EHX Cock Fight Pedal

Electro-Harmonix introduces the Cock Fight pedal, a filter effect stompbox that gives you the sound of a cocked wah.

EHX Cock Fight

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This pedal features two expressive filters where you can fine tune the frequencies, allowing you to produce the sound of cocked or stopped wah and talking pedal sounds.

Guitarists have been using “cocked” wah’s for a while now, it is especially useful for blues players who are looking to emphasize the mids better. However bulky wah pedals that are stationary can be problematic, they take up too much space and can accidentally be moved out of position quite easily.

This led guitar pedal builders to create a more practical cocked wah solution in regular pedal format. Electro-Harmonix’ attempt to building one resulted in Cock Fight pedal, a wah and talking stompbox without the expression pedal that you can rock back and forth. This makes it more compact and easier to integrate into any type of pedalboards, and more importantly it is a more reliable option.

Reducing the need for a separate dirt pedal, the company equipped the Cock Fight pedal with a versatile fuzz circuit. This allows you to introduce fuzz into your guitar signal, and it gives you the choice whether to implement it before or after the filter section. You can also easily disengage the fuzz when not needed. Note that you can fine tune the fuzz effect with the drive and volume settings.

A comprehensive set of controls are provided for tone shaping, including frequency and tone. The Tone knob lets you go from brighter to darker fuzz, while the Bias knob emulates the sound of fuzz pedals with dying batteries, essentially altering the power of the circuit. Frequency lets you specify the filter position, while the Bottom knob lets you add in extra bottom end when needed.

Finally the pedal has two switches, one of which lets you go from regular crybaby wah tones to a more throathy talkbox sound, while the other switch lets you pick where the fuzz circuit is placed in relation to the filter.

Finally, an expression input is provided where you can plug-in an expression pedal to gain realtime control over the filter. This transforms the Cock Fight into a full pledged wah pedal.

Watch the company’s video demo:

Electro Harmonix says, “Our new Cock Fight lets a player dial in all those great tones and is like getting a stuck wah, stuck talking pedal, expression-pedal controlled wah and talking pedals, plus variable fuzz in one device!”

The MSRP for the new EHX Cock Fight is $148.90, it comes with a standard EHX 9.6DC-200mA PSU. For more information, you can visit Electro-Harmonix.

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