Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Neo vs Electro-Harmonix Holy Stain

The Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Neo and the Electro-Harmonix Holy Stain are both pedals sharing spring. The Electro-Harmonix Holy Stain leans ambient. Current prices: $122.69 vs $131.82.

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.

46% somewhat different

Shared tone character
citedDerived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.
  • spring
Citation fame
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0%
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Price

$122.69via Reverb

$131.82via Reverb

Description

The Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Neo is the most compact version of EHX's long-running Holy Grail reverb line, offering Spring, Hall, and Room reverb modes through a single Reverb knob that blends dry and wet signal. The spring mode captures the boingy, splashy character of a real spring tank, while hall and room modes add smoother, more spacious ambience without the metallic edge cheaper digital reverbs can have. Despite its minimal single-control interface, it delivers the same core Holy Grail voicing that made the original a pedalboard staple, in the smallest possible EHX nano-style enclosure. It suits players wanting simple, reliable, good-sounding reverb without deep programming or a large footprint.

The Electro-Harmonix Holy Stain is a multi-effect reverb pedal from Electro-Harmonix, combining reverb, tremolo, pitch shifting, and distortion in one unit with a mode selector for choosing between effect combinations. The Holy Stain offers spring reverb, hall reverb, tremolo-plus-reverb, and pitch-shifted reverb modes. A four-knob design with Mode selector covers all the integrated effect combinations in one pedal.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
  • Ambient
Tonal lean
  • ambient
Good for
citedOccasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.
  • Live
  • Studio
  • Busking
  • Live
  • Studio

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