The EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas is an EarthQuaker Devices fuzz pedal. Close alternatives include the JAM Pedals Red Muck and the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi. It pairs well with the Magnatone Super Fifteen 15W 1x12 Combo and the Laney DBC410 Digbeth 4x10 Cabinet.
EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas
EarthQuaker Devices · pedal
The EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas is a Big Muff style fuzz sustainer created with Boris guitarist Wata, recreating the sound of her favorite vintage fuzz, the Japanese Elk BM Sustainar, after EQD studied her actual pedal. It delivers heavy saturation with a gritty edge and a massive bottom end, yet keeps enough mids and top end to stay clear and dynamic and cut through sludge, with tons of sustain ranging from smooth distortion textures to ripped speaker fuzz. Its three-knob layout is familiar to Big Muff users but behaves unusually, with a hot output reaching unity around nine o'clock and a sustain knob that starts hot with no clean tones, and a reversed-feeling tone control that is brightest fully counterclockwise. Built for noisy, slow, and low sounds, it suits doom, sludge, stoner rock, and heavy psychedelic players chasing thick, sustaining fuzz with clarity.
- fuzz
- big muff
- gritty
- clarity
- saturation
- sludge
- sustain
- thick
Genres the EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas is commonly used in
- Metal
- Stoner Rock
- Noise Rock
- Grunge
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Inferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag. - Doom Metal
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Inferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag. - Punk
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Inferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.
Amps that pair well with the EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas
Magnatone Super Fifteen 15W 1x12 Combo
Magnatone
25% matchThe Super Fifteen's bold, punchy pitch-vibrato gives the Hizumitas' gritty, Muff-voiced fuzz a genuinely strange amp platform to push into.
Laney DBC410 Digbeth 4x10 Cabinet
Laney
24% matchLaney DBC410 Digbeth 4x10 Cabinet pushes a high gain tone toward tight
Gallien-Krueger MB210MK2
Gallien Krueger
20% matchThe transparent tone has headroom to spare — EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas gives it high gain to fill it with
Roland DB-500 D-Bass Combo
Roland
20% matchEarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas's high gain fills in what this high headroom tone doesn't make on its own
Peavey MAX 250 250W 1x15 Bass Combo
Peavey
19% matchThe transparent tone has headroom to spare — EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas gives it high gain to fill it with
ENGL E650 Ritchie Blackmore Signature
Engl
19% matchRun EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas into that transparent platform and it finally gets some high gain
AER Compact XL
amplifier
19% matchThe Hizumitas' gritty, Muff-style fuzz gives the Compact XL's transparent, clear voice something much thicker to push.
Blackstar Series One 100 MkII
Blackstar
19% matchThe transparent tone has headroom to spare — EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas gives it high gain to fill it with
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Pedals that stack with the EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas
Fulltone OCD
Fulltone
36% matchThe Hizumitas' gritty, Muff-voiced fuzz stacks with the OCD's own firm, thick British drive.
TC Electronic SCF Gold SE Stereo
TC Electronic
31% matchRun the Hizumitas' thick, massive fuzz after the SCF Gold's bright stereo chorus so the saturation picks up that shimmer instead of masking it.
Keeley Red Dirt Overdrive
Keeley
29% matchStack the Hizumitas' massive, sludgy fuzz after the Red Dirt's thick, syrupy drive for a heavier wall of gain without losing that midrange clarity.
EarthQuaker Devices Arrows
EarthQuaker Devices
27% matchStack the Hizumitas' gritty, Muff-voiced fuzz with the Arrows' own subtle treble boost for two distinct low-gain textures.
Ampeg Classic Analog Bass Preamp pedal
Ampeg
27% matchThe Hizumitas' gritty, Big-Muff-style fuzz gives the Classic Analog Bass Preamp's mid-forward EQ somewhere heavier to land.
DigiTech Drop
Digitech
27% matchInto a transparent tone, EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas brings the high gain it's missing
MXR Timmy Overdrive
MXR
27% matchEarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas's high gain fills in what this transparent tone doesn't make on its own
Electro-Harmonix ERD
Electro-Harmonix
26% matchThe transparent tone has headroom to spare — EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas gives it high gain to fill it with
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Alternativessee all similar tone character →
JAM Pedals Red Muck
Jam Pedals
75% similarityShared character: sustain, tone_control, big_muff
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi
Electro-Harmonix
74% similarityShared character: sustain, big_muff, voicing
Electro-Harmonix Green Russian Big Muff
Electro-Harmonix
73% similarityShared character: sustain, big_muff, smooth
SONICAKE Fazy Cream
Sonicake
72% similarityShared character: sustain, tone_control, big_muff
EarthQuaker Devices Hoof Hybrid Fuzz
EarthQuaker Devices
72% similarityShared character: sustain, big_muff, smooth
Mojo Hand FX Colossus Fuzz
Mojo Hand Fx
72% similarityShared character: sustain, big_muff, fuzz
Death By Audio Fuzz War
Death By Audio
72% similarityShared character: sustain, big_muff, high_end
Fairfield Circuitry 900 Fuzz
Fairfield Circuitry
70% similarityShared character: big_muff, noise, smooth
EarthQuaker Devices Hoof Fuzz V2
EarthQuaker Devices
70% similarity“is the second version of the Akron, Ohio boutique builder's massive silicon fuzz pedal, designed in collaboration with Wata from Boris”
Keeley Moon
Keeley
70% similarityShared character: big_muff, filter, fuzz
Pigtronix Gas Giant
Pigtronix
69% similarityShared character: fuzz, thickness, sustain
Pigtronix Star Eater
Pigtronix
69% similarityShared character: aggressive_playing, fuzz, sustain
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Questions people ask
What are good alternatives to the EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas?+
The closest matches in character are the JAM Pedals Red Muck, the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi, the Electro-Harmonix Green Russian Big Muff.
What pairs well with the EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas?+
Strong matches from rig and tone-complementarity evidence: Magnatone Super Fifteen 15W 1x12 Combo, Laney DBC410 Digbeth 4x10 Cabinet, Gallien-Krueger MB210MK2 — The Super Fifteen's bold, punchy pitch-vibrato gives the Hizumitas' gritty, Muff-voiced fuzz a genuinely strange amp platform to push into..