Some of you guys know that madbean, myself, and pickdropper have started our own effects pedal company called Function f(x). It's been a long process, and although we're not quite ready to formally launch with our first products, we have made a lot of progress and generated a lot of really fun/cool circuit ideas. So we wanted to have a side gig under which we could release fun/wacky circuits and share them with the world, and so 424 Studios was born. And actually it's not the whole Function f(x) crew in on this, it's just me, Dave, and Brian, and we're doing all the fun stuff we want to do that isn't related to the main business.
The name comes from our shared love for the old Tascam 424 Protastudio 4-track. All three of us slaved away on a 424 during the early-mid 90s creating music and testing out ideas. 424 Studios is our way to create new things and test out ideas. And what better place to have a home that the wonderful and wacky community at I Love Fuzz??
We plan to do several types of products: some short run production pedals, some PCBs, and even some projects that can be etched and built without buying anything from us. We're currently working on a couple classic fuzz pedals (Fuzz Rite is first) and hope to have some original fuzz and modulation and delay projects released over the next couple months.
So keep an eye out on this subforum. The first short-run fuzz will be dropping over the next couple weeks.