Over the course of '69 and '70, Jimi Hendrix used a mysterious red Fuzz Face Distortion with white knobs at some of his most notable live performances—Live at Woodstock, Live at Berkeley, and Live at the Fillmore East. That fuzz pedal sounded entirely unique compared to any other Fuzz Face pedals in Jimi's collection, delivering a snarling, aggressive, biting tone.

The pedal itself has been lost to history, but its unmistakably unique tone lives on in the recordings of those three iconic shows, and Hendrix fans have tried to capture that sound for years. We are happy to say that their tonal quest can finally come to a glorious end.

After tirelessly examining all the different customized circuit designs Jimi used over the years, our engineers narrowed down this elusive fuzz tone to a version of the Octavio® circuit that didn’t have the octave-up signal. With a few tweaks, they recreated it perfectly in the Band of Gypsys Fuzz Face Mini Distortion.

Now, you can get the same Fuzz Face tone Jimi used to captivate audiences at some of his most famous performances. It comes in a pedalboard-friendly Fuzz Face Mini housing, complete with an AC power jack and an on/off status LED.