Catalinbread Karma Suture Germanium Harmonic Fuzz Guitar Effects Pedal

I use a pedalboard with a voodoo lab power supply.This pedal just stopped working. The led lit but the output was negligible.It did initially sound good but when a pedal can disrupt a show I can't trust it.The pedal has a three year warranty but Amazon seems unable to give me the information that Catalinbread requires.I have edited this review after receiving an email from Catalinbread.The customer service is such that I am happy. The pedal when repaired will go back on my pedalboard.

It's not your average fuzz pedal. So, watch the ample amount of videos on YouTube.I will agree that expression pedal capability would have solidified this as a classic, but it's only limit is your imagination.I'm into really spacey stuff. So, this pedal works for me. If you're just looking for a plain old fuzz, Catalinbread and Earthquaker Divices makes other fuzz pedals.Minus sound quality, the small footprint and sturdy housing are nice bonuses.

Great pedal in deed. It took me a couple of days tweaking knobs and moving it around the pedalboard chain to get an idea of how knobs interact and what sounds you can get out of it. No manual included or something like that in the official page that helps to understand what knobs do, so you will spend a while playing because controls are highly interactive. In terms of fuzz, for me is not so extreme as I expected but the character is pleasant, with chords you get the clarity that everyone is talking about. In my usual live gig set up I found extremely useful to put the Suture before a fuzz (blackout effectors twosome) the Karma Suture delivering a clean / breaking / boost into the the fuzz, and the guitar just shine like never before, the fuzz becomes snappy, open, with nice transients, rich chords and sparkling sustain. The clean / breaking overdrive is great for rhythmic clean (fast) guitar as it gives some clean chords and an open sound. I totally recommend this pedal but it really comes to life when stacked. For now the OCD and SHO that usually were taking turns first in the chain to boost and model the clean are out for the Suture rich harmonic content instead.

Wow, what is this thing? Lots of sounds in it. I'm a fan.Well made, overall.Unfortunately, the nature of this circuit topology is that you may find yourself jamming along to your local AM radio stations. But that's the nature of mutant fuzzes, especially the good ones.If someone said I could only use one dirt box for the rest of my life, this one might be it.

I wanted a box to make things noisy and ugly in ways I don't already have ( I have two ring modulators, so I'm already off to the races). That's what I got here ! First off, the sounds that come out of this thing a pretty wild and ugly. That's good! It's built solid - quality went into it's manufacture. The lettering is hard to read, but you get the idea after a few minutes of playing with it. You get four knobs -1) bottom left - the volume/fuzz. great sounding fuzz, but you have no tone control for it and there's no way of turning the fuzz off. You got fuzz.2) top left - where the crazy lives. when it's off, you can use the pedal as a fuzz or a tremelo fuzz. Turn is slowly clockwise and it gives you crazy - like circuit bent toy crazy. Depending on the setting of your guitar's volume knob, it can turn into dolphins, crazy nuclear reactor meltdown or that lovely sound of when someone unplugs their cable and leaves the Marshal stack on.3) top right - the tremelo speed control4) bottom right - technically, the tremelo depth control - however all the controls play off each other, varying the tremelo depth and speed randomly.The thing makes crazy noises. If you go to youtube, a bunch of people have video demos to listen to. The sounds you hear are the sounds you get from this - nothing else. I was hoping to find vistas of ugg that the videos left undiscovered, but nay. Great sounds, but in actuality, you'll have about 5 or 6 distinct sounds, that with tiny twists of the knobs will change their pitches somewhat - or send you into one of the other sounds.The box would have been WAY more useful if it had a mix control, to blend the source signal and the effect together, like most boxes offer. I LOVE the sounds in this thing, but it is so, so limited. I spent two hours getting 10 seconds of a tortured guitar solo out of it - wildly cool when the effects take over as the guitar dies out, but it's a rich chocolate cake - the ear wearies quickly.Also, I know the idea is to use the guitar knobs like a joystick, but adding an input for an expression pedal to use with the crazy knob would have been a great addition.So in summary, it's a pricey one-trick pony. I'll keep it, since I love proving to myself that I was wrong in judging something too quickly. At $170, it's not the most versatile of pedals. Sorry - I really wanna love this thing, but... it will be on the shelf . Catalinbread, if you read this, ADD A MIX CONTROL !!!! and then swap this one out for me please!