Dunlop MXR M94SE Super Badass Distortion vs Walrus Audio Iron Horse V3
The Dunlop MXR M94SE Super Badass Distortion and the Walrus Audio Iron Horse V3 are both pedals sharing high gain, compressed. The Dunlop MXR M94SE Super Badass Distortion leans crunchy and saturated. The Walrus Audio Iron Horse V3 leans mid-forward and tight.
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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.45% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- high gain
- compressed
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$186.99via Reverb
The MXR M94SE Super Badass Distortion is a high-gain distortion pedal from MXR by Jim Dunlop, delivering wide-range distortion with a three-band active EQ and a broad gain spectrum covering everything from medium overdrive to extreme distortion. The Super Badass is designed to cover the widest possible range of drive styles in a single enclosure, suited to both classic rock and modern high-gain applications. Internal DIP switches allow clipping diode selection between different clipping characters including hard silicon clipping and softer asymmetric options, enabling circuit-level voicing customization.
The Walrus Audio Iron Horse LM308 V3 is a high-gain distortion built on the LM308 op-amp at the heart of the ProCo RAT, delivering meaty, punchy, gnarly dirt that gets genuinely rowdy in front of an amp. It is not a straight RAT clone: the highs are rolled back and the bass more accentuated, giving a thicker, darker and slightly fuzzier voice with a smoother midrange, less presence and less flattening of the guitar's natural low-end bloom than the original. The V3's headline change is a continuous clipping dial that blends between different clipping diodes, reaching hybrid textures no single-diode circuit can produce, from tight and compressed to loose and open. It adds top-mounted jacks, a soft-relay true bypass switch and a fixed volume drop-off with the distortion knob at minimum.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Classic Rock
- Alternative Rock
- Metal
- punk
- metal
- hard rock
- crunchy
- saturated
- mid-forward
- tight