MXR Q Zone Fixed Wah vs Electro-Harmonix Cock Fight Plus
The MXR Q Zone Fixed Wah and the Electro-Harmonix Cock Fight Plus are both pedals. The Electro-Harmonix Cock Fight Plus leans fuzzy and dynamic.
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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.43% — somewhat different
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$132.30via Reverb
The MXR Q Zone is a fixed wah and tone control pedal from MXR (Dunlop), delivering a fixed wah frequency peak for adding a vowel-like filtered tone to guitar without expression pedal movement. Controls include Frequency and Q for setting the peak frequency and bandwidth, creating a fixed wah character for specific tonal applications.
The Electro-Harmonix Cock Fight Plus is a cocked talking wah and fuzz pedal that builds on the original Cock Fight with a rugged, lightweight design and a traditional rack-and-pinion treadle mechanism. It contains two expressive filters: a traditional wah filter and a formant filter for vowel-like talking effects, plus a lively fuzz section that can be placed before or after the filter or removed entirely. As a wah it is smooth and even with a sweet quack reminiscent of a classic Cry Baby, cleaner in the treble than many budget rivals, and adding fuzz exaggerates the effect with more bottom end and saturated gain. Routing the fuzz after the filter gives classic rock tones, while placing it before yields synth-like textures. It suits rock and experimental players wanting wah, talking filter, and fuzz in one unit.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- funk
- Classic Rock
- Experimental
- Rock
- fuzzy
- dynamic