JHS Coyote - Sweep Continuously Through Swell/Fuzz/Octave & Everything Inbetween

The JHS Coyote is a new breed of octave fuzz, built on a lost and nearly mythical circuit that belongs to no known lineage. Instead of tracing back to the Octavia, Superfuzz or Tone Machine like every other octave fuzz on the market, the Coyote is a complete and faithful recreation of the obscure Moonrock Fuzz by G. S. Wyllie. Glenn Wyllie was a reclusive North Carolina builder who sandcast his own enclosures, etched his own boards and designed a fuzz that used a transformer in a completely unconventional way. It does not generate the octave. It shapes the entire response of the fuzz stage, creating a texture and feel that exists nowhere else.

The Coyote captures that wild experimentation and brings it into a modern, reliable pedal. One knob sweeps continuously through three distinct effects: gated swell, full-bodied fuzz and snarling octave-up. At its lowest setting, notes bloom in with a reversed-tape quality, rising from silence with a slow, breathing attack. At noon, the pedal becomes a powerful, chord-friendly fuzz with rich low end and aggressive mids, sitting somewhere in Tone Bender territory without copying any known circuit. Fully clockwise, the Coyote shifts into uneven, harmonically charged octave-up tones that land squarely in Hendrix territory, with snarling second-harmonic emphasis and a raw, expressive edge.

The transitions between these zones are continuous, and the pedal responds dramatically to your guitar's volume knob. Roll back and the Coyote becomes touch-sensitive and controlled. Dig in and the swell reappears. It cleans up better than any octave fuzz JHS has ever built, offering dynamic nuance that is almost unheard of in this category.

Put it first in your chain and run it into an overdriven amp or another drive pedal for the most iconic octave fuzz tones. Neck pickup above the twelfth fret brings out the strongest octave effect. Humbuckers push the swell and octave harder, while single coils offer more clarity. For players who love Hendrix, Jack White, Gary Clark Jr., Beck, Black Keys or the octave fuzz on John Mayer’s Belief, the Coyote is the missing piece. For fuzz scavengers who have tried everything and still want something new, this is it.

The Coyote is also a tribute to Glenn Wyllie himself, a builder whose work ended up on recordings and stages with Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, David Byrne and Joan Baez, yet whose name remains largely unknown. JHS rebuilt his circuit to honour a pioneer who deserved to be famous.