Electronic Audio Experiments Glaive Octave Fuzz vs NUX Metal Core Deluxe
The Electronic Audio Experiments Glaive Octave Fuzz and the NUX Metal Core Deluxe are both pedals sharing analog warmth. The NUX Metal Core Deluxe leans high gain and transparent. Current prices: $249 vs $79.
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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.32% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- analog warmth
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$249via Reverb
$79via Reverb
The Electronic Audio Experiments Glaive is an analog op-amp octave fuzz pedal from EAE, described by the brand as their most dastardly drive effect, and reviewed by Guitar Pedal X as their heaviest fuzz with high-pass and high-cut filters and a built-in noise gate. The Glaive occupies the extreme end of the EAE fuzz lineup, using an op-amp circuit to produce a dense, upper-octave fuzz character with filtered frequency shaping and a noise gate to control the high-gain noise floor. It is handmade in Portland, Oregon, and suited to experimental, doom, and heavy psych applications.
The NUX Metal Core Deluxe is an analog high-gain distortion pedal built with a built-in noise gate, 2-band EQ, and NUX's Tone Lock feature, offering two selectable high-gain voicing modes for aggressive metal and hard rock tones. As the original version predating the MKII, it uses a straightforward analog gain circuit rather than the MKII's later DSP-based amp modeling and IR loading, positioned as a compact, affordable dedicated metal distortion pedal.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Experimental
- Alternative Rock
- Electronic
- Stoner Rock
- Rock
- Metal
- Hard Rock
- high gain
- transparent
- aggressive
- tight