Product Overview
From the manufacturer:
From the EHX website
“Originally designed by Josh Scott of JHS Pedals and graphic designer, Daniel Danger as a homage to Electro-Harmonix in what Josh and Daniel consider the company’s design heyday of the 1970s, the EHX Lizard Queen Octave Fuzz is a nano-sized version of the pedal brought to life by the engineers at Electro-Harmonix that has all of the tones and vibes of the original circuit design by Josh. The tone is inspired by EHX’s fuzz pedigree with a unique analog octave up circuit that has all the vibe of the original design first featured on the JHS Show in 2022. This creates a completely new and unique EHX fuzz sound we’ve never heard before. To further tell the tale, the pedal is adorned with vintage EHX-inspired graphics designed by Daniel.”
But, of course, the Lizard Queen™ is well documented as a mashup of two popular DIY circuits. Namely, the Bazz Fuss and Tim Escobedo’s Push Me Pull You. And, it does make for a great combo: a gnarly sounding fuzz with a decent octave up. This is a must for DIY fuzz lovers! The Freeloader adds two mods: the Scorch switch and an optional volume reduction resistor to tame the considerable output of the Lizard Queen™.
Controls
• LVL: Total effect output.
• BAL: Fuzz amount.
• OCT: Adds a slight octave up to single notes when turned CW.
• SCORCH: The down mode is stock. The up mode swaps the biasing diode of Q1 from a 1n914 to an LED. This subtle change adds a bit more aggression and attack to single notes when the BAL control is set low. It has little to no effect when the BAL control is full up.
Further study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn7j2QPRHz4
