Beetronics

Filipe Pampuri moved to Los Angeles with a touring band, and when the band broke up he turned to pedal repair and DIY building to get by, putting in $1,700 alongside his brother to produce Beetronics' first batch of pedals. His earliest builds — the OctaHive octave fuzz and the WhoctaHell octave overdrive — were sometimes housed in repurposed tuna cans to save on enclosure costs, a detail the brand later turned into an actual product, the Tuna Fuzz. Beetronics is still a family operation, every pedal handmade in California with the bee-themed branding and bright yellow-and-black colourways that make it instantly recognisable on a pedalboard. Distinctive collabs and new bee-named releases are what we cover most. Here's what we've written.