The EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas is an EarthQuaker Devices fuzz pedal. Close alternatives include the Electro-Harmonix Green Russian Big Muff and the SONICAKE Fazy Cream. It pairs well with the Engl Tube 50 Combo E768 and the Egnater Tweaker 88 Head.

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.

What stands out

  • “The community views the Hizumitas as a thick, sustaining Big Muff style fuzz tuned to Wata of Boris and her vintage Elk Sustainar, prized for heavy, gritty saturation with a massive low end that still keeps enough mids and top to cut throug…”

    — from the community notes

  • “The standout strengths are its girth, sustain, and surprising clarity for something so heavy”

    — from the community notes

  • “It is a go-to for doom, sludge, stoner, and heavy psych, delivering everything from smooth distortion to ripped speaker fuzz with huge sustain”

    — from the community notes

  • “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 fuz…”

    — from the listing

  • “with a hot output reaching unity around nine o”

    — from the listing

Trade-offs

  • “It offers enormous sustain and ranges from smooth distortion to torn speaker fuzz, with controls that behave unusually, a hot output, a no-clean sustain knob, and a tone control brightest fully counterclockwise that doubles as a decay filte…”

    — from the reviews

  • fuzz
  • big muff
  • gritty
  • clarity
  • distortion
  • smooth
  • massive
  • saturation

Genres the EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas is commonly used in

  • Metal
  • Stoner Rock
  • Noise Rock
  • Grunge
    citedInferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.
  • Doom Metal
    citedInferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.
  • Punk
    citedInferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.

Amps that pair well with the EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas

Engl Tube 50 Combo E768

Engl

25% match
$1615.51via Reverb

Into a high headroom tone, EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas brings a pull toward high gain that's missing

Comes later in the signal chain

Egnater Tweaker 88 Head

Egnater

24% match

Run EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas into that high headroom platform and it finally leans toward high gain

Comes later in the signal chain

Laney DBC410 Digbeth 4x10 Cabinet

Laney

24% match

pushes an already-dirty tonePushes an already-dirty tone harder and tightens it up. (high gain → tight)

Laney DBC410 Digbeth 4x10 Cabinet pushes a high gain tone toward tight

Comes later in the signal chain

Victory Amplifiers V30 The Countess

Victory

24% match

Run EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas into that transparent platform and it finally leans toward high gain

Comes later in the signal chain

Mesa/Boogie Badlander

Mesa Boogie

24% match

pushes an already-dirty tonePushes an already-dirty tone harder and tightens it up. (high gain → tight)

Feed a high gain signal into Mesa/Boogie Badlander and it comes out closer to tight

Comes later in the signal chain

Sunn Beta Lead

Sunn

23% match

EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas leans this high headroom tone toward high gain, which it doesn't make on its own

Comes later in the signal chain

AER Compact XL

amplifier

22% match
$2499via Reverb

The Hizumitas' gritty, Muff-style fuzz gives the Compact XL's transparent, clear voice something much thicker to push.

Comes later in the signal chain

Roland DB-500 D-Bass Combo

Roland

20% match
$1275.40via Reverb

EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas leans this high headroom tone toward high gain, which it doesn't make on its own

Comes later in the signal chain

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Pedals that stack with the EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas

EarthQuaker Devices '- Speaker Cranker

EarthQuaker Devices

31% match
$109via Reverb

EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas leans this transparent tone toward high gain, which it doesn't make on its own

Comes earlier in the signal chain

JHS Pedals JHS Muffuletta

JHS Pedals

28% match
$229via Reverb

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (scooped → mid-forward)

JHS Pedals JHS Muffuletta's fuzzy character and EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas's fuzzy voice sit in the same lane rather than fighting each other

Boss ODB-3

Boss

27% match
$118.07via Reverb

gain stackingStacks two gain stages for more saturation than either produces alone. (low gain → high gain)

Into a low gain tone, EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas brings a pull toward high gain that's missing

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Walrus Audio EB-10 Black Edition

Walrus Audio

27% match
$199.99via Reverb

pushes an already-dirty tonePushes an already-dirty tone harder and tightens it up. (high gain → clean boost)

Walrus Audio EB-10 Black Edition takes that high gain character and pushes it toward clean boost

Comes earlier in the signal chain

MXR Micro Amp

MXR

26% match
$76.40via Reverb

pushes an already-dirty tonePushes an already-dirty tone harder and tightens it up. (high gain → clean boost)

Stack MXR Micro Amp on top and a high gain tone tightens toward clean boost

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Boss HM-2W Heavy Metal Waza

Boss

25% match
$149.16via Reverb

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (scooped → mid-forward)

EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas takes that scooped character and pushes it toward mid-forward

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Mythos Mjolnir

Mythos

25% match

EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas leans this transparent tone toward high gain, which it doesn't make on its own

Comes earlier in the signal chain

MXR M169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay

MXR

24% match
$140via Reverb

EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas's own fuzzy character is the real reason this is worth trying — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Comes later in the signal chain

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Electro-Harmonix

67% similarity
$76.06via Reverb

Shared character: sustain, big muff, thickness

SONICAKE Fazy Cream

Sonicake

66% similarity
$39.98via Reverb

Shared character: tone control, big muff, high end

Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi

Electro-Harmonix

60% similarity
$74.89via Reverb

Shared character: sustain, big muff, voicing

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JHS Pedals JHS Muffuletta

JHS Pedals

57% similarity
$229via Reverb

Shared character: sustain, big muff, thickness

EarthQuaker Devices Barrows V1

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Shared character: bottom end, thickness, fuzz

DOD Chthonic Fuzz

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EarthQuaker Devices Gary V1 Fuzz

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Wampler Leviathan Fuzz

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Questions people ask

What are good alternatives to the EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas?+

The closest matches in character are the Electro-Harmonix Green Russian Big Muff, the SONICAKE Fazy Cream, the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi.

What pairs well with the EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas?+

Strong matches from rig and tone-complementarity evidence: Engl Tube 50 Combo E768, Egnater Tweaker 88 Head, Laney DBC410 Digbeth 4x10 Cabinet — Into a high headroom tone, EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas brings a pull toward high gain that's missing.

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