Black Arts Toneworks Crown of Horns vs Caroline Guitar Company Shigeharu
The Black Arts Toneworks Crown of Horns and the Caroline Guitar Company Shigeharu are both pedals sharing fuzzy, high gain, sustaining. The Black Arts Toneworks Crown of Horns leans aggressive. The Caroline Guitar Company Shigeharu leans smooth and warm. Current prices: $189 vs $219.
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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.46% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- fuzzy
- high gain
- sustaining
- compressed
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$189via Reverb
$219via Reverb
The Black Arts Toneworks Crown of Horns is a high-gain fuzz based on an OpAmp Big Muff circuit with a custom hybrid tone section that sits tonally between the Pharaoh mid-forward voicing and the LSTR scooped character. A Horns switch bypasses the tone stack entirely, producing a flat, unfiltered wall of fuzz and volume that is highly interactive with amp settings. Designed for heavy psych, doom, and stoner rock where high-gain fuzz with flexible tonal shaping is the goal. Made by Black Arts Toneworks.
The Caroline Guitar Company Shigeharu combines Muff-style fuzz with the punch of a classic overdrive using cascading hybrid gain stages, providing sweet sustain and clarity with improved punch and definition relative to a standard Big Muff circuit. The name references Japanese aesthetic influences. Designed to blend the smooth sustain of fuzz with the attack and punch of overdrive in a single cascading circuit. Made by Caroline Guitar Company.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Stoner Rock
- Noise Rock
- Alternative Rock
- Rock
- aggressive
- smooth
- warm