Behringer Mimics the Lovetone Ring Stinger, an Iconic Ring Mod/Fuzz Pedal Featured on Radiohead’s Kid A]

Just a few weeks after unveiling its clone of the Lovetone Meatball envelope filter pedal, Behringer is plundering the boutique pedal manufacturer’s vaults once again with a recreation of the Ring Stinger, a quirky ring mod/fuzz pedal released in the ’90s that promises to “spice up your tone”.

Behringer’s take on the Ring Stinger combines the metallic, discordant sounds of ring modulation with a punchy octave fuzz circuit, resulting in a creatively experimental pedal that opens up “an entirely new soundscape” for “guitarists, synth players, bassists, harpists, electric violinists and everything in between”.

Ring Stinger’s onboard VCO offers a choice of four waveforms with which to craft the unearthly tones of its ring modulator, alongside controls for Depth, VCO Frequency and Timbre for further tone-shaping. These are joined by controls for LFO Rate and Waveform, a Drive control for introducing distortion, a Blend control for dialling in the dry/wet mix, and footswitches for engaging the Octave pitch-shifter and LFO.

There’s a healthy amount of ins and outs onboard, with expression pedal/CV inputs for both LFO Depth and VCO Frequency, and a Carrier input for routing in external signals that replace the VCO – this gives you the opportunity to get pretty creative with your sound design, ring modulating your guitar against a synth, drum machine, or anything else that you please. You also get a VCO Output too, in case you want to route the internal oscillator elsewhere.