Home
The Red Camel
The Red Fish
The Pickle Pie
The Pickle Pie B
Stompbox Store
Testimonials
About
Contact
Wren and Cuff Fine Stompboxes
The Red Camel Fuzz Driver
Straight up distortion with a sound no other can touch.
(Legal stuff: THIS IS NOT A WAY HUGE OR CRAIG ANDERTON PEDAL. I HAVE NO AFFILIATION WITH "WAY HUGE","MR. HUGE", OR THE CRAIG ANDERTON MEMORIAL WHATSOEVER. THE NAMES "WAY HUGE" AND "CRAIG ANDERTON" ARE USED ONLY AS A REFERENCE AND ARE NOT MEANT TO IMPLY ANY AFFILIATION WITH OR CONNECTION TO THEM.)
This is my favorite straight-up overdrive/distortion pedal. I have spent a long time looking for a pedal that can fuzz-out my Strat's bridge pup, let me cut through the band without making anyones ears bleed, and respond to the dynamics of my playing, all while still managing to let my guitar sound like it should and enhancing what is great about my amp. I have found it in this pedal. This is not a bunch of hype, this is the truth.
This pedal is my take on The Craig Anderton TSF/Way Huge Red Llama circuit. I call it The Red Camel out of respect for the no-longer manufactured Way Huge Red Llama. I can't take the credit for coming up with this circuit, but I can build a top-notch, tough as nails, true-bypass version of it (The original Way Huge Red LLama was also hell-a-tough, true-bypass, and top notch)!
This pedal is unlike any other OD, fuzz, or distortion out there, and it is able to fit into all three categories depending on the settings. I'm a die-hard Fender amp guy, but what's cool about this pedal is that when its on, I can get elements of a Matchless, or a Buddha swirled in with my Fender tone. Lots of control from the guitar's volume knob. It really softens up the edges, adds in some low-mids, and gets a very "boutique" sound going, for lack of a better term. When my amp's volume gets cranked up, all these great overtones come out in a very musical way. I'll even get a wicked bit of oct-up that blooms from the Camel especially when I move up the neck.
This is not an "impress the customer at Guitar Center" pedal. The first time I plugged one of these into my practice amp at home I thought it sounded ok but was not blown away. But, as is often the case with pedals that stay on a players board after that "new shine" has worn off, I heard what was great about it by plugging in, and playing at full volume with the band. A true work-horse. During parts of songs in which I usually would kick on a clean boost to push the front end of my amp, I was able to get more gain by simply laying into the strings harder then backing off. Very cool!
According to guitargeek.com, Tom petty has an original Way Huge Red Llama and a TS-9 as his only distortions. I made a Red Camel for a good friend and his words were, "It's like it has the good parts of my Tube Screamer, and the best of my Fuzz Face, but it doesn't sound like either".
Features:
-True-bypass of course!
-Top notch parts including poly film caps, metal and carbon film resistors,.
-Genuine USA-made Davies Dakaware knobs.
-Tough battery clip, shipped with a brand new 9v battery.
-Lock washers on in/out jacks and pots.
-Switchcraft Jacks.
-One year warranty!
Here are some comments about Wren and Cuff:
"What a pedal!! Creamy smooth to nasty, gritty in your face!! I've had all the boutique pedals and if this was lost or stolen I'd pay double for another!!Truly a jem!!
-Danny Jones/The Danny Jones band. After Danny won a Red Fish Octa-fuzz auction of mine, I checked out his site. I knew I had seen his name before, and then I found out he had been featured in Guitar Player Magazine, under the "Mike Varney's Spotlight" column. That was where I'd seen it! http://www.dannyjones.net/
"Great tone, great pedals!"
-Ron Aniello, Producer (and musician) - Life House, Bare Naked Ladies, Leaves
A++Great seller here! Fantastic sounding pedal which won't leave my board.Thanks!
James C., eBay auction (item #120038097416)
Hear It!
On this first sample, I tried to give you a range of tones and different sounds. I left it bare, just the one guitar, no other FX, except a touch of compression. I just meander through different sounds, but I never change the pedal's knobs, all tone changes are done with the guitar's volume knob, and pickup selector (Strat wired stock). Hopefully you'll notice that the Strat's tone is softened up, but it doesn't lose any bite or definition when you dig into the strings.
Red/Blue Camel clip #1
This second one is two guitars doing a blues jam type thing..Middle pickup on the Strat (I'll be putting up some humbucker samples soon!).
Blue Camel clip #2
The samples were recorded through a cranked Fender Champ-style practice amp. Recorded with a shure SM-58 straight into pro-tools. All were done on a 60's strat with CS 54's (single coils). Played with humbucker equiped guitars, The Blue Camel saturates the fuzz a lot more. Please note that the distortion you hear is from the pedal, as well as the amp itself being pushed by the pedal. This pedal has loads of output, so you don't have to get the volume up much to coax an amp into OD.
Also please note the limitations of MP3's, and MP3 players.