Used Catalinbread Katzenkonig Overdrive Distortion Guitar Effects Pedal

Mint, all original packaging, as new

Katzenkönig. The Cat King.

Catalinbread combined the best elements of a Tone Bender MkII fuzz with a Rat distortion to create something that sings like a fuzz but is tight like a distortion. It loves humbuckers and single coils. It loves your cranked amp and your super-clean amp.

Katzenkönig was tuned to offer a huge range of response - from a really beautiful singing tone, to tight, harmonically-rich crunch, all the way to fuzz mayhem.

A simple, four-knob control scheme allows you to dial in your sound quickly and without much fuss:

• INPUT - Controls the input sensitivity. Turn it down when using higher output pickups and humbuckers. Turn it up for lower output pickups or when you want to go over-the-top.
• GAIN - Controls the gain of the second gain stage by controlling the amount of negative feedback in that stage, giving a wide ranging gain control that sounds great throughout its entire rotation.
• FILTER - Allows you to dial in your final tone from smooth and creamy all the way to bright and cutting. If you are familiar with the Filter control on a Rat, this is an even better version of that idea.
• VOLUME - Standard volume control. Katzenkönig sounds great turned down quiet or cranked up and loud.

At lower Gain and Input settings, Katzenkönig’s response is tight, like a great distortion pedal. You can play chugging, palm-muted riffs that you wouldn’t be able to get away with on a standard fuzz pedal. But turn up the Gain and Input, and you can get those epic harmonic blooms that you normally associate with a great fuzz pedal.