Airis Effects 51-Filthy vs Subdecay Blackstar Distortion
The Airis Effects 51-Filthy and the Subdecay Blackstar Distortion are both pedals. The Airis Effects 51-Filthy leans tight and high gain.
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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.35% — somewhat different
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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 Subdecay Blackstar Distortion is a distortion pedal from the Oregon-based boutique builder, known for characterful modulation and drive circuits produced in small runs. Subdecay tends toward distinctive, sometimes unconventional voicings rather than generic drive curves, but coverage of this particular model is too thin to pin down its exact gain range or control layout here, so a listing photo or the seller is the more reliable source for that detail.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Hard Rock
- Alternative Rock
- Metal
- Rock
- tight
- high gain
- crunchy