More fuzz madness from the fuzz heavy Roger Mayer headquarters! The Voodoo Axe takes off where the Original Axis fuzz left off by adding a tighter low-end, an extra mean output section, ac power, and a newer compact housing.

This thing is tough! A road worthy aluminum case takes care of the Voodoo Axe's innards while a stylish black paint job and white silkscreened lettering takes care of outer cosmetics. Three very tactile rubber knobs take care of the gain, fatness, and output while one stomp switch takes care of on/off duties. The control knobs themselves are made fairly pliable rubber which makes a fantastic surface for making minute onstage changes with the edges of your shoes. In addition to the standard input jack the Voodoo offers outputs jacks to split your signal to two amps or wherever you want. Add an AC Jack and a red indicator light mounted on top of the unit and you've got the picture.

Seems Roger Mayer has taken the best sound fuzz sounds from all his other boxes, added a well tuned tone knob, and packed it all into the Voodoo Axe. The Fatness knob really does the trick here. Lethal doses of low-end can be added to the sound without things getting wooly or sounding like a sick tuba. The outcome is a very tight, focused, and very usable lower register. This should perk the attention of old-time fuzz freaks looking for new flavors as well as the nu-metal generation of 7 string slinging detuners. The sonic boundaries of the fuzz have now been extended to new lows and that's a good thing! On the other end of the spectrum the Voodoo Axe can still get nasal with the best of them. Peg that Fatness knob to the far right and your back in the realm of classic 60s fuzz tones. It's not a paper thin sound but a pleasantly narrow band of warm squelch that sounds simply amazing.

Nothing against the classic Mayer spaceship design but i think this smaller, more compact housing, along with the convenient of AC power should appeal to fickle pedal buyers who have limited real estate on their pedal boards or are sick of buying 9 volt batteries. The Voodoo Axe advances the legacy of fuzz-dom by addressing the problems of pedals past and comes up with a very hip box that can straddle many generations in terms of both musical style and sound. Plus, who else could realistically to take the fuzz pedal into the 21st century besides Roger Mayer?