Seymour Duncan: Lava Box

I'm definitely not a keen fuzz fan namely due to the effect's blurring of the lower frequencies which makes bass notes chugging very unappealing (especially when you play metal). However, the fuzz fanatic would advocate the effect's cream capacity if employed with the right guitar ala Hendrix, but we each have our own preferences. When it comes to drive, I prefer clarity hence my inclination towards intense type distortion but my primary employment would be the amp's onboard drive; this I prefer.

Seymour Duncan's Lava Box is indeed the very few fuzz units which makes me smile because it is different than the average blur fuzz pedal out there- some of the 6 preset voicings on offer contain enough clarity for fans of the distortion effect per se. The default gain on offer has sufficient intensity to appease hard music fans. It also offers gratifying results when used as a booster unit primarily in conjunction with the amp's dirt.

Purists would underscore the pedal's contemporary presets' inability to conjure that sacred fuzz tone which would make Eric Johnson proud but that direction has its own breed of champions-a Fuzz Face/ Big Muff this pedal is not.