Cock Fight—Enhanced Twist, More Guitar Effects

Electro Harmonix always manage to come up with an enhanced and unique twist when it comes to developing new pedals. It is not different with their new product, the Cock Fight.

Cock Fight combines filtering with fuzz. One of the filter modes, Cry matches a typical wah-wah pedal, with a frequency knob which will allow it to be ‘parked’ at any desired point in the sweep, but an optional expression pedal can be connected to animate the filter in the traditional wah-pedal manner. It also features another filter, the Talk.

This filter mode, Talk, imposes vowel-like formants on the sound, creating varying possible guitar effects and guitar tones by simply sweeping it with an external pedal, or by again parking the control to create a static filter effect. With a small switch, it can toggle between the two filter options.

With Cock Fight, there is a variable-drive fuzz circuit is included. With this, the filters can create its most dramatic sound when processing harmonically rich sounds. This feature can be switched to go before or after the filter section. It will give you a result which will be sonically and uniquely different. A center position on the pre-/post-filter toggle switch turns the fuzz off. All three audio connections are on quarter-inch jack sockets, one for the input, one for the output and one for connecting an optional expression pedal.

To have an overview of its controls, Cock Fight has a main control with Volume, (filter) Frequency, Tone and Drive. It also has two additional mini knobs, one of which regulates the amount of low end added into the signal and the other the biasing of the fuzz circuit. With the fuzz bias control turned in a manner of anticlockwise, the fuzz takes on a dying-battery character. There is also footswitch bypasses the pedal when desired, and there’s a socket for the included standard centre-negative 9.6V power supply, but battery operation is also possible, which will be acquired with a screwdriver to access the battery compartment.

To elaborate the sound output, the sound produced with Cock Fight is most focused with the fuzz placed before the wah. In Talk mode, the vowel filter can create a sound with a wide range of usable guitar tones, which will attained by adjusting and using the Frequency knob. The filters on their own have a more traditional overdrive as an alternative to the inbuilt fuzz can yield plenty of useful sounds that work especially well for soloing or riffing.