Catalinbread Karma Suture Silicon Overdive Fuzz Pedal

Catalinbread Karma Suture Silicon Overdive Fuzz Pedal

The Catalinbread Karma Suture line was inspired by the rare Harmonic Percolator. Not just a clone, it has expanded the potential by adding the exclusive Density and Diodes controls coupled with months of fine-tuning to get everything just right. You’ll find great sounds through the rotation of all the controls. No matter how you have the pedal set, the tone and response is always alive, sensitive to your every playing nuance.

Ups The Gain, Output, and Brightness

Silicon Karma Suture ups the gain, output, and brightness with two silicon transistors, still in PNP/NPN configuration, along with a pair of silicon diodes, configured for asymmetrical clipping.

Harmonic Distortion Laden

Whether you’re using the Karma Suture as your standalone dirt box into your amp or you’re using it to boost, overdrive, and enhance your existing dirt pedals, you’ll be greeted with harmonic distortion laden with even-order harmonics – sweet and musical, even with complex chord voicings. Both models provide you with amazing even-order harmonic distortion with distinct personalities. If you’re familiar with the difference between a germanium and silicon fuzz face, then those qualities apply to the Karma Suture as well – germanium gives you a thick, sweet response with a softer picking attack. Silicon provides a more immediate picking attack with a more aggressive tone.

Four Control Layouts

Karma Suture’s four control layout allows you to dial in a huge range of harmonically rich tones that sound great into clean amps and as well as overdriven amps. Or into a foundation overdrive, such as the Dirty Little Secret. It can work equally well with vintage single coils and hot humbuckers.

Diodes

The Diodes control allows you to set the threshold of the diode clipping circuit - from full clipping to get the most distortion and compression all the way to no diode clipping for a wide-open (and Loud!) sound.

Density

The Density control goes from a thick fuzz tone that can sound like an amp ready to explode all the way to a tight harmonically rich overdrive that screams 'rock and roll!'. This control is the key to dialing in the Karma Suture with any rig, allowing you to fine-tune to find the exact sweet spot. 

Fuzz Mode

This is the maximum setting and gives the thickest and fuzziest sound. Depending on the guitar and amp, it can sound like an overloaded amp ready to meltdown. But, a quick rollback of your guitar’s volume knob and you’ll get great clean up, from a tight overdrive down to a harmonically enhanced clean tone.