JHS Pedals Coyote

Every octave fuzz you’ve ever played traces back to just a handful of circuits: the Octavia, the Super Fuzz, and the Tone Machine. The Coyote doesn’t originate from any of these classic topologies. The Coyote is a complete replication of the obscure and very difficult to find Moonrock Fuzz by G.S. Wyllie, a reclusive North Carolina builder who sandcast his own enclosures, etched his own boards, and designed a unique fuzz utilizing a transformer in an unconventional way that sounds like nothing else — the product of wild experimentation combined with solid electrical engineering.

Here’s what makes it strange: the circuit has a transformer, but it’s not doing what transformers do in other octave fuzzes. It’s not creating the octave at all. Glenn put it somewhere else entirely, where it acts more like an inductive element, shaping how the fuzz stage responds and contributing to the swell, fuzz, and octave character of the control. We’ve never seen anyone do this. The result is a texture and feel that doesn’t exist anywhere else. He never mass-produced them. He passed away in 2014, still building. This is our tribute to Glenn and the wily circuit he left behind.