Modern controls for vintage-style tone
The Blood Donor’s topside knobs (named Please, Give, Your, and Blood) are easy to manipulate to achieve the sounds you want. At the front of the circuit is the Input sensitivity control (Blood) — think of it as a preamp gain control, limiting as you choose the amplitude of your guitar signal hitting the fuzz section. Gain control (Give) lets you push your tone more toward distortion or fuzz, depending on where you set the knob. Built with companderless circuitry, the volume control (Your) can be set low for late-night practice or cranked up for performance. And the filter control (Please) at the end of the circuit puts the finishing touches on your Blood Donor’s tone — clockwise for warm and wooly and counterclockwise for enhanced brightness.
Gear that makes you want to play
The self-avowed gearheads at Catalinbread focus on making musical devices that they want to use themselves — “gear that gets us excited and inspires us to play.” The result of that authentic focus and unwavering integrity is the type of innovation that isn’t market-driven; Catalinbread creates its own market for products players love, whether overdrive, delay/reverb, fuzz/distortion, or tremolo/modulation pedals. The Blood Donor fuzz pedal is an excellent example of Catalinbread’s exciting, inspiring innovation.
Catalinbread Blood Donor Fuzz Pedal Features:
- Wide-ranging pedal provides tones from smooth and creamy to wailing, snarling fuzz
- Combination of a Tone Bender MkII fuzz and a Rat distortion pedal
- Works well with high-output humbuckers
- Filter (Please), gain (Give), volume (Your), and input (Blood) controls for dialing in just the right sound
- Carefully selected transistor set pushes the limits of saturation
- Low noise floor for quiet operation
- All-metal chassis and high-quality footswitch for long-lasting performance
- Can be powered by a 9-volt battery or 9–18-volt external power supply (sold separately)
- Made in the USA
