An Effect Pedal by Jeff Starr

The Ruthie pedal is a dynamic preamp-to-fuzz that preserves your guitar’s natural character, offering a wide range of tones from clean to heavily distorted, controlled by your playing dynamics and fine tuned with “Mittens,”  a low frequency fuzz control.

Touch Sensitive Sound Enhancement

Conceived as an always-on preamp-to-fuzz, The Ruthie has been meticulously designed to maintain the character of your guitar in every pickup position.

Sick of fuzz pedals that make everything sound the same? The Ruthie is about giving you more of what you love about your guitar, not masking it under dirt.

By using dynamic companded asymmetric clipping, Ruthie creates a tactile response as you play. Adjust your guitar’s volume or change your pick attack to conjure robust cleans, harmonically rich clipping and fully gated fuzz.

Maximum simplicity

Beyond a True-Bypass toggle, a single knob controls the bass input frequencies. I call this EQ the Mitten’s control.

By placing this EQ at the start of the circuit it influences the distortion’s depth and it tightens up the fuzz to help your guitar cut in a mix.

Low Noise

Tremendous effort was put into developing an outstanding signal-to-noise ratio. The Ruthie can be powered by a 9 volt battery and for even quieter operation a 9v Center Positive 2.5mm DC power jack is included.

Handmade

Built in small batches and using low tolerance parts to ensure quality, each Ruthie is uniquely painted, signed and dated by me.

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The Ruthie is designed and built by Jeff Starr and is a division of 5 Starr Music Products LLC