EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas vs JHS Pedals JHS Muffuletta
The EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas and the JHS Pedals JHS Muffuletta are both pedals sharing transparent, sustaining, full. The EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas leans fuzzy and saturated. The JHS Pedals JHS Muffuletta leans smooth and dark.
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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.48% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- transparent
- sustaining
- full
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$229via Reverb
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.
The JHS Muffuletta is a six-in-one Big Muff style fuzz that houses faithful recreations of five classic Muff circuits plus an original JHS voicing, selectable with a rotary switch and sharing Volume, Tone, and Sustain controls. Its modes cover the 1973 Ram's Head, dark with less gain and beloved of David Gilmour and J Mascis, the aggressive Triangle with a rougher edge and harsher attack, the classic Pi, the brighter, more midrange-forward Civil War with less gain, the Russian with less clarity and low end for a garage sound, and the JHS Original, a more powerful, less compressed take with a haunting midrange. This makes it a definitive Big Muff reference, letting players compare and use the major Muff variants from one box. It suits psychedelic, stoner, doom, shoegaze, grunge, and lead-focused players wanting thick, creamy, sustaining fuzz with the flavor of multiple eras.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Metal
- Stoner Rock
- Noise Rock
- Shoegaze
- Grunge
- Rock
- Alternative Rock
- fuzzy
- saturated
- mid-forward
- smooth
- dark
- scooped