Description
Rufus isn’t chasing one vintage fuzz circuit — it’s built to cover the territory between late-’60s Fillmore East warmth and the more aggressive, mid-scooped grind of ’90s Grunge, all while responding to pick attack and volume knob like a cranked tube amp. Drop it after your dirt boxes or run it solo; either way it reacts to what you feed it rather than flattening everything into one texture.
Where Rufus breaks from typical fuzz design is the onboard 3-band EQ. Instead of fighting a fixed tone stack, you can dial in low, mid, and high response to match your guitar or bass without losing the character of your instrument’s own voice — and yes, it’s genuinely bass-friendly, holding onto low-end that most fuzzes throw away.
Suhr’s mf(x) multi-function footswitch adds practical stage utility: hold the switch to flip instantly between Rufus’ two voicings, Normal and Fat, mid-song. It also remembers whichever mode you last used, so the pedal comes back exactly how you left it every time you power up.
Signal chain placement is flexible too — Rufus’ input is designed to play nicely with buffered devices ahead of it, like a tuner or another effect, without the input interaction collapsing the way it does on many traditional fuzz circuits. And when you click it off, true bypass switching pulls it completely out of the path, leaving your tone untouched.
- 3-band EQ for shaping fuzz tone on guitar or bass
- mf(x) footswitch: instant switching between Normal and Fat modes, with memory
- Buffer-tolerant input for use after tuners or buffered pedals
- True bypass switching
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