…while I wait for my Hot Tubes pedal to arrive, I figured I may as well give a quick review of the Satisfaction Fuzz.

Having obsessed over this one for a few months now, I’ve spent a lot of time reading as many reviews and checking out demos to see if this was worth adding to my collection. People either love it or hate it and I can see why on both sides since this is one unruly little beast. It’s harsh and nasty and brittle, but damned if it doesn’t hit that sweet spot in my brain. There’s been a particular fuzzed-out tone that I’ve been searching for and the Satisfaction is the closest I’ve come to hearing it.

If you take the time to play around with it, you’ll probably get to the same happy place that I did. I’ve checked out the JHS mods for this pedal (which are pretty damn cool), but if I had the spare cash, I’d invest it in the Octavix, which sounds like the next step in achieving fuzz nirvana.