“With proper playing dynamics, this creates a very cool effect that can sound like an exploding amp coming in and out of life”: EarthQuaker Devices and Lee Kiernan of IDLES introduce Gary, a drive/fuzz wildcard for maverick tone-seekers

EarthQuaker Devices Lee Kiernan Gary Automatic Pulse Width Modulation Fuzz and Dynamic Natural Overdrive.

EarthQuaker Devices’ president and founder Jamie Stillman and IDLES guitarist Lee Kiernan have only gone and put their heads together and designed a guitar effects pedal named Gary.

But what does Gary do? Well, if you’re thinking to yourself, that given the principals involved here, messrs Stillman and Kiernan, that this stompbox unlikely to be a clean boost or a garden variety Klon clone, you’d be right.