EarthQuaker Devices Hummingbird V4 vs EarthQuaker Devices Hummingbird

The EarthQuaker Devices Hummingbird V4 and the EarthQuaker Devices Hummingbird are both pedals sharing shimmer. The EarthQuaker Devices Hummingbird V4 leans modulated and lush.

Similarity
citedBlended 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.

49% — somewhat different

Shared genres
citedGenres both listings are associated with.
  • Experimental
Shared tone character
citedDerived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.
  • shimmer
Citation fame
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Price

$178.54via Reverb

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Description

The EarthQuaker Devices Hummingbird is a choppy, sawtooth tremolo modeled on the vintage repeat percussion units found in old Valco and Vox amplifiers. Rather than a smooth sine wave, it produces a hard, staccato chop that ranges from classic 1950s shimmering tremolo at slower speeds to a synthy, delay like stutter of short pings and, at the fastest settings, near ring modulation textures. With a four speed range switch and simple controls, it covers a wide rhythmic spectrum. It suits surf, garage, psychedelic, indie and experimental players who want a percussive, rhythmic tremolo with vintage character and the ability to push into stuttering, synthy and almost ring mod territory.

The EarthQuaker Devices Hummingbird is a choppy, sawtooth tremolo modeled on the vintage Repeat Percussion circuit found in old Valco and Vox amplifiers, capable of everything from classic shimmering 1950s-style tremolo to a synthy, delay-like chop. As the original version in the Hummingbird lineage, it established the core circuit later refined by V2 and V3 with additional speed settings and jack placement changes, while retaining the same fundamentally choppy, percussive tremolo character that defines the whole series.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
  • Classic Rock
  • Indie
  • Alternative Rock
  • Ambient
  • Rock
Tonal lean
  • modulated
  • lush
  • dynamic
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