Electro-Harmonix Pocket Metal Muff vs Tru-Fi Floyd Fuzz
The Electro-Harmonix Pocket Metal Muff and the Tru-Fi Floyd Fuzz are both pedals. The Electro-Harmonix Pocket Metal Muff leans saturated. The Tru-Fi Floyd Fuzz leans sustaining and smooth. Current prices: $121.66 vs $199.95.
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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.45% — somewhat different
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$121.66via Reverb
$199.95via Reverb
The Electro-Harmonix Pocket Metal Muff is a compact, portable high-gain metal distortion pedal from EHX, delivering the core Metal Muff distortion character in a pocket-sized enclosure. It provides the heavy saturation and three-band EQ of the Metal Muff line in a reduced physical format suited to players who need the Metal Muff character without the footprint of the full-size pedal. The Pocket Metal Muff delivers extreme saturation for metal and hard rock rhythm and lead playing, with all the essential gain and EQ controls in a convenient, travel-ready enclosure.
The Tru-Fi Floyd Fuzz is named for Pink Floyd and David Gilmour and is built using original vintage-style transistors and through-hole components rather than modern surface-mount parts, offered in five distinct versions covering different eras of the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff lineage. The Tri-Angle version recreates the original, milder EHX design; the Ram's Head version delivers classic 1970s fuzz distortion; the Creamy Dreamer is a late-1990s design with more gain; and the Red Army and Russian versions revisit 1980s reissues of the classic Big Muff circuit. Reviewers describe it as a fat-sounding, classic Muff-style fuzz built to withstand heavy live use. Suited to classic rock and psychedelic players chasing specific eras of Gilmour-associated Big Muff tone rather than a single generic fuzz voicing.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Metal
- Alternative Rock
- Hard Rock
- Rock
- Classic Rock
- saturated
- sustaining
- smooth
- full
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Occasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.- Busking
- Live