FuzzBillion

Name: FuzzBillion
Brand: Teaching Machines
Availability: OnlineOnly

Fuzz

Distortion

Overdrive

12 numeric wheels with 10 billion combinations. Germanium/silicon/LED clipping. Octave fuzz and PLL.

Teaching Machines is a Wales-based boutique operation run by Frank Naughton and Mat Wigley, known for the £1,250 Wellspring spring reverb. Naughton collaborated with Grindle of Life Is Unfair Audio Devices to create the FuzzBillion.

The FuzzBillion uses 12 numeric rotary wheels (0-9 settings each) controlled by +/- buttons, claiming 10 billion distortion combinations. Completely analog circuit employs germanium, silicon, and LED diodes across multiple stages: input boost, tone, clipping amplifier (3 wheels), octave fuzz (2 wheels), PLL squarewave fuzz, bias offset, output clipping, and output tone. Side button switches between guitar and transformer-balanced line level. Volume knob provides output control.

Subtle overdrive to screaming distortion. Settings can be documented for total recall. Works with guitar, bass, and synths. Built in UK.