Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra Blackout vs Xotic EP-Pro
The Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra Blackout and the Xotic EP-Pro are both pedals sharing bright. The Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra Blackout leans full and high gain. The Xotic EP-Pro leans transparent. Current prices: $145 vs $295.
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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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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- bright
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$145via Reverb
$295via 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 Xotic EP-PRO is a preamp and boost pedal built around the preamp section of the Echoplex EP-3 tape delay, long used on its own as a tone sweetener. It adds warmth, a thicker midrange and a subtle treble lift, giving a fuller, more three-dimensional signal even at unity gain, and can drive a valve amp harder as the boost is raised. The PRO version extends the original EP Booster with additional controls for shaping the amount and voicing of the boost. It is most often used as an always-on pedal at the front or end of a chain.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Hard Rock
- Doom Metal
- blues
- full
- high gain
- crunchy
- transparent