Catalinbread Naga-Viper vs Eventide Micropitch
The Catalinbread Naga-Viper and the Eventide Micropitch are both pedals. The Catalinbread Naga-Viper leans sustaining and harmonically rich. The Eventide Micropitch leans lush. Current prices: $179.99 vs $231.48.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.37% — somewhat different
Eventide Micropitch
Eventide · pedal
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$179.99via Reverb
$231.48via Reverb
The Catalinbread Naga Viper is a Dallas Rangemaster-inspired treble booster from Portland, Oregon, designed to add brightness, harmonic presence, and singing upper-register character to the guitar signal when driving vintage British tube amplifiers. The Naga Viper provides the treble emphasis and harmonic content that makes humbucking pickups sing and cut through a driven tube amp with the character associated with 1960s British lead guitar tones. Associated with the tonal tradition of Eric Clapton, Tony Iommi, and early British rock guitar. Made in Portland by Catalinbread.
The Eventide MicroPitch is a micro-pitch shift and stereo thickener pedal from Eventide, delivering subtle pitch detuning in stereo for lush vocal-doubling-style guitar thickening and spatial enhancement. Controls include Pitch Left/Right (cents detune), Pre-delay, Low/High EQ, and Mix. The MicroPitch creates the thick, doubled guitar character from subtle 5-25 cents stereo detuning used in studio recording to thicken guitar and vocal tracks.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Blues Rock
- Rock
- Classic Rock
- ambient
- post rock
- experimental
- sustaining
- harmonically rich
- transparent
- saturated
- lush