Black Arts Toneworks Forest vs Carl Martin Rock Drive
The Black Arts Toneworks Forest and the Carl Martin Rock Drive are both pedals sharing saturated. The Black Arts Toneworks Forest leans fuzzy. The Carl Martin Rock Drive leans crunchy and sustaining. Current prices: $189 vs $89.
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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.33% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Classic Rock
- Rock
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- saturated
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$189via Reverb
$89via Reverb
The Black Arts Toneworks Black Forest is an overdrive and fuzz pedal inspired by the classic Colorsound Overdriver circuit, featuring a six-position selector switch that controls gain staging, voicing, and low-end content. Through a clean amplifier the Forest functions as an overdrive; through a dirty amplifier it transforms into a super-raunchy, high-saturation effect. The six-way selector covers multiple rock voicings from vintage overdrive through to heavy fuzz character. Suited for classic rock, stoner rock, and heavy psychedelic applications.
The Carl Martin Rock Drive is an overdrive pedal often described as a high-end Tube Screamer, delivering more gain than Carl Martin's own Crunch Drive while keeping a neutral voice that respects the guitar's natural tone rather than imposing a strong midrange coloration. It faithfully emulates a quality tube amp pushed into natural saturation, capable of everything from the clean-to-crunch character of a Fender Twin to the aggressive roar of a Marshall JCM800. Attack and Edge controls reshape the mid and high EQ for a range of classic rock variations, and the circuit stays unusually transparent and noise-free so the amp's own character comes through. It suits rock players wanting authentic tube-amp-like overdrive without the typical mid-hump coloration of many drive pedals.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Stoner Rock
- Hard Rock
- Metal
- fuzzy
- crunchy
- sustaining
- transparent
- mid-forward