Snakes Pedals Finger Print clone fuzz pedal

     This is a clone of the Finger Print pedal made by Snakes Pedals, who build high quality clone pedals with super-cool hand-painted graphics.   They can be found on etsy.com.
     The pedals has three knobs and two footswitches.   One knob for volume, one for gain, and one for texture.   One footswitch for on/off and one that switches between the gain knob setting and maximum gain with the gain knob bypassed.  For this review I used my Tele-copy guitar with single coil pickups.  With the texture knob completely counter-clockwise, the gain ranges from warm overdrive to no frills distortion tones.   As the texture knob is increased, the tones gain more upper mids and hi-end overtones and gets more and more complex with a jagged, Gang of Fourish type of sound as the knob is turned.   At about 2-3-o-clock an upper octave overtone starts to kick in and with the knob all the way up the pedal sounds the most unpredicatable, with octave overtones and a sputtering, highly textured fuzz tone that bring to mind The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bauhaus, and My Bloody Valentine.   This is not a metal pedal by any stretch of the imagination, but it offers a fair amount of gain and a wide range of interesting overdrive, distortion, and fuzz tones.
     This pedal does not take any battery, it uses a standard Boss-style 9-volt adaptor.   Each pedal has a different, hand-painted enclosure and all for a very un-Boutique price tag.   Snakes pedals are highly recommended, super high quality Boutique clone pedals for a great price.    Check them out on etsy.com.