Description
The Seamoon Funk Machine isn’t chasing the funk sound — it’s one of the pedals that originally defined it. Built by Neil Jason, an NY session bassist with a staggering recording resume, this reissue exists because he couldn’t find a modern replacement that matched the original’s tone. So he made one himself: more compact, more road-worthy, same voice.
At its core, this is an all-analog envelope filter that tracks your playing dynamics and sweeps a resonant filter in response — that classic “auto-wah” chatter that made countless funk and soul basslines and horn lines pop. It’s equally comfortable on guitar, giving single-note runs and chords a vocal, chromatic quality that reacts to how hard you dig in.
Controls are kept direct and musician-friendly:
- Blend — mix filtered and dry signal to taste
- Frequency — set the sweep’s starting point
- Depth — control how far the filter travels
- Onboard preamp with toggle switch — for extra punch or gain staging
- Volume — output level control
On a pedalboard, this sits happily early in the chain, right where envelope filters do their best work — ahead of dirt or modulation, reacting cleanly to your input signal. Bass players get that percussive, popping low-end sweep; guitarists get glassy, quacky funk textures; horn players get a way to inject the same character straight into a PA or amp.
Made in America, finished with a paint job that’s as loud as the tone, the Funk Machine is a direct line back to the era when this sound was inescapable — and it’s ready to make it inescapable again.
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