Black Arts Toneworks Crown of Horns vs Way Huge Smalls Swollen Pickle Fuzz
The Black Arts Toneworks Crown of Horns and the Way Huge Smalls Swollen Pickle Fuzz are both pedals sharing scooped, sustaining. The Black Arts Toneworks Crown of Horns leans fuzzy and aggressive.
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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.44% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- scooped
- sustaining
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$189via 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 Way Huge Swollen Pickle Jumbo Fuzz is a Big Muff-style fuzz pedal from Way Huge, the boutique sub-brand of Jim Dunlop, offering expanded controls beyond the standard Big Muff layout. The Swollen Pickle features an internal Presence trimmer and Loudness trimmer alongside external Sustain, Tone, Scoop, and Crunch knobs, enabling wide-ranging frequency shaping from classic-rock crunch through shoegaze to sputtery destruction. It was originally designed by Jeorge Tripps, the founder of Way Huge, and became one of the brand defining products after Dunlop revived the Way Huge name. The Swollen Pickle covers an extensive range of Big Muff-style fuzz character across a single enclosure.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Stoner Rock
- Noise Rock
- Classic Rock
- Metal
- Shoegaze
- Blues
- Alternative Rock
- Rock
- fuzzy
- aggressive
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Occasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.- Busking
- Live