EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas vs Electro Harmonix Triangle Big Muff (+ Boss DS-1) - Sound like Boris

[@WeAsACompany]

We're so excited about this video, we really can't wait for your comments. What do you think about the DS-1 into Hizumitas sound?

[@lorenzovicari1724]

Guys I'm from Italy, thanks for all your videos. They are really great, I've taken a ds 1 thanks to You, the ones ok the beta lead and on the Dr Robert are also great. Keep posting you're doing a great job. I've taken an hizumitas too, can't wait to see the video

[@WeAsACompany]

@@lorenzovicari1724 Thx very much Lorenzo, your comment means the world to us.

[@quainejohnson4808]

this sold me on not just the hizumitas but the Ds-1 as well haha

[@medulasa1]

The harmonics of the Hizumitas with the DS-1 in front of it are SO delicious

[@seangarland]

The Hizumitas sounded so much better in the Drop G# tuning. Full and thick, with some top end still present. Definitely going to buy this pedal for my 7-string and detuned guitars. Great demo (as always!).

[@ranchmanager9126]

I think the orange gloves really give it that "chewey" feeling. Way better than no gloves.

[@antipusrises]

Hizumitas: 🔥 Hizumitas boosted by a DS-1: 🔥🔥🔥

[@WeAsACompany]

So true.

[@jonniefast]

i use a wolf computer as a boost 😈

[@oursentenceisup]

DS-1 stacking confirmed in Board to Death video Earthquaker just put out. Good job!

[@WeAsACompany]

🤟

[@CC-fi3pp]

Which one? Wata?

[@epmmb]

This may be the first Big muff style pedal I've really liked as a fuzz, more than used as a distortion 🔥

[@tizmawilda]

Recent huge fan of your channel. I run a Rat and a Hizu in parallel with the EHX Switchblade pro. It kicks ass. I boost them currently with an SD-1, now seeing this video a few times had to grab a DS-1 and try it. I play in drop A so this rules hearing it in low low. Great work!

[@WeAsACompany]

Thx a lot! Let us know how you like ds1 into hizu.

[@jakespencer431]

Got the hizu is it good with the ds1?

[@tizmawilda]

@@jakespencer431 it is a lot of fun. Both the DS-1 and a modded TS9/SD-1 are awesome too

[@Lalairu]

Seems like the Hizumitas works very well with another pedals. I use Proco RAT with an overdrive and it turned out to be a wonderfull fuzz. I can get a different texture with the Hizumitas... Thanks for sharing!

[@annedeoedipus7849]

I have an octave fuzz into Hizumitas and it’s pretty nice too-to boost plus octave. One thing also, it’s super quiet as in no noise/buzz etc. (unless you are hitting the strings, in which case, it’s huge!). Well-made pedal.

[@wordofmouth7679]

The hizumitas is more consistent across the whole spectrum range of the knob sweeps. This is a killer pedal. when combined with the Ds-1, it’s a crushing sound. Love it

[@712Jefferson]

As someone loving their Hizumitas currently and looking for the ideal "secret sauce" type of pedal to stick in front of it to step on when I want to drive the Hizu even harder (currently using a JHS morning glory to do this), I very much appreciated this video!

[@calmccullen3539]

Very excellent video. Thank your for the work you put into it.

[@grandantenna]

Nice, heavy sounds! I stumbled upon some similar fun a while back by stacking a Keeley SEM DS-1 into a EHX Green Russian reissue, but not in lower tunings. Going to try that now…

[@TheEleventeen]

I saw this thumbnail, so I subscribed and now I’ll watch it.^^

[@briangrover873]

Now I really want to hear an EQD Plumes into the Hizumitas

[@ze8489d]

The EQD Plumes is quite noisy when paired with any fuzz. Love the Plumes but I use a TC mojo mojo to push fuzzes.

[@Pedal_Gong_Show]

Thats a nice Pedal. The look is amazing and with a Muff Style Pedal, you don‘t do anything wrong . Nice Video, Dude.

[@WeAsACompany]

Thx!

[@leonardopapa4005]

the hizumitas sounds much clearer to me, the triangle BMP sounds a bit "boxxy" in comparison if that makes any sense

[@bazzagee7792]

that orange glove really does it for me

[@codymcgrew94]

That’s weird. I’ve been doing this for a couple years now. Using the DS-1 as a boost pedal for solos. Sitting in front of a fuzz with the tone turned almost all the way down haha.

[@johnlattimer350]

Been doing the same with an OCD Ge custom into a Hoof.

