Electro-Harmonix Cock Fight Plus vs Xotic Robotalk 1 New Old Stock
The Electro-Harmonix Cock Fight Plus and the Xotic Robotalk 1 New Old Stock are both pedals sharing dynamic, glassy, smooth. The Electro-Harmonix Cock Fight Plus leans fuzzy. The Xotic Robotalk 1 New Old Stock leans mid-forward. Current prices: $132.30 vs $440.21.
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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.48% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Experimental
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- dynamic
- glassy
- smooth
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$132.30via Reverb
$440.21via Reverb
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.
The Xotic Robotalk 1 is an analog envelope filter pedal that also features a built-in random arpeggiator, delivering classic auto-wah funk sounds plus unpredictable, sequenced filter sweeps. Its envelope filter responds to pick dynamics for vocal, quacky auto-wah tones suited to funk and fusion, while the random mode generates evolving, robotic, arpeggiated filter patterns for experimental textures. Internal dip-switches and controls tune the envelope frequency and response for versatility, and the all-analog circuit gives a smooth, musical filter voice. Hand-assembled in Xotic's California tradition, it is a characterful, expressive filter. It suits funk, fusion, and experimental players wanting both responsive envelope-filter auto-wah and creative random arpeggiated filter effects in one analog pedal, offering everything from classic quack to wild, synth-like robotic sweeps.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Classic Rock
- Rock
- Funk
- fuzzy
- mid-forward