Fender has announced the Limited Edition Fender Shields Blender Pedal, a limited-edition product launch between Fender and alt-rock icon Kevin Shields.
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Throughout the late ’80s and ’90s, Shields awakened iconic sonic walls of fuzz as the world had never heard as he defined the tone of alternative rock, inspiring the ‘shoegaze’ genre and beyond, most notably with his band’s seminal record Loveless, an album that catapulted My Bloody Valentine into a commercial success.
The Fender Shields Blender pedal represents the revival of a classic Fender fuzz circuit from the 1970s and serves as the new penchant for the effects pedal category, which has been reimagined through a collaborative four-year development process with Kevin Shields.
Priced at $499.99, today marks the limited edition release of only 700 pedals worldwide, available exclusively on Fender.com, Reverb (US), and Andertons (UK), all signed by the My Bloody Valentine frontman himself. Purchase links are coming soon! Here are a few key specs of the Fender Shields Blender:
- Designed around a classic: Designed around Kevin Shield’s original Fender® Blender circuit, with his added tweaks, the Fender® Shields Blender adds an octave-up push button to toggle the original octave-up fuzz voice on and off, unlocking all-new vintage fuzz tones.
- Two footswitchable channels: The Octave Footswitch toggles between two channels of fuzz. Channel one blends the fuzz voice with the original clean signal. Channel two removes the clean signal and instead blends the fuzz with a monophonic sub-octave fuzz.
- Blendable fuzz: Use the Volume and Blend knobs to set the right balance of clean and fuzz signals to create unique crisp tones, then use the Fuzz and Octave knobs to craft the right mix of dual or triple octave fuzz.
- Reactive sag circuit: The revolutionary sag circuit uses dynamic sensing circuitry to create imploding fuzz tones. By starving the transistors of power relative to the picking intensity used by the player, you can harness controlled chaos like no other fuzz.
- Limited Edition Collector’s Items: A limited print art box, a limited print hand-signed collector’s booklet telling the story of how this amazing collaboration came to be, and a plaque bearing Shield’s signature.
What do you think of the Fender Shields Blender effects pedal? Please share your thoughts on any of the social media pages listed below. You can also comment on our MeWe page by joining the MeWe social network. And subscribe to our RUMBLE channel for more trailers and tech videos.
