ezhi&aka was started as a pedal building hobby of two friends. Their nicknames gave the future project its name.
Now it’s me, Alexey Kruglov (aka), who develops, tests and builds pedals in Yaroslavl, Russia.
The other one, Egor Urazbaev (ezhi), was crucial to get this going but moved on and is now a Middle+ Test Automation Engineer!
ezhi&aka focuses on broken sounds, weird concepts and creative usefulness of these beautiful noisemakers.
That being said, these pedals can be harsh, noisy, lofi, sound broken or completely messed up.
The main philosophy behind the designs is trying to create strange but captivating sounds in a weirdly beautiful package using the limited possibilities old 90s audio chips provide.
This adds to the whole weirdness and that true low sound quality.
I intentionally use minimum filtering, allow ticks and squeals to pass into the signal – but only when the pedal is on.
There are tons of great effects on the market which sound clean and gorgeous.
And I am here to provide broken sounds.
