Black Country Customs Monolith vs Keeley Filaments
The Black Country Customs Monolith and the Keeley Filaments are both pedals sharing tight, saturated, mid-forward. The Black Country Customs Monolith leans warm and crunchy. Current prices: $119 vs $189.
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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.53% — moderately similar
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Metal
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- tight
- saturated
- mid-forward
- high gain
- transparent
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$119via Reverb
$189via Reverb
The Black Country Customs Monolith is a three-mode boutique distortion pedal handmade in the UK by Laney Amplification under its BCC sub-brand. Three modes -- Overdrive, Distortion 1, and Distortion 2 -- span tubescreamer-style overdrive through British plexi crunch to high-gain heavy distortion in a single enclosure. A Range control cuts low-end content before the gain stages, enabling tight metal tones or warm vintage saturation. Four controls total: Distortion, Range, Volume, and Tone. Covers classic rock through heavy British distortion without digital processing.
The Keeley Filaments is a high-gain distortion pedal from Keeley Electronics delivering tight, focused, harmonically rich saturation suited to modern rock and metal applications. The circuit provides powerful gain with controlled low-end tightness and mid-presence for note definition in dense playing contexts. The Filaments is positioned as Keeley's primary high-gain distortion offering, providing the saturated, cutting character needed for modern heavy music without the loose, unfocused quality of some fuzz-based high-gain designs.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Country
- Hard Rock
- Classic Rock
- Electronic
- Rock
- warm
- crunchy
- sustaining