Meet the TONECAT Heavy Metal Cats — a collection of handcrafted guitar and bass pedals built in Melbourne, Australia, and finished in raw brushed aluminium.
From bass preamp to synth fuzz, vintage-style silicon fuzz to hard-hitting drive, every Heavy Metal Cat has its own personality — but they all share the same stripped-back aluminium look and TONECAT's small-batch handmade DNA.
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VANISHING TAIL - PLL SYNTH FUZZ ($319)
Some cats don't like staying in one octave.
Vanishing Tail is a wild PLL synth fuzz that turns your guitar into something stranger — with glitchy tracking, synth-like textures and unpredictable fuzz tones.
For when ordinary fuzz isn't weird enough.
FUZZ À L'HUILe - SILICON FUZZ ($99)
Fuzz à l'Huile is TONECAT's oily take on the classic vintage silicon Fuzz Face-style circuit, using BC108 transistors and an adjustable internal bias trim.
Smooth sustain, vintage-style bite and rich harmonic fuzz — And at $99, it's probably the most affordable gourmet fuzz you'll ever adopt.
CATZILLA - DRIVE & DISTORTION ($219)
Small cat. Very large appetite for gain.
Catzilla is TONECAT's big, hungry drive machine — built for thick overdrive, aggressive distortion and tones that can push your amp into serious territory.
No subtle entrance required.
BASSPRESSO V2 - BASS PREAMP & DI ($289)
Brewed for bass. Served with bite.
Basspresso V2 is TONECAT's handcrafted analog bass preamp and DI, with Drive, Low EQ, High EQ, HF Harmonics and Mix controls for everything from subtle warmth to rich, driven bass tones.
A serious piece of bass hardware with a decidedly unserious name.
ONE FAMILY. DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES.
The Heavy Metal Cats aren't designed to sound the same. They're designed to belong together.
Each pedal has its own circuit, character and role — but the raw brushed aluminium enclosure gives the collection a shared visual identity. Put four of them on a board and suddenly your pedalboard looks like a very small, very noisy metal band.
HANDMADE IN MELBOURNE
Every TONECAT pedal starts here in Melbourne, Australia.
Small batches. Hand assembly. Individual testing. No giant factory. No conveyor belt of identical cats.
Just good circuits, good components, a soldering iron, and an unreasonable number of cats.
That's what makes TONECAT pedals different — they're not just effects. They're little pieces of the workshop that you can put on your pedalboard.