ash

ash is a digital recreation of a silicon tone bender mk ii fuzz, modeled after the infamous eqd black ash, with added low-pass and starve controls. at starve 0 it’s the pedal as traced. at starve 7-9 its smouldering ash. starve 10 and it’s gone.

behavior

the starve knob maps 0–10.

• starve 0–3: the stock fuzz. full headroom, the note rings out and decays on its own.
• starve 3–8: an octave-down divider ramps in. it flips alternate cycles at the zero crossing, so the note drops an octave and keeps its harmonics above it.
• starve 4–9: a plucked note chokes early; a held note keeps spitting, mostly an octave down.
• starve 10: the stage is cut off and the pedal goes quiet.

top

the tone control is a plain low-pass. dark and closed at 0, open at 10. the sweep of the filter is spread across the whole range of the control.

fuzz

fuzz is the gain, and it sits in the last stage’s emitter, so it changes how hard the model clips without moving its bias. the sweep of the fuzz is also spread across the range of the control.