# Cryptid EffectsHand-wired guitar and bass pedals inspired by legends and lore.

**Shop:** [cryptideffects.com](https://www.cryptideffects.com)

**Elsewhere:** [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/cryptideffects/) and
[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@CryptidEffects)

## Why

Most of the other projects on this page exist because of this one. Cryptid
Effects is my pedal company: hand-wired guitar and bass effects, each named
for a cryptid or a bit of folklore, designed and assembled in the wilds beyond
Austin, Texas. I build the pedals I find interesting and enjoy playing, and
every design gets used on the road before it goes up for sale.

## The pedals

- **Indrid Cold.** The signature fuzz, named for the Smiling Man of Mothman
  lore. A high-gain transistor fuzz fronted with an asymmetric soft-clipping
  op amp gain stage and followed by a bypassable active tone control. Quiet at
  rest and very responsive to pick attack.
- **Raiju Fuzz.** A take on the 1970s Shin-Ei Super Fuzz with the transistors
  replaced by op amps for better chord clarity and a stronger octave, and the
  original tone control swapped for a resonant low-pass filter. Named for the
  thunder beast of Japanese mythology.
- **The Everlasting Tantrum.** An enhanced build of an unreleased fuzz from
  between two well-known pedal makers: three MPSA18s and a 2N2907A, a
  mid-70s ram's head tone stack that can be bypassed, and a control that
  pushes the circuit into self-oscillation.
- **The Siam Howler.** A fuzz born from chasing the *Siamese Dream* tone,
  named for the Ozark Howler by way of a rabbit hole that ended in Thailand.
- **Xaninos.** A filter pedal built around a state variable filter that
  splits the signal into high-pass, band-pass, and low-pass bands, so you can
  shape your tone and blend additional tones in parallel with it. Named for
  the changeling children of Asturian folklore.

Each pedal ships with an instruction manual, and the manuals are also on the
site.

## How it connects to the rest

The bench tools on this page grew out of building these. The
[Tayda UV Artwork Processor](/docs/projects/tayda-uv/) prepares the enclosure
artwork, [Sightings](/docs/projects/sightings/) matches and bins the
transistors, and [Akashic](/docs/projects/akashic/) lives at a Cryptid Effects
subdomain because the research for new circuits starts there.