DSM & Humboldt Electronics Black Clouds vs EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas
The DSM & Humboldt Electronics Black Clouds and the EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas are both pedals sharing saturated, full, sustaining. The EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas leans fuzzy and mid-forward.
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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.35% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- saturated
- full
- sustaining
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$258.32via Reverb
The DSM and Humboldt Electronics Black Clouds is a high-gain distortion and fuzz pedal providing massive, heavy saturation with the extreme gain density associated with doom, sludge, and high-wattage heavy amplifier sounds. Delivers thick, wall-of-gain character with heavy low-end weight and sustained harmonic saturation. Part of the DSM Humboldt Electronics collaborative boutique lineup of premium drive pedals. Made by DSM and Humboldt Electronics.
The EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas is a Big Muff style fuzz sustainer created with Boris guitarist Wata, recreating the sound of her favorite vintage fuzz, the Japanese Elk BM Sustainar, after EQD studied her actual pedal. It delivers heavy saturation with a gritty edge and a massive bottom end, yet keeps enough mids and top end to stay clear and dynamic and cut through sludge, with tons of sustain ranging from smooth distortion textures to ripped speaker fuzz. Its three-knob layout is familiar to Big Muff users but behaves unusually, with a hot output reaching unity around nine o'clock and a sustain knob that starts hot with no clean tones, and a reversed-feeling tone control that is brightest fully counterclockwise. Built for noisy, slow, and low sounds, it suits doom, sludge, stoner rock, and heavy psychedelic players chasing thick, sustaining fuzz with clarity.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Doom Metal
- Electronic
- Metal
- Stoner Rock
- Noise Rock
- fuzzy
- mid-forward