"Fuzz so heavy, it had to be split."
Death By Audio are back at it again, and this time they’ve taken fuzz to extremes with the release of the Crossover Fuzz – a savage, filter-fuelled tone destroyer that slices your signal into highs and lows and obliterates each with DBA’s unmistakable fuzz voicing. Retailing at $320, this monster is available now in a limited-edition white finish, exclusively via Reverb.
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Dual-Band Fuzz Mayhem
At its core, the Crossover Fuzz acts like a crossover circuit gone rogue. Your signal is split into high and low frequency bands, each routed through its own fuzz engine. Independent gain and volume controls let you sculpt the top and bottom halves of your tone with precision — or absolute chaos. Want rumbling lows and glass-shattering highs? Done. Prefer subtle grit on the bottom with screaming treble on top? Easy. It’s fuzz design with no ceiling.
Filters That Fight Back
The star of the show is the Freq knob, which sweeps two resonant filters in tandem. Depending on how far you push it, you can carve out space in a live mix with surgical control, or unleash oscillating madness that feels like the pedal is about to combust. A responsive LED display tracks your crossover point in real time, glowing and shifting colour as you twist the filter into uncharted territory.
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Built for Sonic Experiments
With its HIGH and LOW inputs and outputs, the Crossover Fuzz is also a routing dream. Send lows to a bass amp, highs to a guitar amp, or split the bands into separate effects chains for wide, stereo-panning fuzz textures. Add CV or expression control to modulate the crossover point live, and you’ve got a fuzz pedal that behaves more like a modular synth than a stompbox.
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