Showing posts with label iommi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iommi. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Abra Kadabra! It's a Sabbra Cadabra Clone!

I'd originally intended to post another Boss project today, but I've had a very uncharacteristic failure to function issue with a Boss / AionFX build. I'm still working on that debug off and on, but in the meantime here's another pedal that I recently finished up. I'm hoping to get back to the Boss builds later in the week and get the dead one debugged.

Distortion pedals are a staple of rock pedal boards everywhere, and there are tons of options both vintage and modern to help the player get whatever particular sound they're looking for. This particular project is a clone of the Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra, which helps the player capture Tony Iommi's tone in a convenient 125B-sized box. Originally released in 2014, the pedal is still in production and isn't terribly expensive. However, you can file this one in the "it's cheaper to build" - at least a bit - category. For this build I used the AionFX Ceres project board and original MPF4393 transistors purchased directly from AionFX.