[@Ritual_Gaze]

Ended up with a black russian muff to mod it for a friend and it really rounded out my stacked high gain fuzz tone with the extra bass and that smooth fuzz so i've been looking for something smaller that has those characteristic and it looks like I found it! Stacking it with the DS-1 helped me get a better idea. This is going probably going to sound even better than the black russian. Want it to sound like a mammoth coming through when I chug lower notes.

[@thomas.loyens]

Hizumitas sounds amazing 🤘

[@rabbitholeofmoxie]

I always enjoy the content on this channel, but every time it’s a DS-1 video I auto-click and rewatch multiple times. My dream video, if y’all still have that Sunn Beta Lead (one of my favorite video y’all have done), would be the Boss DS-1 into the Hizumitas into the Sunn Beta Lead with some of the amazing Grunge/Doom/Sludge/Desert Rock-Psychedelic/etc sort of riffs y’all do so well.

[@WeAsACompany]

That's a great idea for a video. Thx very much!

[@rabbitholeofmoxie]

@@WeAsACompany I don’t know if it’ll have broad appeal, but I’d very likely watch the video over a thousand times. :)

[@DrClocktopus1]

Been looking for something to convince me on the hizumitas. Most demos tuen way down but this shows its versatility for more shoegazy and post rock sounds

[@WeAsACompany]

Thx!

[@Hellbilly1969]

Great video. Didn't feel either one was better than the other, price tag, makes one feel the other better than the other but it's not the case, both great pedals. The DS1 still reigns supreme after all this time

[@BigMuff75]

DS1 before the Muff - yes! I often use the SD1 before the Muff Triangle, but the Hizumitas sounds imho the best on its own.

[@dangitdan9938]

I dunno, that DS-1 into the Big Muff sounded pretty magical to me. 🤷‍♂️ #toneissubjective

[@peteytwofinger]

tone is subjective ! truer words have not been spoken but how has this been ignored . the guitar comunity speaks in blanket statements and in absolutes . my ears , my gear my music my tone my taste are not yours , and thats ok . most importantly , one can just as soon spend your entire life on youtube watching gear demos , reading comment sections where people attempt to elevate themselves above the next guy because of something they bought . me i will make some music , i will write , i will play , i will record , and i could care less who is not listening . if a great song falls in a forest and no one hears it does that make it less of a great song ? that being said the internet and gear demos are great and i aprove . its the dick measuring contest aspect and flexing in the comment sections that make me ashamed to be associated with any of this stuff . dont get me started on the dress up stuff , i will just say you wont catch me looking like a pirate , i will not be acessorizing with jewely , scarves , american flags , tattoos and i will not be growing a rediculously huge beard wearing pilgrum hats ... hence i will not be heard . thats perfectly fine with me . i will not be djenting either . my guitars have six strings and they are tuned at 440 . talk about a fuddy duddie . thats me half way thru recording a dozen or so songs that i do every year starting on january 10th . who cares , no one but if i looked like i just strolled out of a coal mine circa 1890's covered in ink with quaker cap and a 25 year neck beard my chances would significantly skyrocket . "we" listen with our eyes . frank zappa was so right - tinsel town rebellion . nothing has changed since he wrote that except that its gotton a LOT worse .

[@tylerrosier1068]

My buddy just got one and it sounds great. Great shoegaze pedal too

[@lzryd]

Imma try my new EQD Hizumitas with a blues driver into my Orange Dark terror... I like the sustainer knob dimed and I prefer my single coils in my Telecaster over my guitar with EMG81/85. I can't wait to try it with Les Paul with Iommi pickups.

[@shealeffler6147]

I think most of the time Wata actually uses it the other way around, Elk/(now Hizu) into DS-1. at least that’s early Boris, stuff like Akuma no Uta. Her current pedalboard and sound palette suggests otherwise.

[@JulieWellinger]

Who knows what order they ran them with that loop switcher.

[@shealeffler6147]

@@JulieWellinger she didn't use one in the early early days. I looked at pedalboard pics and traced the wiring and checked the sounds against my own OR120. I've heard both orderings' sounds in their work, at least to my ears. ymmv ofc

[@noisefirproduction3336]

Triangle sounds more crunchy, Hizumtas sounds more scooped. Boosted with Ds 1, both sounds too flabby. I love Muffs (have one permanently on my board), but I guess it's the Orange / Matamp & Model T stacks played stupid loud that are the meat of Boris tone.

