The Fender Shields Blender is a collaboration between Fender and My Bloody Valentine’s front man Kevin Shields.
A pivotal influence on a few of the staff at Found Sound, the fuzz laden sounds of Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine set many teens of the '90s on the path of experimentation with high gain & modulated sounds. Kevin's tool of choice for fuzzyness was an original Fender Blender effect pedal, prized for its dynamic response and heavily clipped fuzz. Through over four years of co-development, Fender and Shields have resurrected this 1970s fuzz and injected a subversive feature set, creating the all-new Fender Shields Blender.
The Shields Blender echoes the tone of Shields' own vintage 1970s Fender Blender, thanks to carefully hand tracing the circuit from his personal fuzz box.
Built around this vintage circuit are completely new ways of controlling and blending the original fuzz voice, all crafted with performance in mind utilising four easy-access footswitches.
Two footswitchable channels of fuzz, each with dedicated level controls, offer the ability to blend the fuzz voice with your clean signal or to blend the fuzz voice with a beefy sub-octave fuzz, while the sag footswitch introduces sputtering and ducking effects, all controlled by the intensity of your playing dynamics.
Features:
- Original vintage Fender circuit combined with a new control set
- Two channels and three octaves of blendable, analogue fuzz tones
- Footswitchable, reactive voltage sag circuit controlled by picking dynamics
- Custom 1970s inspired enclosure with top-mounted jacks
- True-bypass switching
- Powered by 9-Volt Battery or centre negative AC adaptor (not included)
Video: https://youtu.be/xjY2QJ1QnsU
Product Specs
- Item Number: 28304
- Make: Fender
- Model: Shields Blender
- Condition: Brand New
- Finish: Black & Silver
- Categories: effects-and-pedals ⇒ fuzz ⇒ pedal
- Function: Distortion
- Made In: China
- MPN: 0234552000
- UPC: 885978406074
- Modular Grid: Pedals ⓘ ＋
- Dimensions*: 182 mm wide 114 mm high
- Power*: ? mA / 9 V AC/DC / Negative Center
* User contributed details