Mantic Effects Hivemind Fuzz & Octave

Mantic Effects Hivemind

The Mantic Effects Hivemind is Mantic’s clone of DOD’s buzz box.

It’s back!

The Mantic Hivemind is a replica of the FX33 Buzz Box which attempts to emulate the guitar sound of Melvins guitarist and singer King Buzzo.

The FX33 is basically a ProCo Rat distortion driving a vintage MXR Blue Box.

Marketing this with the tag line “It’s not broken, it’s supposed to sound like that.” and it was always an individual sound.

One of designer Jason Lamb’s true cult classics, this disgusting effect pairs a fuzzy 2-octave down square wave with a hissing distortion and rounds out with a variable LPF.

This octaver takes the distortion signal and then takes it down two octaves, so producing an extreme fuzz sound.

This is then mixed with the “normal” distortion sound.

So you can just use the sub-octave or just the distortion, or a mix of the two

The lower octaves can make the sound really big and then at extreme settings becomes almost synth-like, but still quite gritty

Each unit’s finish is a little bit different as the yellow paint is applied individually.

Controls:

The controls are fairly standard with the exception of the 15MB

• Hi
• Lvl
• Dist
• 15MB knob: This controls the octave down effect.

Above the 12th fret, you get grinding lead tones, and everywhere below will bring overtones and arpeggios.