Fender

When speaking about Fender the image of the Stratocaster comes to everybody's mind. The commercial success of Fender is iconic and none of the guitar manufacturers in the world was able to sell their electric guitars as Fender did, and it goes on until today.

In 1946 Clarence Leonidas Fender, also called Leo Fender, founded the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company in Fullerton, California.

Fender is famous for it’s electric guitars and bass guitars but the manufacturer produces and distributes also acoustic guitars, electric basses, mandolins, banjos, electric violins, guitar amplifiers, bass amplifiers and PA equipment, found in nearly every genre: rock ‘n’ roll, country and western, jazz, rhythm and blues, and many others.

The legendary Fender instruments such as the Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars and Precision and Jazz bass guitars are globally recognized as design classics. Today Fender not only continues to make their iconic instruments but also own other well renowned musical instruments brands such as: Squier, Jackson, Charvel and Gretsch guitars. Furthermore Fender does a collaboration with Eddie Van Halen to make the EVH guitars and amplifiers.

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Fender Pugilist Distortion

Pugilist DistortionIn 2020 fender released the Pugilist in a range of great pedals that improved massively over previous years' offerings. These pedals had more than just great tone, they oozed with great features too. Distortion StackingThe thing which sets the pugilist aside from over distortions is that it's actually 2 in one box.Despite there being many controls, they're very simple:2 x Tone2 x gainLevelBlend (switchable on/off)Bass Boost switch. You simply dial in the gain and tone amount for each distortion and choose how to mix them.Mixing it upThere are three different options of mixing the distortions not two as most people would lead you to believe. Firstly you can run them directly into each over which will push the second drive into obliteration, wonderful. Secondly you can set each side differently and us the blend control to find your perfect mixture of parallel goodness. Thirdly by turning the blend control entirely to one side or the other you will have just one distortion engaged.Top TipTo turn the pugilist into a two channel beast try the following. Set channel A with low gain and the tone slightly more trebly. Set Channel B to be a great sounding medium/high distortion on its own. Turn the blend control totally to the right and use the "series/blend" switch to toggle "channels". The result will be a great sounding distortion with the ability to boost it by kicking the switch up.The Pugilist's other featuresThe bass boost switch is great for adding body when practicing at home and getting out of the bassists way in a band environment. Each of the knobs has its own led for clarity on stage but you can also turn these off to avoid blinding yourself. Battery compartments can often be a pain to get to so Fender added an easy to access port on the bottom panel. This simply flips down without having to remove the pugilist from your pedalboard.