song book out the window, forgetting everything you think you know about pedals, plugging straight in, and making something new.
We reckon there's no better sound than a sick distortion pedal absolutely smashing the front end of a loud and dirty amp. The Hungry Beaver started out life as one of the sickest pedals going, the venerable "Migbuff Pie". If a Migbuff was a chimp, these thing are Leonardo Da Vinci mate! Drop this nasty Castor onto your pedalboard and you're going to discover things you never knew were possible from this type of circuit. Tight crunching distortions. Sustains that go on for days. Sludgy power doom. Synthy pads. Nasty, spitting growls. Trashy, thrashy, mashed up messes. Sub octaves crawling out from the deep and ring mods raining down from on high. It's hilariously fun.
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Off board Input and Output Jacks & DC Jack
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Off board True Bypass Switching
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High Quality SMD and through hole components
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Fully ISO9001 and RoHS compliant
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Runs on 9v Center Negative (Boss style) power supply​
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Current Draw: 4mA
Separately voiced stacked gain controls. Roughly speaking, on the Hungry Beaver "Meat" is thick and chunky like a modern "NYC" sound whereas "Gravy" is less so with more mids, like a classic 70's "Purple Ram" sound. Because they are stacked you can blend them to your own flavour of pie filling. The dial response is designed to massively open up those "early in the sustain dial" tight distortion tones of a Migbuff while still having all the chunk and fuzz you need at the top end. When the pedal is starved the dials change function. The "Meat" control adjusts the amount of fuzz and the "Gravy" control adjusts the sustain/gate, as far as we can tell. These dials make an awful racket when you turn them, Don't Panic, this is normal. Just hit a chord as you turn them and you should barely notice it.
Starves parts of the circuit of voltage and current to produce a huge range of sounds from full on chunky muffler type sounds to velcro fuzz, gated synth sounds, octaves, splatty nonsense and raucous nastiness. The interplay between this control and the "Meat" and "Gravy" controls is the real heart of this pedal. After about 12 o-clock crank the Meat and Gravy controls and have a play. You may need to add some more volume using the internal boost. Top tip - try stacking notes, 3rd's, 4th's, 5th's to play with what sub octave is generated. Lot's of fun.
Work in conjunction to adjust Treble/Mids/Bass response. The "Tone" control adjusts treble and bass frequencies while shifting the mid scoop position for matching to different amplifiers. The "Mids" control adjusts the depth of the mids from full mid scoop to no mid scoop, sorting out those "in the mix" problems once and for all. Fully to the left is more scooped than these kind of circuits would normally be, even the modern ones, fantastic for synthy tones, fully to the right is reminiscent of a "tone bypass" response, while still retaining the functionality of the tone control.
This dial comes with a warning. This is the LOUDEST pedal you will ever play, but it can be tamed.
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The volume control is in two parts, the external dial and an internal dial. The volume control takes you from volume 0 - 10, while the internal boost control extends the output from 10 - 20 for use as a boost.
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The Hungry Beaver has been designed and voiced to utilise the preamp of your amplifier to achieve that "big gig" crunch and compression that comes from a power amp at full tilt but at much lower volumes, and so can pack a fairly big punch. We've fixed pretty much all of the more traditional problems with these kind of circuits, (tone sucking input, bass filter on volume control, no mids, all or nothing S control) and employed a bunch of original mods to open up opportunity for new "never heard before" guitar tones.​
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There's a plethora of words on the internet used to describe sounds. Rather than bombard you with adjectives we'd recommend you just watch the demo's below. It does a lot.
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For fans of FZZ FCTRY, MIG BUFF, FILTH
*Does not take batteries... stop using batteries you pigs!*
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