Cunningham Amps Dual Range Fuzz (NOS Telefunken BC108 Silicon Transistors)
A hand-wired Tone Bender with a built-in footswitchable boost — built one at a time in New Zealand by Tim Cunningham. Welcome back to Edge of Breakup.
In this episode the Cunningham Amps Dual Range Fuzz takes center stage — running into my Nash S63 Stratocaster with Lollar Pickups and Emerson Treble Bleed, into the Benson Amps Monarch and Benson 2x12" cabinet via the Boss Waza Tube Amp Expander with the Benson Tall Bird for tube reverb.
The Dual Range Fuzz is based on Cunningham's MK 1.6 circuit and takes it further by adding an additional boosted fuzz mode that can be fine-tuned for extra gain and volume. Available in Germanium, Silicon, or a Hybrid model featuring one of each transistor — all high-quality NOS devices, hand-selected and tested in each individual circuit.
The circuit is built on a hand-etched board with the highest quality components and obsessive attention to detail. Each pedal is built by hand, one at a time, and individually voiced to optimize its specially selected pair of transistors — no two pedals are exactly the same.
Four controls across two footswitches. The fuzz side: Attack (fuzz gain) and Level (output, from subtle to sonic destruction). The boost side: its own Gain and Volume knobs, footswitchable independently — set the pedal up for two quite distinct tones, or add just a touch of extra grunt to your rhythm tone for lead work. There's also a Boost Low Cut switch which shaves off bottom end when in Boost mode and Gain is fully cranked — up position gives full range fuzz, down position reduces bass response for extra cut in the mix.
Raising the Level hits the input of your amp harder and interacts with tube preamp stages to produce beautiful overtones and a wide range of overdrive and distortion tones through to raging fuzz. The guitar volume knob cleanup — especially with the stacked boost and fuzz both active — is the discovery moment of this demo.
🎛️ Cunningham Amps Dual Range Fuzz: https://www.cunninghamamps.co.nz
🎸 Nash Guitars S63: https://nashguitarsusa.com
🎸 Lollar Pickups: https://www.lollarguitars.com/lollar-pickups
🔊 Benson Amps: https://www.bensonamps.com/guitar-amplifiers
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🎸 Nash S63 | Lollar Pickups | Emerson Treble Bleed
🎛️ Cunningham Amps Dual Range Fuzz | NOS Germanium | MK 1.6 + Boost | Hand-Etched Board
🔊 Benson Amps Monarch | Benson Tall Bird | Boss Waza TAE | Benson 2x12"
Recording: Universal Audio Apollo x4 | 2x Royer Ribbon Mics + SM57 on cab | Ableton Live
