This is a pretty basic high gain fuzz with a slider that controls battery starve for a range of sputtering and gated effects. Really nice sounding, very easy to dial in.

Super solid build quality. Precision with a bit of heft and a good dose of finesse.
Probably the clearest and most articulate boost pedal I’ve ever owned. And this is just running the pedal direct into a Fender Princeton copy.
It does clean boost all the way up to a very focused textured drive. Not a bad sound with any of the settings.
A bit pricey but you do get what you pay for.

This pedal offers many features in a simple to use format that many other manufacturers overly complicate. The expression pedal option makes it even more versatile (wish you didn't have to push that rear button to activate it though). The radio and vinyl settings are especially fun and useful. Sound Shoppe was great to purchase from with quick shipping.

I was a huge fan of V1 so knowing Nic had made a new version, it was a given I'd want more love in my life. This is the first time I've bought the new version of a pedal I already have. Changing it from landscape to portrait has definitely made an excellent quality of life upgrade for fitting it on a pedalboard. I would have V1 placed in portrait on my board but dailing in the knobs was a little confusing. I love the range of gentle saturation to absolute monstrous fuzz, I'm a big fan of all Empty Head Effects pedals!

I'm just beginning to disciover all the crazy audio-flavors this thing offers-it'll definitely be part of the 'x-factor' part of my chain for the fioreseeable future.

Exactly what I was looking for. My guitar sounds great even without adding much effects. I also loved the swift delivery.

I went with this pedal as my introduction to Empty Head Effects, and now I'll be trying other pedals from them. The versatility of this pedal far exceeded my expectations. It can be very subtle, adding warmth to your sound, or it can rip the signal apart. It works great before or after reverb.

This is a great tool to sculpt your tone by being able to target frequencies to modulate, delay, boost or distort. This opens up endless possibilities in a simple and intuitive to use pedal. Blending targeted frequencies with the right effects opens up unique tones and possibilities. This is a great tool in your sonic arsenal. Highly recommended

This is an excellent preamp pedal with enough options to serve as a complete preamp into a decent tube amp with all the tone knobs flat or adjusted for a neutral tone. I’ve clean and gain tones.
Build quality is high.

Unbelievable pedal and unbelievable service from sound shoppe. Thanks David

Been jilted by other drive pedals? The Lover 2 may be the cure for a broken heart. It's a real looker and I'm loving the textures in this thing! From beautiful touch-sensitive overdrive to crunchy fuzz-tones, the Lover does it all! The high and low pass filters, each with an internal trim pot, make it easy to dial in the sounds I want from any guitar/amp, while the clipping diodes ("Lungs" knob) add fine-tuning to the overall texture and EQ. I go through a lot of pedals, and this one is absolutely a keeper.

Double Tape T is MADE for a wet/dry/wet setup. Running in in stereo is a cacophony of beautiful noise, with a dry signal in between you get something really special. Of all my ezhi&aka pedals, this one is the most Brian Eno-esque. It feels like having a EMS VCS3 on your board. It’s incredibly versatile and and can go from somewhat recognizable guitar or synth tones right into tape glitchy detuned space alien weirdness. If you play with a stereo amp setup (or even better, wet/dry/wet), I highly recommend the stereo version, totally worth it.

Brom is pure chaos, and unlike any of the other twentyish fuzz pedals I own. It can do glitchy modulated fuzz, kind of like early Spacemen 3, right up to wall of sound noise similar to the 90s post rock Kranky Records bands (Jessamine, Godspeed You Black Emperor, etc). And the best part is, when you’re not melting faces with it, it’s dead quiet.

Terrible Mother sounds like there’s gremlins inside of the pedal plugging and unplugging cables into a patchbay while you play. It’s unpredictable, to say the least. I’ve been naming bands in my other ezhi&aka reviews that remind me of the pedal’s effect, but with Terrible Mother, I can’t think of a good reference point. It’s really that unique. I love it equally on synth or guitar. If you’re into experimental music and want something that inspires creativity and can’t be replicated by anything else, go for it, you won’t be disappointed.

Running for 78 is another one where you can run a simple loop in front of it and the 78 is the instrument. Completely mangles whatever you feed it and makes it unrecognizable, not the kind of thing you’re going to bring to your jazz trio. Kind of a more experimental NIN Downward Spiral type pedal, 90s digital degradation goodness.