DGN Custom Guitars V3 Blaster Board vs Spaceman Effects Atlas IV
The DGN Custom Guitars V3 Blaster Board and the Spaceman Effects Atlas IV are both pedals. The Spaceman Effects Atlas IV leans warm. Current prices: $45 vs $179.
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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.- alternative
- blues
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$45via Reverb
$179via Reverb
This entry covers the DGN Custom Guitars V3 Blaster Board, a product from a small custom builder whose name suggests a guitar-focused maker despite the item itself being catalogued as a pedal, likely a boost or gain-staging circuit board given the Blaster naming convention common to that category of effect. Detailed, independently verifiable specifications for this specific version 3 iteration are limited in publicly available sources, so specific circuit details, control layout, and intended function should be confirmed directly with the maker rather than assumed from the product name alone.
The Spaceman Effects Atlas IV is a boutique preamp and boost pedal, the fourth revision of Spaceman's Atlas design. It delivers a warm, harmonically rich clean boost that thickens the midrange and adds weight without markedly altering the underlying tone, and pushes a valve amp into natural breakup as the level is raised. It is built as an always-on preamp stage as much as a solo boost, hand-built in Portland, Oregon in Spaceman's limited-run format.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- rock
- classic rock
- warm