Blackstar HT-Metal vs Dallas Tuxedo 1959
The Blackstar HT-Metal and the Dallas Tuxedo 1959 are both pedals sharing mid-forward. The Blackstar HT-Metal leans warm and crunchy.
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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.- mid-forward
Blackstar HT-Metal
Blackstar · pedal
Dallas Tuxedo 1959
Dallas · pedal
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$267.69via Reverb
The Blackstar HT-Metal is a dual-channel valve distortion pedal driven by a real 300-volt tube circuit for amp-like high-gain tone. It provides one of the widest ranges of metal distortion available, from warm valve crunch and AC/DC style bark to gnawing, chainsaw high gain, with a clean mode that adds warmth and light breakup. Blackstars ISF control acts as a tone translator, sweeping the voicing from tight American high gain when counter-clockwise to mid-rich British character when clockwise. The valve front end gives it warmth, feel, and dynamic response closer to a high-gain amp than a typical solid-state distortion pedal.
The Dallas Tuxedo was a British-made valve-driven boost and treble booster unit from the late 1950s, part of the small wave of early standalone gain devices that predated the fuzz and overdrive pedal boom of the mid-1960s. Units like the Tuxedo were built to push an already-driven amplifier harder or add treble emphasis for lead work, functioning more like an outboard preamp stage than a modern stompbox. Dallas would later become closely associated with the Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Hard Rock
- Rock
- Metal
- Electronic
- warm
- crunchy
- tight
- sustaining