VALENTINA - The Fuzz

I started Red Witch over 23 years ago. In some ways it seems like the briefest of moments… It feels like yesterday that my infant kids were wandering around the workshop in nappies, strumming guitars sitting in stands and chortling gleefully at the ensuing sounds… But as I write this, my youngest son, Gabe, 20, is working away at RW HQ on a batch of pedals, as part of the Red Witch team. Jude is 23 – playing bass in and managing a phenomenal NZ band called Sure Boy. Time sure flies. Such reflections on the passage of time actually kicked off the other day when I discovered an old, long forgotten box of new-old-stock Germanium transistors. I received these in the very early years of Red Witch. I'd set them aside and promptly forgot about them. Until now.   What to do?  Well, we all love fuzz. And there’s something magical about fuzz that uses the glorious old power of germanium in the front end. So...  I cleaned up these wonderful antiquities, sorted them, tested them, measured them an