Black Arts Toneworks Crown of Horns vs Electro-Harmonix J Mascis Ram's Head Big Muff
The Black Arts Toneworks Crown of Horns and the Electro-Harmonix J Mascis Ram's Head Big Muff are both pedals sharing high gain, sustaining. The Black Arts Toneworks Crown of Horns leans fuzzy and aggressive. The Electro-Harmonix J Mascis Ram's Head Big Muff leans saturated. Current prices: $189 vs $105.
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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.34% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- high gain
- sustaining
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$189via Reverb
$105via 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 Electro-Harmonix J Mascis Fuzz is a signature fuzz pedal endorsed by J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr, delivering the heavy, sustaining fuzz tones associated with Mascis neo-psychedelic rock and shoegaze lead playing. J Mascis is known for his use of Big Muff-style fuzz into loud amplifiers, producing the heavily saturated, singing lead tones that define Dinosaur Jr recordings from the late 1980s through the present. The signature pedal provides a fuzz character suited to heavy psych rock, alternative, and shoegaze applications where maximum fuzz density and sustain are the primary requirements.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Stoner Rock
- Noise Rock
- Rock
- Shoegaze
- Alternative Rock
- fuzzy
- aggressive
- saturated