Fuzz Review: Wounded Paw – Battering Ram

Initial thoughts:

A pedal that kind of dropped on me out of the blue. Preston from Wounded Paw Effects and I have chatted a little bit in the past about one of his previous offerings (the Attack Goat) and he asked me if I’d be interested in doing a review/overview of his new pedal. Since he was offering me a deep discount, I’m a total pedal whore, and I liked the attack goat I figured it would be a good fun. My initial impressions looking down at the pedal were slightly counter to what the pedal actually turned out to be! I was expecting two effects that could each be played solo, or with cascaded them in series. It turns out the left switch is bypass for the whole effect, and the right switch actives the fuzz portion which is running in parallel to the od sounds and blended at the end. After fooling around for awhile, I found it easier to think of the pedal as one effect, with an extra stomp switch for “massively more”.