ZVex Machine

www.ProGuitarShop.com-The ZVex Machine is a unique animal in a world of dime-a-dozen fuzz and distortion pedals. Zachary Vex invented the Machine specifically to be used in conjunction with other fuzz and distortion pedals. Have you ever ran two distortion boxes together, or ran a fuzz box into an already-distorted amp? Often times cool results are had, but you frequently lose detail and tonal qualities and end up with something less than what you were hoping for. The Machine exists to cure that problem.

With the Z.Vex Machine for the first time in history crossover distortion was built into a guitar pedal circuit. The net effect of this design, without getting too deeply into electronics geekery, is that while your guitar signal is traveling from pickups to speaker there are spots where normally not much is going on. It is in these parts of the signal path that Machine does its thing, generating distortion in the sloped parts of the wave rather than in the peaks and valleys like standard issue stompbox guitar distorters. Hence, it is extremely complimentary when used in conjunction with your other favorite pedals.

The Machine is basically a hideous sounding pedal on its own, so to achieve the intended effect you will need to use it before other fuzz boxes. The Machine prefers to see an undistorted guitar signal at its input. Once you plug it in you may never go back. This thing cuts like nobody's business, making your other pedals come to life. Use it with a tremolo pedal in front to hear sweeping frequency multiplier sounds, or put a compressor in front for ringing harmonic effects. It can also be used with other instruments, including bass, drum machines, etc.. for all sorts of interesting and wild tones.

Hand-built and individually hand-painted in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Each one is unique! Factory Warranted against manufacturing defects forever.

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[skateVA]

his clean tones are never clean

[ProGuitarShopDemos]

Low-wattage tube amps are that way.

[hypanova116]

wow were can i get one

[ProGuitarShopDemos]

ProGuitarShop,com

[acrane11]

this tone makes me wanna punch someone in the face and i love it!

[ian2332]

@userboy6 tell that to jack white :P

[lioneatduck]

What a coup by ZVEX! Using "crossover distortion" to make The Machine unlike any other pedal, while simultaneously ensuring nobody else will build one like it, because of how bad it sounds. Consider yourself cornered, market!

[ThirdElexis]

@userboy6 isnt that the point in them?

[userboy6]

not crazy about the zvex stuff, none of it has a commercially profitable sound, IMO.

[willeng84]

This from what I understand is meant to be driven/ fucked up by another pedal....ahhh he just said it. Its supposed to fuck up the other effects and add a crazy texture.

[FingerLickinGravy67]

this is what it must sound like to crank a 100 watter, feed the speaker out to another 100watter on 10, then play them through computer speakers

[groovey65]

MR MOUSTACHE!

[joshsimrak]

GNARLY MACHINE!

[richogem]

@ganjaking187 because its the first pedal in the world to mess around with your mid frequencies maybe?

this is one of the best pedals out there, could make any other pedal get a completly different sound.



[ganjaking187]

@236987451 yeah really, i dont get why these are so much money.