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CATALINBREAD Merkin Fuzz Mosrite Fuzzrite
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CATALINBREAD MERKIN FUZZ MOSRITE FUZZRITE. The Catalinbread Merkin is a fuzz pedal that's just rite for classic sixties fuzz sounds and beyond! Extended and refined from a classic fuzz circuit, this 3 silicon transistor circuit is very textural, varying from blunt to ripping. It's controls are simple, a volume, and a texture knob with huge range, from cleanish blend counter-clockwise to full fuzz as you turn the knob clockwise. When developing the Merkin, we chose components for sweet yet buzzing tone which still has a very touch sensitive response. Along with a slew of sixties fuzz sounds from the Ventures to the Stooges and many points in between. The Merkin Fuzz is able to do octave-up sounds by using your guitar's neck pickup with the tone rolled off.
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CATALINBREAD Formula No. 5
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CATALINBREAD FORMULA NO. 5. The Formula No. 5 was inspired by old tweed amps, most notably the 5E3 circuit. The character of the 5E3 is very unique. It has very minimal power filtering, low plate voltages, elemental tone stack, and does next to nothing to control the low end between gain stages, not to mention the under-rated output transformer and speaker. The entire system runs inefficiently resulting in a loose bass, greasy mids, cutting treble, and incredible grit – none of these qualities were ideal or intentional back in the day. In spite of this, over the past five decades the amp inspired some of the coolest, most sought after guitar tones ever recorded.
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CATALINBREAD Montavillian Echo
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CATALINBREAD MONTAVILLIAN ECHO. Spoiled by the various tube driven echo units we have around the shop, we wanted the Montavillian Echo to sound and feel just as BIG! So we went all out on the audio path on this thing... We took painstaking efforts to make the dry signal sound and feel better when on than with the pedal bypassed. We decided that the corksniffer OPA2134 Burr Brown opamp was the best sounding option to achieve this. The resulting echos function to provide a sonic soup, a bed of ambience to play over. The illusion of space and size that the Montavillian provides, makes it one of the few stompboxes that comes close to those big old tube echos. We've run the Montavillian into all of our amps clean and cranked (Hiwatt, AC30, 5E3, Super Reverb, Blues Jr. etc.) we've also stacked it before our dirt pedals. We've even slammed it with numerous fuzzes and overdrives. The Montavillian handles it all with no effort. Should you need even more headroom the Montavillian can be run at 18V.
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CATALINBREAD Manx Loaghtan Fuzz
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CATALINBREAD MANX LOAGHTAN FUZZ. The Big Muff is probably one of the most sought after, and heavily replicated pedals on the planet. Even though it is still made by the original manufacturer, it's long and varied history has made it's way into many other pedal manufacturer's fold. When we set out to create the Manx Loaghtan fuzz. We wanted to be able to use this into a hot amp if you wish to, so when you lower the bass nice mid range content can cut through. We also wanted the SUSTAIN range to be usable all the way throughout the dial. Some of the tones we referenced range from Gilmour to Black Keys to J Mascis to Dead Meadow to Thurston Moore to Adrian Belew. The Manx Loaghtan Fuzz... Chunky, flutey singing sustain. Powerful Baxandall tone controls offer independent control over the bass and treble frequencies so that there is never a balancing act compromise!
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CATALINBREAD Dirty Little Secret
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CATALINBREAD DIRTY LITTLE SECRET. Introducing the new Dirty Little Secret from Catalinbread. The Dirty Little Secret has earned itself a well-deserved reputation for replicating the sound and feel of a classic era Marshall amplifier, supplying one of the most iconic guitar sounds in music. Able to clean up with a flick of your guitar's volume control, or go from mild crunch to full kerrang with your pick attack, the Dirty Little Secret has seen the inside of arenas and bedrooms alike, providing great overdriven sounds to clean backlines, low-wattage amps, and even direct applications.
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CATALINBREAD Valcoder Tremolo
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CATALINBERAD VALCODER TREMOLO. Mid 60’s Valco-style dirty garage tremolo. The Catalinbread Valcoder was designed to recreate the tube tremolo as well as the amplifier breakup of the vintage '60s Valco amplifiers. The Valcoder features an all discrete analog LFO circuit inspired by 60’s Valco tube tremolo. The Valcoder can also function as a great edge-of-breakup booster. Separate input and output controls allow you to get anything from a clean tremolo sound all the way up to a gritty tube like breakup driving the tremolo circuit.
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CATALINBREAD Octapussy Octave Fuzz
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CATALINBREAD OCTAPUSSY OCTAVE FUZZ. The more you play the Octapussy, the more sounds you’ll find in it! With the Octapussy, you can: Play sweet, breathy, delicate octave-up melodies up high on the neck. Play epic soaring leads that are full sounding with upper harmonics that bloom and bloom and bloom as you hold that bend. Get tough sounding almost ring modulated double-stops that growl when you sustain it. Obtain sounds that evoke Caribbean steel drums. Get massively huge grinding, industrial-strength power chords. Riff out with a textured, harmonically rich fuzz tone that can achieve cello-like qualities. Play otherworldly sounding arpeggios. Make strange, atonal soundscapes. Evoke the texture of a sitar. Achieve mysterious sounding droning melodies. This is one sweet sounding octave fuzz!
