One of my Top Fuzz Faces Ever! | Mythos Pedals Joey Landreth High Road Fuzz

Mythos Pedals Joey Landreth High Road Fuzz

One knob. Silicon soul. And a philosophy that puts the fuzz back where it belongs — in your hands. Welcome back to Edge of Breakup.

In this episode, the Mythos Pedals Joey Landreth High Road Fuzz takes center stage — running into my Kauer Guitars Electroliner loaded with Lollar Sixty-Four Stratocaster pickups, into my 1957 Fender Tweed Princeton 5F2-A with a 12" speaker.

The High Road is Zach Broyles' second collaboration with Joey Landreth — designed to accompany the release of Joey's single "Forgiveness" and born from a very specific tonal request. Joey wanted the focused, immediate, slightly high-biased spitty character of the best vintage silicon fuzzes — but with the reliability and consistency of a modern build. Zach delivered. The High Road is a modification of Mythos' own Golden Fleece Fuzz circuit — itself already a deeply considered silicon fuzz design — tuned specifically for Joey to deliver a more focused sound with a more immediate and brighter attack, as opposed to the wooly, compressed feel of the standard Fleece. The result is a fuzz that sits at an addictive intersection: vintage silicon clarity and spank on one end, glorious full-on fuzz destruction on the other, with everything in between controlled entirely by your guitar's volume and tone knobs.

That's the philosophy at the center of the High Road, and it's one of the most honest things a fuzz pedal designer can do: trust the player. The single Output control sets your overall volume, and from there your guitar's volume knob does all the work. Backed off to around 7 or 8, the High Road breathes — sparkling cleans with just a touch of snarl, intimate and touch-sensitive. Dimed, it opens into full-on spitty, high-biased, gloriously raw silicon fuzz with focus and midrange character that cuts without tearing. As Zach himself puts it: "the fuzz lives in your guitar." He's right.

One honest caveat worth knowing: the High Road is a clone of an incredibly simple vintage fuzz circuit, and like those originals it is sensitive to your rig and power situation — and yes, it can pick up radio, just like the classics. If you want absolute clarity and isolation, this is not your pedal. If you want something alive, reactive, and deeply connected to your hands and your guitar, this is exactly your pedal.

Into a 5-watt, single 6V6, Class A tweed Princeton circuit and the pre-CBS Alnico clarity of Lollar Sixty-Four single coils, the High Road finds a natural, musical home. The sensitivity and touch responsiveness that the tweed circuit rewards is exactly what this fuzz demands from a player. The fuzz really does live in the guitar — and in a rig this honest, you hear every nuance of it.

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🎸 Kauer Guitars Electroliner | Lollar Sixty-Four Stratocaster Set

🎛️ Mythos Pedals Joey Landreth High Road Fuzz | Silicon | Limited Edition

🔊 1957 Fender Tweed Princeton 5F2-A | 12" Speaker