Product Overview
At its core, the Fender Shields Blender echoes the tone of Shields' own vintage 1970s Fender Blender, thanks to carefully hand tracing the circuit from his personal fuzz box. Built around this vintage circuit are entirely new ways of controlling and blending the original fuzz voice, all crafted with performance in mind utilizing four easy-access footswitches. Two foot-switchable channels of fuzz, each with dedicated level controls, offer the ability to blend the fuzz voice with your clean signal or to blend the fuzz voice with a beefy suboctave fuzz, while the sag footswitch introduces sputtering and ducking effects like never before heard, all controlled by the intensity of your playing dynamics.
An innovator and pivotal influence on effect-laden guitar tones, Kevin Shields awakened iconic sonic walls of fuzz like the world had never heard as he defined the tone of alternative rock in the '80s and '90s. His tool of choice for fuzz-laden chaos: an original Fender® Blender effect pedal, prized for its dynamic response and gripping fuzz splatter. Now, through over four years of co-development Fender and Shields have resurrected this mythical 1970's fuzz and injected a subversive feature set, creating the all-new Fender Shields Blender.
At its core, the Fender Shields Blender echoes the tone of Shields' own vintage 1970s Fender Blender, thanks to carefully hand tracing the circuit from his personal fuzz box. Built around this vintage circuit are entirely new ways of controlling and blending the original fuzz voice, all crafted with performance in mind utilizing four easy-access footswitches. Two foot-switchable channels of fuzz, each with dedicated level controls, offer the ability to blend the fuzz voice with your clean signal or to blend the fuzz voice with a beefy suboctave fuzz, while the sag footswitch introduces sputtering and ducking effects like never before heard, all controlled by the intensity of your playing dynamics.
FEATURES
- Original vintage Fender circuit combined with an all-new control set
- Two channels and three octaves of blendable, analogue fuzz tones
- Footswitchable, reactive voltage sag circuit controlled by picking dynamics
- Custom 1970s-inspired roadworthy chassis with top-mounted jacks
- True-bypass switching
- Powered by 9-Volt Battery or centre negative AC adaptor, not included
- 100kΩ
- 15kΩ
- 80mA
- 9-Volt Battery or 9VDC Centre Negative AC Adapter (not included)
DESIGNED AROUND A CLASSIC
Designed around Kevin Shields' original Fender Blender circuit, with his added tweaks, the Fender Shields Blender adds an Octave-Up push button to toggle the original octave-up fuzz voice on and off, unlocking all-new vintage fuzz tones.
TWO FOOT-SWITCHABLE CHANNELS
The Octave Footswitch toggles between two channels of fuzz. Channel One blends the fuzz voice with the original clean signal. Channel two removes the clean signal and instead blends the fuzz with a monophonic suboctave fuzz.
BLENDABLE FUZZ
Use the Volume and Blend knobs to set the right balance of clean and fuzz signals to create unique crisp tones, then use the Fuzz and Octave knobs to craft the right mix of double, or triple, octave fuzz.
REACTIVE SAG CIRCUIT
The revolutionary sag circuit uses dynamic sensing circuitry to create imploding fuzz tones. By starving the transistors of power relative to the picking intensity used by the player, you can harness controlled chaos like no other fuzz.
VINTAGE STYLE, MODERN APPOINTMENTS
Just like its predecessor, the Fender Shields Blender sports an angled, brushed aluminium chassis with vinyl appointments, while new additions like LED indicators and a 9V DC power jack provide modern convenience.
PERFORMANCE READY FOOTSWITCHES
An unprecedented four footswitches provides a wealth of fuzz tone and effects on tap, whether performing on stage in front of millions or recording in your home studio.
