Dusky Electronics Augustus w/Keeley Rotten Apple and Boss SD1 [Quick Demo]

Today we're having a quick listen to a cool take on the classic octave fuzz - the Dusky Electronic 'Augustus'. I like Octavia's after all overdrive and fuzz and you can see why in this video. Fans of Hendrix will note he runs his after the wah (first in the chain) then into a Fuzz Face and Univibe. This isn't a Hendrix tone video, but worth pointing that out since he's synonymous with this effect. In the demo I quickly run through clean, then fire up the Augustus then I mix in more fuzz (Keeley Rotten Apple) and an overdrive (Boss Super Over-Drive SD1) to show how it changes the sustain and rasp factor. Around 20 seconds in, I briefly roll off the volume which is what you have to do with any Octavia or Octave Fuzz to get that raspy clipping tone Hendrix seemed to like.
The pedal has 4 knobs: meat, light, more and heat. I can do another video, if there's interest in what each of those do, but I dialed this in to my desired tone and played a few riffs to illustrate what it can do at what I consider its best.
Settings:
Meat at 2 o-clock
Light at 5 o-clock
More at 11 o-clock
Heat at 5 o-clock
In their words:
"Augustus is an octave fuzz in the spirit-though not at all the same design-as the Octavia designed by Roger Mayer in the late 1960s for Jimi Hendrix. Like the Octavia, the Augustus works by rectifying the audio signal fed into it, folding each wave in two to double its frequency, severely mangling the waveform in the process. Soaring leads, synth-like timbres, echoes of ring mod, giant robot power chords, percussive stabs-all of these and more are available with deft manipulation of the HEAT knob and your own playing technique.
MOSFET input and output amplifiers give Augustus a responsive, dynamic feel and a high impedance input buffer lets Augustus sound the same wherever it is in your pedal chain. A broad frequency response allows Augustus to sound good with any electrified instrument, so you can use it on guitar, bass, baritone, synthesizer, or anything else that makes an electronic signal."
This demo was made with a Fender Custom Shop '62 Strat with a set of pickups wound by Abby Ybarra, 9-46 Ernie Ball Hybrid Slinky's plugged into a Marshall DSL15C. Nothing special mic wise, just an iPhone 12 Pro on a tripod.
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