EarthQuaker Devices Blackout Gary vs Mr. Black White Widow
The EarthQuaker Devices Blackout Gary and the Mr. Black White Widow are both pedals sharing fuzzy. The Mr. Black White Widow leans saturated.
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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.33% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Experimental
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- fuzzy
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$199via Reverb
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.
The Mr. Black White Widow is a boutique fuzz pedal from Mr. Black Pedals of Portland, Oregon, delivering distinctive, harmonically complex fuzz character in their premium hand-built format. Mr. Black is known for unique, carefully voiced effects with refined circuit design.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Rock
- Blues
- Alternative Rock
- saturated