Benson Amps has launched a fuzz pedal that puts a modern twist on the oldest fuzz of them all. The brilliantly named Stonk Box really is something to get excited about if your tastes in fuzz were calibrated on the waspish parp of Keith Richards’ Satisfaction riff.
But vintage fuzz in 2023 can be a moveable feast thanks to component drift allied to the temperature-sensitive nature of germanium transistors, Christopher Benson dreamt up a workaround – an Automatic Thermal Bias feature that guaranteed a consistent tone come rain or shine, snow or hail.
