Earthquaker Devices Cloven Hoof Fuzz

This is the new Cloven Hoof from Earthquaker Devices, a furious fuzz box based on Earthquaker's venerable Hoof Fuzz, but with more of everything that made the original Hoof so powerful. For the Cloven Hoof, the crew at Earthquaker worked to extend the bass response for more low-end crunch, then swapped the Hoof's germanium transistors for a quartet of hand-picked silicon transistors, imparting it with four times the gain range of the original. The Cloven Hoof will take you from squeaky clean to full-on fuzzpocalypse, and it has a tremendous amount of output on tap for pummeling the front end of your amp into oblivion. Its tone and shift controls have both been further fine-tuned to allow comprehensive control over the pedal's overall voice and midrange content. The Earthquaker Cloven Hoof can be powered by a standard 9V DC power supply or battery, and as with all of Earthquaker's fine devices, each Cloven Hoof is made by hand in sunny Akron, Ohio.

[doodlemcnoodlee]

Mexicola, Thickfreakness, and Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground all in the same video? Andy, you beautiful man you.

[saltedcrypts]

got mine in the mail today, can confirm it sounds just as great as it does in the video. (and QOTSA riffs most definitely sound beautiful thorough it ha)

[Robster]

I felt like I was following the smoke to a riff filled land...

[hendrixg]

Yo Andy. Every time you play a QOTSA riff I automatically want the pedal. Just saying.

[kiwiramjet]

Wow, the invisible pick even sounds great on bass too!
Haha great demo Andy!

[PAdude]

This is seriously such a great pedal. It gets stupid fuzzy and yet every chord I play (no matter how dissonant a chord) I can still hear every note. It's really something else

[andrewt]

Mexicola! Love hearing QOTSA in the fuzz demos, especially the early stuff.

[TotinosOtherBoy]

The QOTSA covers on these pedals always sell them for me!

[TurtleGamers]

A QoTSA riff and a White Stripes riff in the same video? This is too good for me to handle

[Rhapsodyusful]

Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground is always enjoyable to hear

[GuitarsAndSynths]

One of my favorite fuzz pedals along with the Death By Audio Apocalypse and Vick Audio 73 Ram's Head.

[Ston]

Way to go, Andy !  I dub you "Pedal Demo King." Yay, let it be written.
Oh yeah, demo'd an Earthquaker Fuzz in a music shop today and I must say it has a very natural, smooth, beefy sound.

[keatonrobinson]

THIS IS THE PERFECT QOTSA RIFF FOR THIS PEDAL

[StevePNathan]

Thanks Andy in PDX at PGS, cool pedal from the Quakers, and for those who don't know, Akron is sunny, and a nice city. Love it

[michaelbell]

This makes the 3rd Earthquaker fuzz pedal I want. Why must they make so many good ones?!

[olas]

Is there anything PGS Andy can not do? Keep rockin' brother!

[AdventuresinBackpacking]

Nice mashup there of Jack White and the Black Keys.  Somewhere in the world, Jack White is screaming, "SEE WHAT I MEAN!" :)

[HyBrdRaNgr]

Thank you, Andy, for this great demo! Haha while I listened to all of it, the intro really sold me on this pedal! I've had it for like 4-5 months now and am still loving it! The shift knob along with the tone really makes this pedal...Just got a new, different fuzz(was trying to expand on fuzz tones, not replace this) and unfortunately isn't really working out well without a dedicated tone knob :/ Not enough high end, so a lot of more complex chords just get lost. Won't say what pedal it is, cuz it's from a great company and I know it's working like it's supposed to, but it's just not working out for me...
So a word of advice for those new to fuzz: try to find a pedal with as much control over tone as possible! I would definitely recommend the Cloven hoof, or something similar with a middle and treble eq so you can tailor your sound correctly! Nothing worse than hitting a minor chord and basically only hear the "power chord."

[donwantstobesedated]

I like the difference between the regular hoof and the cloven hoof. This one has a much more sizzly high end, while the original is a bit smoother. Both are great pedals.

[NickCasale]

Damn, this sounds really, really good