Tru-Fi Floyd Fuzz vs Wren and Cuff De La Riva BM20-Ultra Fuzz

The Tru-Fi Floyd Fuzz and the Wren and Cuff De La Riva BM20-Ultra Fuzz are both pedals. The Tru-Fi Floyd Fuzz leans sustaining and smooth. Current prices: $199.95 vs $295.

Similarity
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45% somewhat different

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Price

$199.95via Reverb

$295via Reverb

Description

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.

The Wren and Cuff De La Riva BM20-Ultra Fuzz is a highly configurable Big Muff-style fuzz built around 20 internal DIP switches, each offering two settings across nearly every stage of the circuit, plus three external toggles including a silicon/germanium transistor switch. Wren and Cuff states the DIP switches alone yield over a million possible configurations, growing to roughly 8 million with the toggles included. Without touching any switches it delivers familiar, low-noise Muff tones with strong presence. It is built for players who want to explore the full design space of the Big Muff circuit topology rather than a single fixed voicing.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
  • Classic Rock
  • stoner rock
  • grunge
Tonal lean
  • sustaining
  • smooth
  • full

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