Caroline Guitar Company Shigeharu vs Electro-Harmonix Ram's Head Big Muff
The Caroline Guitar Company Shigeharu and the Electro-Harmonix Ram's Head Big Muff are both pedals sharing fuzzy, sustaining, smooth. The Caroline Guitar Company Shigeharu leans warm. The Electro-Harmonix Ram's Head Big Muff leans mid-forward. Current prices: $219 vs $98.74.
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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.47% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- fuzzy
- sustaining
- smooth
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$219via Reverb
$98.74via Reverb
The Caroline Guitar Company Shigeharu combines Muff-style fuzz with the punch of a classic overdrive using cascading hybrid gain stages, providing sweet sustain and clarity with improved punch and definition relative to a standard Big Muff circuit. The name references Japanese aesthetic influences. Designed to blend the smooth sustain of fuzz with the attack and punch of overdrive in a single cascading circuit. Made by Caroline Guitar Company.
The Electro-Harmonix Ram's Head Big Muff reissues the early-1970s Ram's Head Muff, known for a creamy, articulate fuzz with exceptional sustain, rich harmonics, and a distinct mid scoop suited to soaring leads and thick wall-of-sound rhythm. It is growlier in the midrange than Russian-style and triangle Muffs, with smoother, more sonorous sustained notes, splitting the difference between a triangle's silicon fizz and a Russian Muff's smooth contours. It has less low end than many Big Muffs, making it tighter, more controlled, and more articulate, with the mid scoop present but balanced enough to preserve string definition. Famous for screaming leads and long, violin-like sustained bends in the David Gilmour vein, it sits between classic fuzz and distortion. With Volume, Tone, and Sustain it suits psychedelic, classic rock, shoegaze, and lead-focused players.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Alternative Rock
- Rock
- Classic Rock
- Shoegaze
- warm
- mid-forward