The Strymon Canoga is an unbuffered, fully analog fuzz pedal featuring true bypass switching and mono input/output connections. The second release in Strymon's 'Series A' analog lineup, it operates without digital processing, MIDI, USB, or firmware. Physical controls consist of a Drive knob and an output Level knob in a chassis measuring 4.53" D x 2.83" W x 2.33" H (11.51 cm x 7.19 cm x 5.92 cm). Power requirements call for a 9V DC center-negative power supply drawing a minimum of 50mA.

Canoga is a simple pedal to use – there’s one knob for Drive and one for output Level – but the interaction between the guitar and Canoga’s input is critical, as is the interaction between it and your amp.

As with many fuzz pedals, Canoga works brilliantly plugged into an amp with a bit of hair on the tone already, similar to how Jimi Hendrix and other guitar greats of the 60s and 70s ran their rigs.

Additional versatility comes from the interaction between your guitar’s volume knob and the pedal’s input. 

Traditionally, unbuffered fuzz pedals like to be connected directly to your guitar, so that the circuitry can “see” your guitar’s pickups and volume pot. Full up on both of Canoga’s pots and your guitar volume pot gets you the full fuzz experience, and rolling back the volume on the guitar opens up a new world of semi-clean blues, rock, Americana and pop sounds. 

The rolled back sound stays clear in the high frequencies and doesn’t get muddy, so you might find that Canoga allows you to convincingly play riffs that you would normally employ a distortion pedal for, not a fuzz. 

Killer code only sounds killer when it’s hosted inside of an ideal analog environment, and even though we’re primarily known for our DSP prowess, our stuff wouldn’t sound the way that it does without our strong analog team.

The analog guys are always coming up with interesting designs, so we’ve launched the ‘Series A’ line of pure analog pedals to give them an outlet, with Canoga being the second in the line, alongside Fairfax. 

The designs you’ll be seeing in ‘Series A’ are intended to offer something different from traditional Strymon offerings, with no MIDI, USB, firmware or digital processing. These will be pedals that are unabashedly analog, which means it could get really interesting! Keep an eye out for more ‘Series A’ pedals as we go forward.

Fully analog circuit.

True Bypass.

Mono in/out.

Dimensions: 4.53″ deep x 2.83″ wide x 2.33″ tall (11.51 cm x 7.19 cm x 5.92 cm)

Power requirements — maximum 9 volts DC center-negative, with a minimum of 50mA (power supply NOT included.)

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