• Catalinbread Katzenkönig Distortion

Catalinbread Katzenkönig Distortion

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Item #13713

Katzenkönig: The Cat King! Combining the best elements of a Tone Bender MkII fuzz with a Rat distortion, Catalinbread has created 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 or to dial in your wah sound (more on that later). Turn it up for lower output pickups or for when you want to go over-the-top!

Gain - Controls the gain of the second gain stage. It is not a conventional gain control, rather, it controls the amount of negative feedback in that stage. What does that mean for you? It means you get a wide ranging gain control that sounds great throughout it’s entire rotation!

Filter - Allows you to dial in your final tone from smooth and creamy all the way to bright and cutting. You can quickly find the sweet spot for your rig with this control. If you are familiar with the Filter control on a Rat then what you’ll find is that this is an even better version of that idea!

Volume - Standard volume control. You’ll find that Katzenkönig sounds great turned down quiet or cranked up and loud!

Centaur Guitar is an authorized Catalinbread dealer!

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