EarthQuaker Devices Palisades vs Keeley Muse Driver
The EarthQuaker Devices Palisades and the Keeley Muse Driver are both pedals. The Keeley Muse Driver leans harmonically rich.
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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.46% — somewhat different
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.The EarthQuaker Devices Palisades is a Tube Screamer-derived mega overdrive from EQD, offering extensive tonal control over the classic TS circuit through six clipping mode switches covering no diodes, LED, MOSFET, asymmetrical silicon, symmetrical silicon, and Schottky diode options, two output stage selections, and a five-position bandwidth switch. The Palisades has been reviewed by Guitar.com and MusicRadar as one of the most comprehensive TS-derivative overdrives available, praised for taking the core Tube Screamer platform into highly controlled territory without losing the fundamental character. It suits blues, rock, and country players who want the classic TS midrange smooth saturation with surgical control over the clipping character.
The Keeley Muse Driver, the follow-up to the Super AT Mod, is a 4-in-1 overdrive built with Andy Timmons, combining JFET transistors, germanium diodes, and op-amp gain stages for harmonically rich overdrive. Controls include Tone, Drive, and Level, with two independent toggle switches offering AT (Low-Cut) or RK (Low Boost/Phat) Tone Mods and AT (Asymmetrical LED + Silicon) or RK (Dual Germanium) Drive Clipping Mods, giving four genuinely distinct playable voicings depending on toggle combination.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Alternative Rock
- Blues Rock
- Country
- Rock
- Blues
- Electronic
- harmonically rich