Crawl the depths. Unearth your sound.
$99
Crawl the depths. Unearth your sound.
$99
Crawl the depths. Unearth your sound.
BABY GIANT.
Earwig delivers a huge range of thunderously beautiful fuzz sounds, stuffed into the smallest effects pedal on the planet. This pedal may be tiny, but it has more than enough might to invade your ears with ferocious distortion and sustain.
Earwig delivers a huge range of thunderously beautiful fuzz sounds, stuffed into the smallest effects pedal on the planet. This pedal may be tiny, but it has more than enough might to invade your ears with ferocious distortion and sustain.
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Way Small. Big Sound.
We Rethought Everything, Except the Sound.
Inspired by the 1969 Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi*, Earwig shoehorns a giant variety of iconic fuzz sounds into the smallest effects pedal ever created. Roaring distortion, pulverizing crunch, and syrupy sustain—all in a comically small footprint.
Fatten Your Tone With This One Simple Trick.
Earwig utilizes four cascading gain stages, featuring silicon transistors and symmetrical clipping diodes, producing rich sustain and pleasing harmonic distortion. The circuit’s signature tone stack blends treble-boosted and bass-boosted frequencies, yielding an extensive range of versatile fuzz tones. It’s like magic, but it’s actually science.
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HONEY, WE SHRUNK THE PEDALS.
Ridiculous Is Kind of Our Thing.
Earwig gives you beautifully ferocious fuzz tones and luscious sustain in a package that’s nearly as small as a 9-volt battery. Yes, we’re aware that a fuzz pedal this tiny is a bit ridiculous. But by challenging our notions of what an effects pedal has to be, a new world of possibilities opened up that we never expected. Turns out, making it small also makes it pretty awesome.
Go Where No Pedal Has Gone Before.
No matter how little space you have, there’s always room for the colossal fuzz sounds of Earwig. Its small size allows it to be placed where no pedal has gone before. Running out of room on your pedalboard? No need to kick other pedals off your board—Earwig fits in the smallest open spaces in your rig. You can even place it on top of another pedal. Stack ‘em high!
Let’s Get Weird.
An effects pedal this small is weird, but want to get even weirder? Stick Earwig on the side of your guitar. No space left in your Eurorack setup? Drop Earwig right on top of your modular rig. Want a little overdrive for your keys? Place Earwig next to your keyboard’s controls.
Is That a Pedalboard In Your Pocket, Or
Want more sounds than just fuzz and overdrive? Don’t tell anyone, but we’re hard at work on other flavors of tiny pedals, as well as a pedalboard that fits in your pocket. Shhh!
Infrequently asked questions.
Why is it so small?
Why are other fuzz pedals so big? Like, really big?
No really, why is it so small?
We’re aware that an effects pedal this tiny is a bit ridiculous. Much like the story behind our Cicada overdrive, it really did begin with the completely absurd question, “What if we made the world’s smallest fuzz pedal?” What started out as a lark quickly turned into an ambitious engineering exercise to see if it could be done. And we quickly learned that by challenging our notions of what an effects pedal has to be, a whole new world of possibilities opened up that we never expected.
How do I connect to my rig? There’s only one jack?
Earwig features one TRRS jack combining input, output, and power. Earwig comes with a TRRS breakout cable for your connections. Blue is INPUT, red is OUTPUT, and black is POWER. Pro tip: If you’re using Earwig on a Pedaltrain® pedalboard, you can easily hide the breakout cable and your connections under the board.
How do I turn it on?
The whole pedal is the switch. It’s hinged at the top. Press below the knobs to turn it on. Press again to turn it off. Yes you can press it with your foot, even if you step on the knobs.
How hard can I step on it?
Even though Earwig is small, its switch mechanism has been tested to withstand up to 250 pounds of force. That said, we don’t refer to it as a “stomp” box. Don’t press the pedal with all of your weight—a light tap will do the trick.
Why doesn’t it have sides?
What’s included in the box?
Here’s what you get:
- Earwig Fuzz pedal
- TRRS breakout cable
- Quick start card
- Olinthus sticker
- Reusable metal container
- Recyclable/compostable packaging and shipping materials
Can you show me some boring specs?
Sure thing!
Design:
- Premium analog fuzz circuit design utilizing top-shelf components
- Cascading four stage hard-clipping circuit, including two diode stages and interstage tone stack
- Three sound sculpting controls for a wide variety of sonically complex fuzz and distortion tones
- Absurdly small bubblegum-colored anodized aluminum chassis
- High-quality true bypass switching
Ins / Outs:
- One top mounted TRRS combination jack
- Three connections available via included TRRS breakout cable:
- 1/4″ mono input
- 1/4″ mono output
- 9V power input
- Power requirements: maximum 9 volts DC center-negative, with a minimum of 50mA of current (power supply not included)
- Impedance:
- Input: 50 kΩ
- Output: 25 kΩ
Dimensions / Weight:
- Width: 30mm (1.2″), Length: 45mm (1.8″), Depth: 22mm (0.9″)
- Weight: 30g / 1.1oz
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Eco-Friendly Packaging.
Garbage Out.
When you receive Earwig, you will find the pedal nestled within a recyclable/compostable pulp insert, packed inside a reusable metal box. The pulp insert can be thrown in your recycling bin or compost, and this metal box can be easily repurposed for guitar picks, coins, or mind altering substances! Completely up to you.
Thanks.
Thanks for taking the time to learn more about our tiny fuzz pedal. Olinthus is a small company just getting started out, and we’re delighted that you’re interested in what we’re up to!
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*All third-party product names are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Olinthus. These product names, descriptions and images are provided for the sole purpose of identifying the specific products that were studied during the Olinthus circuit design and sound design process. Electro-Harmonix®, and Big Muff® are registered trademarks of New Sensor Corp. Pedaltrain® is a registered trademark of Pro Stage Gear, LLC.
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