Dirty Duo

Rose-Morris resurrects a long-gone brand in conjunction with ThorpyFX for a reissue of a vintage fuzz pedal

- Trevor Curwen

Besides the big-hitters such as the Fuzz Face and Tone Bender, there were also a host of lesser-known fuzz pedals that had their genesis in the 1960s. One such was the 1968 Shaftesbury Duo Fuzz, which was available from Rose-Morris who had a showroom in Shaftesbury Avenue (the store is now around the corner in Denmark Street). The Duo Fuzz design was developed by the Shin-Ei corporation in Japan who knew it as the FY-6 and made it in several guises for a large number of different companies - it may, in fact, be better known as the Univox Super-Fuzz. Notable users back in the day were Pete Townshend (it’s all over The Who's Live At Leeds album) and Steve Hackett of Genesis.