Earthquaker Devices Hizumitas Sustainar Fuzz Pedal.

Description

The EarthquakerHizumitas Sustainar Fuzz is afaithful recreation of the Elk BM Sustainar, the go-to distortion pedal for Japanese guitarist Wata. As one third of the genre-bending Japanese experimental band Boris, Wata has made a career or mixing killer riffs, searing melodic leads and controlled walls of feedback for almost three decades.

TheHizumitas delivers crushingly heavy distortion and fuzz tones with a smooth sustain and an underlying grit that sounds like the speakers are about to blow up! With incredible clarity and note definition, theHizumitas is dynamic and versatile and responds to your playing excellently. Featuring an all-analogue signal path and true bypass circuitry, the Hizumitas is aggressive, yet articulate and is guaranteed to add auniquely different dimension to your setup.

Controls

The Sustain control has a wide range of saturation, meaning even small changes will significantly affect the overall tone. Hizumitas responds excellently to all types of pickups and playing dynamics. Your power chords will sound huge and heavy, while open chords will be dynamic with fantastic note separation, and single note leads will come across smooth and powerful, especially with the neck pickup.

The Tone control can drastically change the character of the distortion in conjunction with the tone. Bass frequencies are boosted clockwise, and treble frequencies are boosted counter clockwise. The tone control can go from an aggressive mid-range grind to piercing highs as you turn it anti-clockwise. As you turn it clockwise, the mids become less present, the highs are tamed, and a humongous, thundering low end comes to the forefront. The Volume control offers massive output gain with unity at around 9-10 o’clock and beyond that, prepare to hear and feel the power ofHizumitas!

Features

Faithful sonic recreation of Wata from Boris crushing go-to fuzz: the Elk BM Sustainar
Offers loads of heavy distortion and smooth sustain with an underlying grit
Excellent response to different pickup types and playing dynamics
Unique Tone and Sustain controls greatly impact the distortions character
Offers plenty of output Volume – unity is around 9-10 oclock; everything above that is set to destroy
All-analog signal path
True bypass
Silent relay-based switching
Powered by regular 9 V DC PSU (centre -, 2,1 mm, ~10 mA current draw)