[@redsunstudiomixrec5017]

I got the ds1 as soon i got the hizumitas you need both for awesome fuzz doom sounds

[@crowbarmode]

Would never have thought to try the DS-1 before instead of a drive 🫨 what are the cool 9V adapter cables? Love that color

[@WeAsACompany]

Mooer

[@briangrover873]

To my ears, the Hizumitas can get way more fat & heavy than the EHX muff

[@druariel]

Liked video. Entertaining. But the difference was pretty apparent early on. The center of the mid scoop is in a different part of the spectrum, and is shallower for the EQD and the EHX’s bass response droops below E or D. Still, great detail in the comparisons! Keep it up. Did this channel do a ‘Rat-into-muff, or vice versa?’ video that I don’t see any more? Anyway that gets a similar result to this secret sauce (edit: I found the video)

[@ilovesoftwhispers]

Nicely done comparison. What’s up with the weird gloves?

[@diegosardi5690]

That riff tho 🤤🤤🤤🤤

[@michaeldoerksen2841]

I take my OS-2 dialed in halfway between the SD-1 and DS-1 settings. Use it as a "boost" with my EQD Tone Reaper and it Dooms so f***ing hard!

[@LethalBubbles]

important point to consider: cute purple jackalope bunnies

[@matimoksa]

please do with russian muff. still, awesome vid!

[@WeAsACompany]

We will!

[@fiveways]

There is another factor missing here that kinda gets overlooked. I wish I could find them but there used to be like 20 years ago on boris site pictures from around that time period and there was no triangle muff. It was a ds-1 and a v6 big muff. These photos were undated and there was next to nothing out there on boris in either Japanese or english. So this could be like just pre-heavy rock version 1. I also kinda think a combination of volume and the fac tone shaping on a vintage orange would get you even closer. That might be as close as you can get with just 2 pedals and not a period correct head with the same cab (with speakers worn in in exactly the same way). Anyway it is a shame a lot of the early info on boris is gone. Like the tour diary of their first UK tour where wata was using (and always seemed to be photographing) London city amps. The only thing I absolutely remember from those photos is she had an Ibanez echo machine (em5) on her board. I suspect she might have just borrow a pile of gear because of voltage differences with the space echoes and the costs of flying but God only knows.

[@fiveways]

The photos are from well before the earliest ones you will easily find online. The ones with the dyna comp and the Seymour Duncan boost. Those are from the pink tour 2006 with growing opening for them (a friend of mine took those photos year ago).

[@thebrokenorder]

DS-1 made the Hizu sound woofy

[@dwightgarcia9197]

This was also Frusciante’s method in RCHP ;) DS2>FZ3

[@off711]

Sick! So is the ds-1 being used as a treble booster? Very close race.

[@WeAsACompany]

Not sure, but the sound is close.

[@darklight4815]

I still haven't figured out the deal with the gloves yet 🤔🤫🤔

[@YummyMicroplastics]

I have a Marshall DSL and am planning to buy an EHX Rams Head. Could the DS1 help tame excess mids/sound good in general?

[@WeAsACompany]

It can help but we can't be sure, we never tried that combination.

[@tehlolercaust]

So from what i'm understanding I can get a triangle big muff and a ds1 for the price of just the hizumitas.

[@guilhermedosreisnascimento228]

Boris uses fuzz into orange amps, i've never heard a orange overdriving alone, people told that is a fuzzy drive, do anybody know the truth?

[@WeAsACompany]

It depends on which model.

[@ReeceLiamAllsop]

Only thing i can't workout is are these being run in series or parallel?

[@WeAsACompany]

Series

[@ReeceLiamAllsop]

@@WeAsACompany is that a setting in the switcher? Can you run stuff in parallel using the switcher aswell?

[@WeAsACompany]

@@ReeceLiamAllsop not with this switcher.

[@Farold_Haltermeyer]

Love the Triangles textures, so much more characterful than the Hizu which has a blandness to it, kinda the Does It Doom generic sound. But hey, I almost fell asleep at aBoris gig so what do I know! Great demo as usual, thanks

[@the_trash_mane5875]

How in God's name can you almost fall asleep at a Boris show considering how loud they are?

[@Farold_Haltermeyer]

@@the_trash_mane5875 it’s a curse...I get lost in the walls of sound but if they’re not really very exciting I just find it relaxing. I drooled at a Tool gig.

[@C0nnie]

what kind of cables are those ?

[@WeAsACompany]

EBS PCF-DL bit.ly/3Fpaf9O

[@CC-fi3pp]

DS-1 all day!

[@olivierblanc9455]

Really cool but what amp is used ?

[@WeAsACompany]

Orange Rockerverb 100 MKII, clean channel.

[@NathanHorton-wg7yb]

I'm pretty sure I blew out my Hizumitas using 18v accidentally

[@frankrizzo2724]

Thanks. I'm putting shag carpet on my pedal board....

[@thesaj1110]

Clearly the electro harmonic sounds way better with better headroom.

[@danielcarter3928]

triangle is better in my opinon

[@SolaFideSolusChristus]

what’s with the gloves lmao