Airis Effects 51-Filthy vs Fortin Amplification Tempest Overdrive
The Airis Effects 51-Filthy and the Fortin Amplification Tempest Overdrive are both pedals sharing tight, high gain. The Airis Effects 51-Filthy leans aggressive and bright.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.25% — quite different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Alternative Rock
- Metal
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- tight
- high gain
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$169via Reverb
The Airis Effects 51-Filthy is a tight, articulate high-gain preamp pedal from the Ontario, Canada-based boutique builder founded by Richard Seidlitz in 2014, voiced somewhere between a block-letter EVH 5150 and a Diezel Hagen, delivering crunchy, saturated distortion without losing note definition even at aggressive gain settings. Handbuilt in small runs and backed by a two-year warranty, it represents Airis's focus on high-gain metal and hard rock tones within a boutique pedal format, aimed at players wanting studio-quality amp-in-a-box distortion rather than a simple fuzz or overdrive circuit.
The Fortin Amplification Tempest Overdrive is an overdrive pedal from Canadian boutique metal gear maker Fortin Amplification, positioned as a high-quality overdrive with the tight, defined character of the Fortin design philosophy adapted for overdrive territory rather than maximum-gain distortion. The Tempest provides the precision and articulation of Fortin engineering in an overdrive format, suited to players who want Fortin quality and character for moderate-gain applications alongside or instead of their higher-gain Fortin pedals. A signature version for the band Architects exists as a separate production run.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Hard Rock
- aggressive
- bright