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CATALINBREAD RAH Royal Albert Hall WIIO
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CATALINBREAD RAH ROYAL ALBERT HALL WIIO. In January 1970 Led Zeppelin hit the stage of London's historic concert hall, Royal Albert Hall. At this performance Jimmy Page expressed himself masterfully with a broad pallet of tones and GIANT dynamic range. One day our friend Charlie got ahold of Catalinbread's chief circuit designer Howard Gee to ask if we could do it. Charlie said that he'd been trying to get this tone for years and told Howard, if anybody could do it would be Catalinbread. Having proven his ability to capture the essence and experience of famous amplifiers, Howard began experimenting with what is now the RAH. This overdrive effects pedal features the specific three-knob tone circuit straight from the custom “Jimmy Page” model Hiwatt.
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CATALINBREAD Topanga Spring Reverb
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CATALINBREAD TOPANGA SPRING REVERB. Surf’s up! And we’re all headed to Topanga, our spring reverb pedal based on the legendary Fender 6G15 outboard spring reverb unit! We’ve captured all the drip, flutter, cluck, clang, and splash of the original tubes and springs unit in a small pedal format! The outboard spring reverb unit is the sound of surf guitar as well as many other great guitar sounds from the sixties.
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CATALINBREAD Callisto Chorus Vibrato
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CATALINBREAD CALLISTO CHORUS VIBRATO. The Catalinbread Callisto is a Chorus/Vibrato pedal, which employs an MN3007 Bucket Brigade chip at its core. It's interface is simple, intuitive, and provides a multitude of sounds ranging from subtle and shimmer to rotary speaker-like to off-kilter warping/warble sounds. MIX knob smoothly dials everything from lush chorusing, to true pitch vibrato, to sea sickening warble, and has the ability to run clean dry to completely wet. Catalinbread utilizes an old school MN3007 bucket brigade chip, just like early chorus pedals, and uses an audiophile Burr Brown OPA2134 chip in the audio path to give the Callisto a natural feel and dynamic playability.
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CATALINBREAD Belle Epoch Tape Delay
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CATALINBREAD BELLE EPOCH TAPE DELAY. The Catalinbread Belle Epoch Tape Echo, has tape echo sounds so authentic you’d swear there was tape inside the pedal! Inspired by the Maestro Echoplex, EP-3 model, perhaps the most famous tape delay ever, the Belle Epoch features everything we love about the EP-3 in a small, maintenance free pedal format. We felt that a “tape echo” pedal was much more than just a standard digital delay with some “filtering” on the repeats. There are a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle traits of the Echoplex that needed to be implemented in order to be authentic. The preamp, the self-oscillation character, the ability to play the pedal as an instrument unto itself, the ability to control the “record level” of the signal hitting “tape”, the wow and flutter, the way the repeats decay, the way the circuit interfaces with the amp and other pedals - all these things were important to get right.
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CATALINBREAD Adineko Oil Can Delay
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CATALINBREAD ADINEKO OIL CAN DELAY. Not many people out there have heard of oil can delays, but for those of us who have, we remember them as lots and lots of effort with an end that justifies the means. Original oil can delays were even more unwieldy than tape echoes, because they involved an actual rotating drum filled with electrolytic oil through which the signal is passed. The Adineko contains recreations of every parameter one could imagine from an old oil can unit.
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CATALINBREAD Talisman Plate Reverb
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CATALINBREAD TALISMAN PLATE REVERB. Catalinbread are proud to brag that the Talisman is 479.99% smaller than the leading plate reverb. They've always felt something was amiss with so-called “plate reverb” settings on many products in the marketplace. Let's be honest, they often simply sounded thin, metallic and not so good. Catalinbread's goal was to capture all the goodness of classic studio plate reverb by actually experiencing a maintained EMT140 at Jackpot Studios with recording engineer Larry Crane.
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CATALINBREAD EchoRec Binson Delay
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CATALINBREAD ECHOREC BINSON DELAY. The Catalinbread Echorec has been in the making for several years, and is finally ready to be released. This multi-tap delay is based around the legendary Binson Echorec, an arcane tube echo which incorporated 4 playback heads and a spinning magnetic drum as its recording medium. The Binson is probably most famously known for Pink Floyd's use of the unit, and has long captivated musicians for both its rhythmic and ambient characteristics. The Catalinbread Echorec has 12 programs which allow for all combinations of the 4 delay heads (something the original was never capable of.) The original also has a fixed speed, and thus a fixed delay time, while the Catalinbread Echorec can go from 40ms-1000ms. The tone control is very useful, able to be tonally flat or dark and resonant on one side or bright and bubbly on the other. The mix allows for 100% wet or dry signal. Inside the pedal you have the ability to run in true-bypass or trails mode, as well as a trimmer for gain and modulation.
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CATALINBREAD Semaphore Tap Temp Tremolo
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CATALINBREAD SEMAPHORE TAP TEMPO TREMOLO. The newly redesigned Semaphore combines a fantastic audio path, with a diverse tremolo that has a bottomless feature set including 8 different waveforms, tap tempo and divide, tap tempo input, and expression pedal capabilities. It's small footprint combined with a feature set that suits both foot tappers and knob twiddlers alike, makes the Semaphore both versatile and pedalboard friendly. At the heart of the Semaphore is a lush audio path that incorporates optically controlled JFET gain stages to sculpt a gorgeous clean boost sound, that is present and alive without being peaky or harsh. We've quadrupled the number of waveforms, everything is in there from classic square, triangle, and sine waves to ramping sounds, and a mind-bending random shape.
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