Mess O' Pedals - One-Off Circuit Bent Gear & Tape Loops
Hand-modded oddities, glitch boxes, and warbly loops. Every piece is unique; when it's gone, it's gone.
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Nothing here is guaranteed new, guaranteed to be any specific “clone,” or even guaranteed to be from this universe - a few may be cursed. What they definitely are: hand-built, one-of-a-kind, and straight off my bench. They've worn out their welcome here, and it's time they found new homes - imperfections included.
Everything I sell is hand-built and I stand behind it. Stops working within 30 days → full refund or free repair (I pay shipping back to me); free repairs anytime after that. Full returns & repairs terms »
Pedals
This batch is all prototypes straight from the bench - priced to move at a flat $60 each.
The Cereal Killer - Prototype
A lo-fi PT2399 delay - warm, gritty echoes that smear into grain and tip into runaway self-oscillation. Tarot-card skull artwork, one of a kind.
$60
Pop Rocks - Prototype
A fixed-wah (parked-wah) filter - all the vocal, quacky bite of a wah, dialed to one sweet spot with Volume, Zone, and Peak. Orange-fizz speckled box, especially fun in front of a fuzz. One of a kind.
$60
The Cat's Pajamas - Prototype
One knob, one stomp, one very distinguished cat. A glitchy 8-bit octave-down in a hand-painted blue-and-pink box with tarot-card cat artwork.
$60
Solo Fuzz - Prototype
A no-frills silicon fuzz - one chunky knob, all roar. A gnarly, doom-leaning Fuzz Box-style circuit in a teal-and-purple splatter box. Plug in, stomp, fuzz. One of a kind.
$60
Electric Cosmonaut - Prototype
A hand-painted envelope filter in starfield orange - quacky, funky auto-wah with a friendly cosmonaut riding shotgun.
$60
Circuit-Bent Oddities
Not pedals - bent, rewired, and re-purposed electronics that make sounds they were never supposed to.
Starjammer - Circuit-Bent Toy Guitar
A Toys "R" Us Dream Dazzlers guitar bent into a noise machine. Real touch-responsive strings play the riffs, buttons fire notes and built-in tunes, and the whammy bar warbles. Added bends: a voltage starve plus an echo with depth and feedback. Speaker pulled for a line out, custom pink LEDs throughout. One of a kind.
$75
Bent Brooks - Lo-Fi ISD1820 Sampler
A lo-fi ISD1820 sampler in a decorated skull - a nod to Brook, the singing skeleton from One Piece. Preloaded with his singsong “yo-ho-ho-ho-ho” laugh: a play button fires it, and a pitch-bend knob drags it from a graveyard groan up to a chipmunk squeal. One of a kind.
$75
Tape Loops
Hand-spliced cassette loops in recycled shells - $12 flat, shipping included, one of each. The label on every shell is whatever it used to be (gospel, polka, a Christmas comp) and has nothing to do with what's on the tape now. The audio is a random loop I picked, spliced to repeat forever - warble and hiss included. Don't like what's on it? Record right over it.
Loop 014
Started life as a 1987 Reno & Smiley gospel tape. What's looping on it now is not gospel. Random splice, one of a kind - tape over it if the spirit moves you.
$12
Loop 018
A white shell that used to be Italian standards - Toselli's Serenade, Santa Lucia, the works. The tape inside owes them nothing now.
$12
Loop 020
Was “Songs The Angels Sing” in a past life. The angels have left the building; what loops now is anyone's guess.
$12
Loop 035
A Liberty Records country comp, stripped for parts. New tape, new splice, zero twang guaranteed.
$12
Loop 037
Reba's “It's Your Call” donated the shell. What's on the loop is, fittingly, your call - record over it whenever.
$12
Loop 044
The shell still says Reba's “Read My Mind.” Don't - there's no reading this one. Just a random loop that repeats until you stop it.
$12
Drowning Pikmin · Loop 056
Named, not explained. A white Canadian shell relabeled by hand - “Drowning Pikmin” is the mood, not the tracklist. Loops forever; tape over it if you dare.
$12
Loop 059
Used to be a scripture-memory tape from 1992. It has since lost the plot entirely. Random loop, hiss included.
$12
Loop 063
A “Wee Sing Bible Songs” shell from 1986, repurposed with zero reverence. Whatever's on it now is not for the kids.
$12
Loop 071
Three polkas' worth of shell, none of the polka. New tape spliced into a Canadian party-favorites reject.
$12
Loop 072
A Christmas comp shell - Little Drummer Boy, Silver Bells, the lot. Out of season and off-script now, and it loops year-round.
$12
An Echo From Before
Black shell, pink tape, no number - just a name. Salvaged from an old concert cassette and re-spliced into something that only sounds like a memory.
$12
Next Drop
New pieces appear in small batches. Want a heads-up? Email onionmadder@gmail.com with subject "Mess O' Pedals Drop List."