ThorpyFX and Origin Effects collaborate on new Folked Up Fuzz Pedal and Capo - developed to greatly extend the output range of the humble Acoustic Guitar

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For the first time - the two Titan UK Pedal Builders combine forces to elevate the simple accousic guitar into a more vibrant era. We’ve had little evolution of the acoustic guitar since the emergence of the eclectic finger-style players like Mike Dawes.

The mission here was to make the acoustic guitar as exciting as an electric - by imbuing it with the science of wood resonant frequencies - where the properties of Rosewood and Mahogany proved to be particularly suitable for those types of guitars.

We have a whole new class of Wood-based Clipping Dowels which lend this fuzz its extraordinary tones. The Rosewood and Mahogany Clipping Dowels / Diodes render very different results - and you get access to both. You have 4 core parameter you’re able to adjust : Level, Fuzz, Capo, and Wood.

The Custom Capo is an important element here - as it delivers different wood resonances and octave up tones - depending where it’s placed on the fretboard - it also demarcates those resonant fuzz tones from the fundamentals. The Capo has very unique hardwood bumpers which render upper octave resonance.

Controls - Level, Fuzz (Gain / Intensity), Capo (amount of Transposition), Wood (Resonance / Signal Density) - Soft > Hard, Clipping Dowels : Rose (Rosewood) / Mahg (Mahogany), Left Capo Footswitch activates Transposition, Right On Footswitch activates main Fuzz.

The process of ’working’ those Wooden Clipping Dowels is ever so challenging - with incredibly few working devices having been able to be fully and properly calibrated. Such that the small number of pedals ’Thorigin’ were able to create will likely be raffled - as the fairest way to give the widest access to this rare pedal.

Even though the Thorigin Effects partnership has just been announced - it’s a well guarded industry secret - that they’ve been working together on this project for a few years now. Incredibly engineers from each company discovered those Resonant Clipping Properties at near enough exactly the same time - so it made ultimate sense for the two sides to collborate - to join forces and share resources. John from Origin and Thorpy from ThorpyFX both admit that this pedal could not have become a reality without the participation of the other party.

You need to slightly suspend belief on the workings of the Resonant Custom Capo - which uses a securely guarded hardwood to induce additional string resonance - which is needed for the full force of the Folked Up Fuzz!

As mentioned, very few of this pedal have been made - and they will most likely be auctioned - with ThorpyFX and Origin Effects generously donating the proceeds of the Raffle to Cancer Research UK!

Here below is an enlargement of the part of the circuit that features the Rosewood and Mahogany Dowels - those are incredibly sensitive to outside influences - and someone’s oily fingerprints may be enough to somewhat compromise the output function of those unique devices - so if you open the back of the pedal - be careful not to touch the Dowels!