Prescription Electronics Outbox

[cd]

Does anyone know (or can confirm) if the PE Outbox (see www.fuzzbox.com) is a Roland Bee Baa clone like I think it is?  By the description of the three functions (and controls) that's what I think it is.

[Mark Hammer]

The reference to the Bee-Baa in the posted review is just an arbitrarily-chosen reference point.  They might just as easily have said Superfuzz or any of the other similar designs that stuck a switch-selectable notch filter in.

Me, I'm still curious to hear from anyone who has stuck a mid-scoop filter at the end of one of Joe Davisson's many high gain designs (e.g., Blackfire).  Betcha it would sound great.

[cd]

I wish I could find one locally to play, there's a sound sample on the Tonefrenzy site but it's not very helpful (to my ears anyway).

As a mental exercise, what could it be?  Requirements are:

1) octave fuzz with volume and fuzz controls
2) second channel adds a tone control
3) switch that activates scooped mid EQ

Candidates:

a) Fender Blender
b) Foxx Tone Machine
c) Ampeg Scrambler
d) Univox Super Fuzz
e) RM Octavia
f) Roland Bee Baa
g) something else/totally original

I would eliminate b), since the Experience Pedal is based on the FTM, and duplicating it in another pedal sounds dumb (which would also eliminate e), since it's very similar to the FTM).  I suppose I would also eliminate f), since the Bee Baa does not do any octaving.  c) seems unlikely since if it was as crazy as the Scrambler, that definitely would have come up in any review.  That leaves a), d), and g).  I'm leaning towards a), even thought the Blender is very similar to the FTM, it has that tone bypass which could be considered a "second channel".  However if you look at the Outbox, it uses two 3PDTs and one DPDT - assuming the true bypass uses one 3PDT, the "more" channel uses the other 3PDT, which could mean switching in another EQ network with a transistor recovery stage?  Hmm.