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Rush Pep

Rush Pep

ManufacturerWEM Watkins Electric Music
FunctionEffect (Fuzz)
CountryUK
Form FactorFootswitch
Signal PathAnalog Hardware
LinksWEM Site
NotesThis mid 60s two transistor Fuzz Box was designed by Pepe Rush an Italian electronics engineer. I'm indebted to fuzz sound expert Graham Green for the pictures of his Rush Pep and the Project V fuzz boxes below. Graham also owns an interesting prototype called Fuzzy which probably evolved into the Rush Pep. John Lennon using a WEM Rush Pep fuzz box at Abbey Road. This box was possibly used on Paperback Writer