Dunlop MXR M94SE Super Badass Distortion vs Walrus Audio Ages Five-State Overdrive
The Dunlop MXR M94SE Super Badass Distortion and the Walrus Audio Ages Five-State Overdrive are both pedals sharing bright, saturated, compressed. The Dunlop MXR M94SE Super Badass Distortion leans crunchy and high gain. The Walrus Audio Ages Five-State Overdrive leans transparent and 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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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- bright
- saturated
- compressed
- silicon
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$199via 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 Ages Five-State Overdrive is an overdrive pedal built around a five-position rotary switch offering distinct clipping modes, from low-gain silicon soft clipping to high-gain silicon hard clipping, each with its own tonal character ranging from smooth and compressed to punchy and saturated. A parallel-path topology lets players blend the dry signal with the effected path via a dedicated Dry control, alongside Gain, Volume, Bass, and Treble knobs and a boost/cut low-frequency control, making it as usable for transparent boost as for hard-hitting saturation.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Classic Rock
- Alternative Rock
- Metal
- alternative
- country
- blues
- crunchy
- high gain
- transparent
- fuzzy