Catalinbread Cold One updates the DOD Punkifier with a Glitch knob
Graham Coxon played the DOD Punkifier on Blur records; the Cold One is Catalinbread's take on it, adding a knob for glitchy, arpeggiating fuzz.
If the guitar solo on Blur’s “Coffee & TV” is stuck in your head, you may have heard a DOD Punkifier. Graham Coxon played one, and Catalinbread calls the pedal “an unsung classic”. Its new Cold One is the company’s “next-level take” on that circuit, and the biggest addition is a fifth knob that brings in a glitchy, arpeggiating fuzz.
The original gave you four knobs: distortion gain (“Slam”), fuzz/distortion blend (“Punk”), tone (“Spikes”) and volume (“Menace”). Catalinbread says it made “tasteful appointments” to those controls, names and ranges included, so on the Cold One they read Gain, Fuzz Blend, Tone and Vol.
Glitch lives on the fuzz side of the circuit only. Fully down, you hear the normal fuzz; fully up, only the glitch fuzz is left. Fuzz Blend then mixes that whole fuzz side against the distortion, just as the Punkifier did, while Gain works on the distortion alone and does nothing once Fuzz Blend is maxed. Run the two blends to their end stops and each of the three circuits comes through unmixed.
There’s a bass trick hidden in there. Set Gain low and the distortion side behaves like a clean channel, which turns Fuzz Blend into a clean blend. Catalinbread says that makes the Cold One usable on bass.
Tone is active, so it lifts highs or lows rather than cutting signal. Input and output buffers let the pedal sit anywhere in a chain. Power is 9 to 18 V DC centre-negative at 4 mA, and Catalinbread says it roars at 18 V. Full controls and specs are on our Cold One product page.
Catalinbread’s own store lists it as shipping within two to three business days.
