What are the Puzzle Effects pedals?
Puzzle Effects is a French brand of analog effects pedals.
They started out in 2019 with an awesome idea for a pedal that doesn’t need patch cables. Sounds a little crazy right?
Puzzle Effects started a Kickstarter project for their puzzle pedals.
So far there are 3 different pedals; Rocket, Submarine, and Buggy.
How does it work?
Each pedal has circuitry on the sides that help power the pedals. Only one power cable is needed. When you slot the other pedals next to each other the circuitry on the sides will power the other two pedals without any other cables needed.
What an incredible idea!
This could really save space on your pedal board.
Additionally you can test out different chain orders to see what works best for your sound.
What if you only get one Puzzle Effects pedal?
Don’t worry, each pedal comes with a standard jack input and output to make them compatible with all your current pedals.
Rocket pedal
The Rocket pedal is a boost pedal. According to the Kickstarter campaign this boost pedal has a great dynamic response, and natural compression.
Furthermore the pedal has two active EQ bands. It has a bass and treble knob to help you sculpt your sound.
Lastly it has a boost knob which will help drive your tubes.
If you are looking for a tone similar to a tube screamer I would suggest pairing this with their Buggy overdrive pedal.
Submarine pedal
The Submarine is a delay pedal with a deep, ambient echo.
This pedal offers a hybrid approach keeping the characteristics of analog signal processing while delegating only the delay management to digital.
For this reason the pedal has a time, repeat, and blend knob.
With the use of that blend knob you can create a tone unique to your sound.
Buggy pedal
Buggy is the overdrive pedal from Puzzle Effects.
Firstly the circuitry allows you to increase your headroom from 9V to 18V.
It features a wide range of expression in addition to reactivity to the playing dynamics and volume of the guitar. Therefore this pedal is able to adapt to your playing and enhance the harmonics of your notes.
What pedal are you looking forward to?
I am so excited to continue to follow how these pedals progress from Puzzle Effects. There simply isn’t another product on the market like this one.
I’m very interested in the Submarine and Buggy pedals.
What pedal is your favorite?
To support this project head over to Kickstarter and see how you can get your hands on your own Puzzle Effects pedal.