Death By Audio Crossover Fuzz Dual-Band Fuzz vs EarthQuaker Devices Blackout Gary
The Death By Audio Crossover Fuzz Dual-Band Fuzz and the EarthQuaker Devices Blackout Gary are both pedals sharing dynamic. The Death By Audio Crossover Fuzz Dual-Band Fuzz leans saturated and analog warmth. The EarthQuaker Devices Blackout Gary leans fuzzy.
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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.36% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Experimental
- Rock
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- dynamic
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$199via Reverb
The Death By Audio Crossover Fuzz is a dual-band filter-fuzz pedal from the Brooklyn, New York boutique builder, splitting the guitar signal into high and low frequency bands and applying DBA aggressive fuzz saturation to each independently. A Freq control sweeps two analog resonant filters in tandem, enabling surgical frequency carving or chaotic oscillating madness. The result is a screaming, swirling fuzz that can produce conventional heavy fuzz tones alongside experimental, resonant, filter-modulated textures. Suited for experimental rock, noise, psychedelic, and players seeking unconventional fuzz tones beyond vintage circuits.
The EarthQuaker Devices Blackout Gary is a limited all-black edition of the Akron, Ohio boutique builder's Gary pedal, combining an opamp overdrive circuit with a gated fuzz for a versatile two-character gain tool. Gary functions as an expressive opamp-driven overdrive at lower settings and engages a gated fuzz character at higher gain settings, producing two distinct tonal characters from a single circuit. The Blackout edition shares the identical circuit with the standard Gary, differing only in its all-black cosmetic finish. Suited for blues, fuzz, and experimental players.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Blues
- saturated
- analog warmth
- aggressive
- fuzzy