ScreaminFX - Guitar Effects and Boutique Pedals

ScreamingFX is a new guitar effects and boutique pedals project that I am starting. I design all my own circuits! Find your new, original sound! My guitar effects are new circuits that are different than you will find anywhere else. My goal is to bring different custom guitar pedals with big tone to players that are looking for their sound. I have a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and have been working with guitar stompboxes and other electronics for many years. I wanted to let some of my creations loose.

The biggest emphasis is that the pedals you find here will be all analog with no digital whatsoever and I focus on creating new effects pedals. Back to old school, single transistor discrete component circuit design. In addition, I use the highest quality parts and make sure important features such as true bypass are standard. ScreaminFX is a place where you can find some high quality boutique pedals that are truly unique. Stay tuned and sound clips will be here shortly.

Everything here is handmade and I strive for the highest quality. I do everything myself, from designing the circuits to screen printing my own labels on each and every guitar stompbox. These boutique pedals do not exist anywhere else and you will be able to achieve your own tone. I guarantee all the pedals. They aren't in many stores to try out, so if you buy one and its not right, just return it in new condition and I will refund you no problem! I hope you enjoy!

Congrats to Nathan from Dentin, TX! He was picked as the winner for the ScreaminFX drawing and chose the Banshee Boost Pedal! Check out his bands Seryn!!!

Come check the pedals out at the Dallas Guitar Festival from April 20-22! Try out the Banshee Boost and Fuzz Pedals. We are expecting a good response like SXSW where we sold out!

The G-Cast did a cool video review of SXSW which includes ScreaminFX. We are at time 12:47!

Click here to go to their webpage: http://theg-cast.com/

It was really great to meet everyone! Hit me up with emails!

Special thanks to Boice Box pedal boards for providing such an awesome box to display my pedals in. Thanks to Monster cables for a couple of cables that made everything sound better! P3 amplifiers had some solid amps and it was great to meet them! And if you are in the custom keyboard market, check out Infinite Response!

Here are a couple pics of the booth! Check out more SXSW photos on my facebook page! Its me on the left and lawyer Jim on the right!

Congrats to Travis Brown, a local from here in Austin TX. He was picked as the winner of the 1954 Fuzz Pedal!

Congrats to Eric Escanes from Florida, he was picked as the winner for the ScreaminFX Banshee Boost Pedal! Check out his bands electrickif.com and suenalomusic.com!!!

SXSW just posted a cool blog post about our guitar pedals. Check it out here!

Here is a little bit of their post:

ScreaminFX, a new guitar pedal effects company, will demo their line of effects pedals at the Music Gear Expo. With positive reviews already rolling in, these handmade effects pedals are set to create a new standard. And you can check them out for yourself at the free and open to the public Music Gear Expo this March.

Just added a demo video for the 1954™ Fuzz Pedal with Fuzzsafe™ technology. This fuzz pedal sounds awesome with a Wah Wah in front of it which most fuzzes do not. It has a second clean volume boost stage so that even with the fuzz level turned down, you can maintain stage volume. Check out the video for a detailed demo.

Added the new Clarionix™ Guitar Buffer with Fuzzsafe™ technology. The buffer works great to drive long cables and will also work in front of a fuzz so you can use your wah wah with improved dynamic range. Once you click the link, scroll to the bottom for a demo and how to test your rig video.

This is an in detail article all about the differences between germanium fuzz and silicon fuzz pedals. It has some historical information on transistors and explains why some people say silicon fuzz pedals sound harsher.

Its been a long process to get these fuzz pedals how I want them, but they are finally here. There are two to choose from, a more limited production Germanium Fuzz the 1948 Fuzz and a vintage sounding Silicon Fuzz the 1954 Fuzz. They are carefully designed so that they are not harsh or grainy. Both are extremely responsive to pick attack and guitar volume adjustments. Preserve guitar treble tones by using the built in Black Magix™ Buffer. I also added in a volume stage that will allow you to choose low levels of fuzz but maintain your stage volume. Check them out!

1954 Silicon Fuzz - Vintage Sounds

1948 Germanium Fuzz - Get them while they last.

Right now I just completed the Banshee Boost and Tone Pedal. This stompbox sounds awesome and I can't wait to get some more clips up here. It is basically some JFETs that drive passive tone circuitry. The tone circuitry boosts your treble and makes the highs really shine through. I used a nonlinear resonant circuit that adds a slight flavor of pickup type distortion when cranked up. The overdrive on a tube amp this thing provides will make you never turn it off. When I rock out, I use two, one as a heavy overdrive and one as a permanent tone shaping boost circuit.

This is a new article that I put together on when to use a guitar buffer pedal. It starts out with the basics of what a buffer pedal is and then when (and when not) to use one. At the end are some calculations showing how input and output impedance effects your tone.