Mad Professor Stone Grey Distortion vs Suhr Shiba Mini Overdrive

The Mad Professor Stone Grey Distortion and the Suhr Shiba Mini Overdrive are both pedals sharing bright, tight. The Mad Professor Stone Grey Distortion leans high gain and transparent.

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.

36% — somewhat different

Shared tone character
citedDerived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.
  • bright
  • tight
Citation fame
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Price

$119.99via Reverb

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Description

The Mad Professor Stone Grey Distortion is a high-gain distortion pedal with Volume, Distortion, and Tone controls, the Tone acting as a boost/cut shelving EQ similar to a bright switch. It is built to retain note clarity and a tight low end even at extreme gain, staying usable on extended-range guitars such as seven, eight, and nine strings without turning to mud. Lower Distortion settings behave more like an overdrive, while higher settings deliver a fierce, high-gain attack, making it a distortion pedal that can also function as an overdrive rather than only excelling at one end of the gain range. It is designed to add drive on top of an amp's own voicing rather than overriding it.

The Suhr Shiba Drive Reloaded Mini packs the exact same upgraded Reloaded circuit, and its associated tone, found in the full-size Shiba Drive Reloaded pedal into a compact, pedalboard-friendly enclosure. It offers Drive, Tone, and Level controls plus a two-position Smooth switch for hi-cut tonal shaping, true bypass switching, and operation from 9-18VDC power supplies. Suhr confirms the Mini's circuit is identical to the full-size Reloaded, so the format change is purely about size, not tone.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
  • Metal
  • Hard Rock
  • Blues
  • Country
Tonal lean
  • high gain
  • transparent
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