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Delay is a powerful thing. Here’s how it can affect your guitar tone. Let’s use our tiny Earwig fuzz and this obscure old Peavey pedal I recently found to demonstrate!

I just found a rare and obscure effects pedal from 1988—the Peavey DEP-1. It has some unique features and can create some super rad sounds! Let’s check out a couple sounds!

Taking a quick break from working on new projects in the Olinthus labs to see what the Korg Volca Beats sounds like through the world’s smallest fuzz pedal 🫨

That time Aubrey Situmorang (Aubrey Situmorang | Bassist) recorded a bunch of sick clips with our tiny fuzz

Earwig delivers a huge range of thunderously beautiful fuzz sounds, stuffed into the smallest effects pedal on the planet. This pedal may be tiny, but it has more than enough might to invade your ears with ferocious distortion and sustain.

⁉️ Why so small? No matter how little space you have, there’s always room for the colossal fuzz sounds of Earwig. Its small size allows it to be placed where no pedal has gone before. Running out of room on your pedalboard? No need to kick other pedals off your board—Earwig fits in the smallest open spaces in your rig.

⁉️ How do I connect? Earwig comes with a breakout cable for your connections, providing 1/4” input, 1/4” output, and a jack for 9V power. Easily integrate into any rig.

⁉️ How do I turn it on? The whole pedal is the switch, it’s hinged at the top. Press anywhere on the lower half of the pedal (even on the k***s) to turn it on or off.

It doesn’t have to make sense. 😺

Yes, you can turn our tiny pedals into earrings 🤷‍♂️

Banana for scale. Many people don’t really know how tiny our pedals actually are, so let’s walk around my house to find some things to give you a sense of scale.

We make tiny effects pedals because we’re a bit ridiculous. But sometimes being a bit off the wall opens up a whole new world of possibilities.

⁉️ Why so small? No matter how little space you have, there’s always room for the colossal fuzz sounds of Earwig. Its small size allows it to be placed where no pedal has gone before. Running out of room on your pedalboard? No need to kick other pedals off your board—Earwig fits in the smallest open spaces in your rig.


⁉️ How do I connect? Earwig comes with a breakout cable for your connections, providing 1/4” input, 1/4” output, and a jack for 9V power. Easily integrate into any rig.

⁉️ How do I turn it on? The whole pedal is the switch, it’s hinged at the top. Press anywhere on the lower half of the pedal (even on the k***s) to turn it on or off.

That time Vanessa Wheeler () recorded a bunch of sick clips with our tiny fuzz

Earwig delivers a huge range of thunderously beautiful fuzz sounds, stuffed into the smallest effects pedal on the planet. This pedal may be tiny, but it has more than enough might to invade your ears with ferocious distortion and sustain.

⁉️ Why so small? No matter how little space you have, there’s always room for the colossal fuzz sounds of Earwig. Its small size allows it to be placed where no pedal has gone before. Running out of room on your pedalboard? No need to kick other pedals off your board—Earwig fits in the smallest open spaces in your rig.

⁉️ How do I connect? Earwig comes with a breakout cable for your connections, providing 1/4” input, 1/4” output, and a jack for 9V power. Easily integrate into any rig.

⁉️ How do I turn it on? The whole pedal is the switch, it’s hinged at the top. Press anywhere on the lower half of the pedal (even on the k***s) to turn it on or off.

We made an animated video for our tiny pedal company because why not! Every pedal that we release has an illustrated character associated with it, with stories that we hope to eventually release as a series of comic books. This is Cicada’s origin story :)

Here’s how this tiny compressor pedal can affect your sound! Despite its incredibly small size, Pillbug delivers pure analog vintage-style compression, from gentle squeeze to soaring sustain. It packs more than enough might to tailor your dynamics for any style or setup.

Inspired by two iconic compressor pedals that we love—the 1974 Ross Compressor and the 1981 Boss CS-2 Compressor/Sustainer, Pillbug skillfully shapes your front-end tone with warm, smooth, and musical compression that thickens clean tones, adds depth to leads, and keeps chords articulate. All packed into a comically small footprint.

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⁉️ Why so small? Compressors are often “always-on” or “set-and-forget” utility pedals that lay the foundation of your tone—so it seemed like the perfect application for our tiny pedal platform. Why take up a ton of real estate for a device you rarely need to touch? Pillbug fits in the smallest open spaces in your rig. You can even place it on top of another pedal!

⁉️ How do I connect it? Pillbug comes with a breakout cable for your connections, providing 1/4” input, 1/4” output, and a jack for 9V power. Easily integrate into any rig.

⁉️ How do I turn it on? The whole pedal is the switch, it’s hinged at the top. Press anywhere on the lower half of the pedal (even on the k***s) to turn it on or off.