About Me

I’ve been designing and building effects since 2003, back then under the name Effector 13.

Before that, I ran the Guitar Pedal Archive, the earliest online databases devoted to stompboxes. Cataloguing pedals, schematics, and historical photos. I was particularly interested in Electro Harmonix and Japanese boutique effects. Their unusual designs made me want to build things that weren’t simply copies of older circuits.

I had no formal electronics training. My first design, the Krackle Fuzz, came from plugging components I got from Radio Shack into a breadboard until it made sound. I always saw myself more as a circuit bender than anything. One circuit would lead to another. The Krackle Fuzz became the Tri-Fuzz, the Beautiful Disaster, and eventually the Truly Beautiful Disaster. The Silver Crank led to the Vintage Fuzz Master. An abandoned design called the Doomsday Device produced the Torn’s Peaker and Never Drive.

Effector 13 grew through the internet via word of mouth. Guitar World covered the Truly Beautiful Disaster in February 2004, less than a year after I began. Vintage Guitar followed with the Improbability Drive, and Tape Op later covered the Truly Beautiful Disaster, Soda Meiser, Hymn Strangle, and Synth Mangler.

The pedals weren’t designed exclusively for guitar. They found their way onto basses, synthesizers, drum machines, vocals, and tabletop noise setups. Some had feedback loops, photo-sensitive controls, joysticks or several fuzz circuits fighting inside the same enclosure. The point was to find sounds that conventional effects were designed to prevent. That eventually led musicians like Trent Reznor and Kevin Shields to use my gear.

Effector 13 became devi ever : fx in 2009.

The pedals have since been used by many incredible artists, including Alan Moulder, Mick Gordon, Nine Inch Nails, My Bloody Valentine, Depeche Mode, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, The Black Keys, Boris, Silversun Pickups, Wilco, Nels Cline, The Shins, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Linkin Park, Anthrax, The Hives, Scissor Sisters, Nina Hagen Band, The Octopus Project, UNKLE, Michael Wandmacher, Wheatus, and ZZ Top.

They have been used in shoegaze, industrial music, experimental rock, metal, electronic music and places I never anticipated when I built the original circuits.

Making unusual effects accessible has always been part of the work. Alongside the main catalogue, I sold kits, published free schematics, and launched a $50 fuzz line at a time when boutique pedals were expensive and everyone in the industry vigilantly protected their circuits. Some even went so far as to cover them in resin, lol.

I eventually expanded my message board into a home for other boutique fuzz makers. It became known as ilovefuzz.com, although it is no longer under my control.

After spending time away from regular production, I relaunched devi ever : fx in 2022 and began building pedals again.

In 2026, I started bringing the circuits into software. The first Core plugins are Goddess Zero, Soda Meiser, Vintage Fuzz Master, and Zero Good. They simulate the original circuits at the component level. They aren’t captures, profiles, or approximations of what the pedals sound like. They are the circuits rebuilt in another medium.

It's been a wild 20 year journey and I'm glad to be here still bringing organic fuzzes to the world.