Effector 13 Beautiful Disaster

Build quality is not bad. Knobs, switches & toggle switches are well-fitted

This is 1 hell out of a machine!!! Its like kurt cobain meeting tom morello for a feedback duel. You wouldnt even expect anything nice from the feedback loop when you patch your pedals & on it. The fuzz is ok.

Workable untill now.

Devi has to be 1 of the best people in the world. Responses to email fast & willing to help or resolve any problems i had.

Best for experimental or the end of a rock tune. Turn the feedback loop & amaze the audiences!!!

pretty much any way you set the knobs, this thing sounds good. actually really good. and i'm not a big fuzz guy. it's only got three knobs. if you don't count the blend pots and the loop switches. but forget all that. it's still really easy.

i play a 2 channel triple rectifier with this thing, and truth be told, i don't use it live. what i do use it for is to make fart noises. you can set your guitar down, and tweak knobs to get the most real sounding fart noises ever. i love it. farts are great. also it doesn't seem like anybody's talking about the feedback loop. any pedal you put through this loop that deals with waves (chorus, phase, flange), you know-will oscillate like a lovetone stereo flanger. of course the lovetone sounds better, a: it's a lovetone. b: the sound is coming all from one pedal. i plugged my original small stone into the fx loop the other day, i thought it was very cool. a flange will sound like artoo d2. anyway it's definately worth it for the feedback loop, it's true bypass, great fuzz, and-when you think of farts, think beautiful disaster.

this pedal is very well made. i would not worry about it at all, except that it's pretty rare.
even so, i think it would withstand years of road torture and smile in the face of drunken crowd surfers and incoming beer.

i emailed tim once, i actually have serial number e13bd001! number 1! i thought that was exciting, so i dropped a line to express my appreciation. i didn't get a reply. kindof a bummer, since i've always thought highly of e13. i'm still kinda mad about it. maybe he didn't answer me cos i really didn't have a question. but i'm not gonna break down his door to give him my money. i emailed dan coggins of dinosaural about my meatball, and he called me from england! i felt like i was talking to the president! i pick up my phone and it's a guy who built $%^& with his own two hands that goes on ebay for like a thousand dollars-that's crazy. i'm not trying to hate, but i was genuinely dissapointed not to hear back from tim. i mean, seriously, i've got spaceships and $%^& drawn with a sharpie on the inside of my pedal.

i play everything, but i use this for my closet knob turning fetish. i'm one of those who has a separate recording rig. it's awesome. i'll never sell it. i have to give tim props. this is good work. i've been playing about 11 years now. i play in a band called sakajaweeda out of jacksonville. hopefully, i'll find a way to use in our recording. otherwise, it'll just be used in my solo stuff. it sounds great though. i would get another, i've gotta be able to make fart noises. i'm not a connoisseur of fuzz, and i won't try to act like one. but this pedal is really cool. and the fuzz is very respectable.

I have the 4-knob version. There are so many different sounds in this pedal, it takes a while to figure out, but it is very well laid out and concieved.

I've tried dozens of fuzz boxes, and this is by far the most over the top. I have a Fulltone Ultimate Octave, an Ampeg Scrambler clone and an original Fender Blender, and this pedal is way more insane than any of them. This box can produce Fuzz, sub-octaves, sputtering, and controlled oscillation. I'm into experimental indie-rock and psychedelica, and this pedal does things I couldn't imagine before I bought it. Easily the most versatile pedal on my board! It deserves an 11!

Built like a tank.

I dealt with them while ordering an Infinity pedal, and the designer was a great guy.

This pedal is an amazing piece of engineering genius. I want to find another, because they're not made amymore. There is a new model called the Truly Beautiful Disaster, but it is huge, too big for my pedalboard. There has never been another effect that is even close to it!

Before I begin.. I have to give props to the people who made this pedal : http://www.mercurysfortune.com/effector13/

I've been playing with this for almost 3 days now, and I can finally say that I'm beginning to understand the subte complexity of what the knobs do. 3 knobs on mine. Clean, Fuzz, and Sub-Octave. Although they all do basically what they say (with the clean bringing out the clean signal, fuzz - fuzz signal, and sub octave, the sub octave bass sound), they also are very organic, and tend to effect each other in various ways. Someone coming at this pedal with the idea that's like any other normal effect are going to be very confused. Each knob isn't that cut and dry. For instance, as you bring up the clean, the sub octave "feels" much more different than if you bring up the Fuzz knob... and mixing the fuzz and clean together begins to create strange sub-harmonix vibrations in the sound spectrum. I've also noticed that by lowering your guitar's volume while the Fuzz is turned down can create some wonderful subtle ring mod effects, but while the Fuzz is full blast, you can actually control the pitch of the self-oscillating signal, and create some great splatter fuzz. Over all I would give this a slightly lower rating, only because there is a learning curve, which you wouldn't come to expect from a 3 knob pedal, but it's there... and worth taking the time to learn... not for the impatient.

Honestly.. at first... I loved the variety of soudn that splattered, synthed, fuzzed, and oscillated out of this pedal. The next day... I hated every sound that came out of it... I felt like it was uncontrollable, and noisy... but over time... I realized the basic sonicity of the design, and began to find all KINDS of settings that I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't taken the time to really explore the possibilities. You have to really make subtle movements on the knobs to get the great tones out of this gem. People looking to turn the knobs all the way are going to get real bored of this pedal, or maybe fall in love with the extreme settings... but the real sparkle here is in the in-between spots where with just the right knob combination I've been able to get old 60's fuzz, thick-and-fat lead tones, slightly overdrive crackling tube tone... dirty-clean transistor radio sounds... and the best sub octave madness imagineable!!!

I am using the prototype of the Beautiful Disaster, and so far, after some rough use...the paint is a bit scratched, but everything is working fine, and I haven't had ANY troubel with it cutting out.

Tim is a people pleaser!

Over all, this is a great pedal. Unique, with just enough normalcy that normal people might be able to use it. Over-the-top fuzz for guitarists, synth players, and bassists alike!