Reuss Big Bender

The Reuss Big Bender is based on the 1970s jumbo tonebender pedal. Soundwise the Big Bender really is BIG. It’s a huge, crisp, full-frequency wall of noise. Like a sharper and more focused muff fuzz. Not bees-in-a-can like some vintage silicon fuzzes. The tone control operates much like a muff tone control.

The vintage Jumbo tonebender design has a pronounced low-end, which makes it much loved by bass players, but I find it a bit too much for guitars, so we added a switchable ‘tight’ mod to the Big Bender, which makes the low-end much less boomy (switchable via DIP-switch inside). I ship the pedal in ‘tight’ mode, because it sounds amazing.

The iconic fuzz sound of Edwyn Collin’s 1990s evergreen ‘A Girl Like You’ was recorded with a vintage Bum Fuzz / Jumbo tonebender, and the Big Bender delivers this sound.