Catalinbread Naga-Viper vs Hornby Skewes Treble Booster
The Catalinbread Naga-Viper and the Hornby Skewes Treble Booster are both pedals sharing bright. The Catalinbread Naga-Viper leans sustaining and harmonically rich.
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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.33% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Rock
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- bright
Hornby Skewes Treble Booster
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$179.99via 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.
Hornby Skewes Treble Booster is a hand-selected OC75 transistor treble boost with variable frequency selector across 11 distinct steps, hardwire true bypass, and 9V battery power. The linear gain circuit and modified tone setup provide rich, dynamic boost ideal for pairing with already-distorted amps.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Blues Rock
- Classic Rock
- Blues
- sustaining
- harmonically rich
- transparent
- saturated