Caroline Guitar Company Shigeharu

Caroline Guitar Company Shigeharu is a classic Muff-style fuzz with the punch of a classic overdrive, and you have nice rocking machine!

Using a cascading hybrid of op-amp and BC184 transistor gain stages, Shigeharu provides all the sweet singing sustain and massive flamethrower gain you crave, but with unprecedented clarity, improved punch and definition, and consistent performance wherever it sits in your signal chain – even after buffers or wireless units.

Combine that with the parallel octave-up voiced fuzz available on demand with the Havoc* stomp and you have a whole lot of nasty right here. Two extra controls reside inside the pedal – a bias/gate control for dialing up broken, spitty sounds, and a slide switch that locks the octave-up “on” and converts the momentary to a kill/mute switch.

The pedal was designed in collaboration with John Snyder at Electronic Audio Experiments, because this thing was fearsome enough to compel us to seek a second opinion.

Caroline Guitar Company Shigeharu demo video