Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra 10 Red vs Catalinbread Skewer
The Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra 10 Red and the Catalinbread Skewer are both pedals sharing bright, harmonically rich. The Catalinbread Skewer leans saturated and transparent.
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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.32% — 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
- harmonically rich
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$145via Reverb
The Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra is an overdrive pedal from Portland, Oregon, designed to replicate the specific guitar tone of Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath -- the combination of a Dallas Rangemaster treble booster driving a 1965 Marshall 1959 Super Lead amplifier that produced the original heavy metal guitar sound. The Sabbra Cadabra combines the treble boost function with the Marshall Superlead overdrive in a single unit, delivering the dark, massive, harmonically complex tone that defined the earliest heavy metal recordings. Made in Portland by Catalinbread.
The Catalinbread Skewer is a treble booster and clean boost from Portland, Oregon, providing precise upper-frequency emphasis and harmonic presence for pushing tube amplifiers into natural saturation with the classic treble booster approach. Designed in the tradition of vintage treble boosters but with modern consistency and reliability, the Skewer adds brightness, harmonic content, and singing lead character ahead of a tube amp. Associated with the vintage British rock tradition of driving British valve amplifiers with a treble boost. Made in Portland by Catalinbread.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Metal
- Blues Rock
- saturated
- transparent
- sustaining