Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra Blackout vs Catalinbread Super Chili Picoso
The Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra Blackout and the Catalinbread Super Chili Picoso are both pedals sharing bright, high gain, sustaining. The Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra Blackout leans full and crunchy. The Catalinbread Super Chili Picoso leans saturated and transparent. Current prices: $145 vs $139.99.
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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.44% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- bright
- high gain
- sustaining
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$145via Reverb
$139.99via Reverb
The Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra Blackout is a limited all-black edition of the Portland boutique builder's Tony Iommi-inspired gain pedal, combining a custom-tuned Dallas Rangemaster treble booster with the preamp section of a Laney Supergroup amplifier. The circuit is designed to reproduce the early Black Sabbath tone created when Iommi ran a treble booster into cranked Laney amplifiers. The Range control adjusts from focused treble boost to full-range boost, accommodating standard tuning and drop tunings. The Blackout edition shares the identical circuit with the standard Sabbra Cadabra, differing only in its all-black cosmetic finish.
The Catalinbread Super Chili Picoso is a warm, musical MOSFET-based clean boost pedal from the Portland boutique builder, based on the Jack Orman MOSFET Boost circuit. It provides up to 35dB of clean boost with a tilt-style EQ for bass and treble sculpting and a Spicy/Mild switch for additional gain color. The Super Chili Picoso adds instant harmonic girth to a clean signal, stacks effectively with other drive pedals, or drives a tube amp into natural breakup. Suited for players seeking a warm, transparent-to-slightly-colored boost for solo volume, amp pushing, or overdrive stacking.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Hard Rock
- Doom Metal
- Rock
- Blues Rock
- full
- crunchy
- saturated
- transparent
- harmonically rich
- aggressive