No-compromise fuzz, featuring clean boost, overdrive, and distortion.

The Fulltone CT-1 Catalyst Guitar Pedal is equipped with a simple circuit that uses only discrete FET's to achieve its throaty roar. But the Catalyst stompbox brings something more to the table because it to does things that many other fuzz pedals can't.

With its mini-toggle switch set to "Spark," the Catalyst effect pedal offers clean boosts, sweeter overdrives and all sorts of distortion sounds. Want more? Flip the switch to "Flame" and you'll be treated to a host of less civil overdrives, unique distortion voicings, and a plethora of vicious Fuzz sounds, all of which clean up with a twist of your guitar's volume knob, with a linear transition from clean to mean.

To further enhance your tonal control, the Catalyst guitar pedal offers a pair of very effective low-loss tone controls that set it apart from the masses. Standard tone stacks often end up cutting so much gain that the effect designer has to make up for this loss later in the circuit, and many times you loose some of the magic in the process. Not so here because the Fulltone CT-1 Catalyst pedal's low-loss Bass/Mids knob dials out the flubby low-end, with the added bonus of supplying varying amounts of rich midrange when the Bass/Mids knob passes the 3 o'clock mark.

This midrange, on top of an already wildly distorted tone, has the effect of increasing sustain to insane proportions as well as breaking you out of the standard super bright/super bassy Fuzz mold. Need to smooth out the highs? Simply turn down the Treble mini-knob—a low-loss hi-end roll-off—allowing you to shave off as much of the treble as necessary.

Finally, many Fuzz pedals can have wacky input and output impedances, making it difficult to match-up successfully with wah-wah pedals and non-true-bypass buffered pedals. The Fulltone CT-1 Catalyst has none of these issues, sporting a friendly 1-meg input impedance and an astonishingly low 10K output impedance. When's the last time you had a fuzz work with a vibe or wah-wah? Things have changed, indeed.

Fulltone CT-1 Catalyst Guitar Effects Pedal Features:

• True Bypass switching
• Volume Knob
• Gain Knob
• Spark/Flame toggle switch
• Bass/Mids Knob
• Treble Knob

Take your six-string from clean to mean with a twist of a knob. Order your Catalyst pedal for a killer price.

Fulltone CT-1 Catalyst Guitar Effects Pedal Specifications:

• Input Impedance: 1 mOhm
• Output Impedance: 10 kOhm
• Current draw= 5 milliamps
• DC Power Options: 9 volt battery (included), voltage between 9 and 18 Volts DC as long as the adapter is (standard) 2.1mm x 5.5mm barrel plug with "Negative to Center Pin" configuration.
• Limited 5-year warranty

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I thought Fulltone was better!!!

Posted by fFBAI1975 from Midlothian,IL on Aug 26, 2009

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Blues, Jazz, Rock, Slide

I recently bought this pedal after hearing some demos and reading reviews about it. I thought that this would be a great pedal to handle a wide array of tones. When I received the pedal it was constructed very well. Knobs turned smoothly, nice paint, etc. When I plugged this in using a strat and a tele I started to use a few of the Fulltone suggested setings. The bluesy neck pickup setting was OK and this pedal works pretty well for a clean boost but after messing with the other settings it just got worse. In the manual that comes with this it states from Mike Fuller that you get a clean boost to OD to distortion to crazy fuzz with harmonics and near endless sustain. Other than the boost I found none of the other qualities mentioned. This thing sounded like a cheap transistor radio on the fuzz setting reminiscent of the Dunlop fuzz but crappier. I was running through a Fender amp with only guitar and cable. No OD!! No creamy distortion!! No magical fuzz tones!! After 30 minutes of playing, the 9V jack started making noise and was cutting in and out. I guess I have a different understanding of what boutique is than others but for now I will stick with my Keeley SD-1. Garbage pedal and it's being sent back. I am sure Fulltone makes other great products but for my first Fulltone pedal I was disappointed and the pedal was completely unusable.

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