Death By Audio Fuzz War

About the Death By Audio Fuzz War

The Death By Audio Fuzz War is a big, aggressive, over-the-top fuzz, Muff-based but leaning heavily toward a Tonebender, with a unique tone control that sets it apart from a straight clone. It stays usable across a wide range of settings, works for guitar and bass, and is a physically large pedal that is also very loud.

In one paragraph

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Listings of the Death By Audio Fuzz War we watched from listing to sale typically went in 14 days (13 watched), a fast mover; it sells for a median of €110 over the last 90 days across 36 recorded sales, with most examples landing between €100 and €120. New, it costs €222 at Thomann (read 15 October 2026), so a used one at the median saves about 50%. The sale median is up 7% on the €103 of the 90 days before. There are 72 listings live right now across Reverb, eBay Germany, from €84 asking, a median ask 45% over the sale median. Figures computed 19 October 2026 by Doirado from cross-platform listing data.

What owners have said elsewhere

Paraphrased from 53 discussion threads among 11 owners, 2024-2026. No names, nothing quoted.

Owners are big on the Fuzz War. It is a huge, aggressive fuzz, Muff-based but leaning hard toward a Tonebender, and what people stress is how usable it stays across a wide range of settings, with a fair bit of your dry signal coming through and a genuinely different tone control, so it is not just another clone. Plenty call it their favourite fuzz, say everyone should own one for the sheer fun of it, and that theirs will never leave the board. It is a natural always-on or stacking fuzz: as a Muff-style circuit it can sit almost anywhere in the chain, owners love running an octave fuzz into it for a wall of sound, and the main thing to watch is amp headroom, since it can turn mushy without it. The honest caveat is level: it is extremely loud and can be shrill enough to make ears bleed and annoy sound engineers, so mind your volume. It also lands on a lot of best-fuzz short lists and is a popular DIY build.