PEDALS
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Serrano Picoso
A very simple, transparent, low noise, and extraordinarily tiny boost. Provides
30dB of clean boost. When you can't compromise your tone and need a buffer
or boost that doesn't take up a lot of space the Serrano Picoso is your
only real choice.
V8 Fuzz Tone Generator
First things first
don't just turn the knobs all the way up! This pedal has an insane amount
of output and when you crank the fuzz knob past Noon you've kicked in it's
evil alter ego. Pitch following subharmonics, oscillations, and functions
that we at Catalinbread haven't even fully explored. At Noon and under you're
fuzz tone will be gorgeous unsputtery easy like Sunday morning.
HyperPak Dirty Channel
Inspired
by watching the Leeds DVD too many times in a row. Catalinbread wanted to
make a pedal that responded to dynamics, sounds giant, and cleans up amazingly
well with your instrument's volume knobs. The perfect pedal for all of your
amps without a dirty channel, hence the name. Also makes a great pedal to
stack with your other boxes.
Super Chili Picoso
When used as a clean boost (that is not pushing your amp into overdrive)
it will make "thin" sounding pickups sound more ballsy and full because
it does not limit frequencies as basic treble boosters do. The Super Chili
Picoso is for any guitar player who loves the tone of their tube amps (who
the heck doesn't?) but has always wanted "MORE" out of them. The Picoso
delivers this with ease and then some.
Many Picoso uses have told me that they NEVER turn this pedal off! They
have informed me of a number of uses for their Super Chili Picoso. First,
as a clean decibel boost for solos and loud passages setting the gain to
about 75%. Second, as an overdrive unit that pushes their amp into overdrive
utilizing their tube amp's natural overdrive setting the gain to above 80%.
Third, as a buffer/line driver for driving long cable runs or pedal chains
setting the gain to unity (the Picoso does not attenuate levels). Next,
as a signal to amp kill switch for silent on-stage tuning. Finally, both
outputs can be used to bridge channels on two channel amps w/reverb correcting
the internal phase cancellation that arises from this practice.
Super Chili Picoso feature summary:
Approaching 35dB unadulterated clean boost.
Boost and inverted buffering output.
Second non-inverted buffered output.
MOSFET protected against static.
True bypass with LED.
2.1mm DC jack for powering with adapter.
Teaser Stallion
Subtle Overdrive to Blistering Gain that cleans nicely up with your volume
knob... And that is just the conservative channel.
Engage Channel Two and you step into the preliminary understandings of chaos...
Imagine standing between two mirrors and pondering the infinite reflections
of yourself. Um.. What the heck does this got to do with a dirtbox? Well
to some it up Channel Two re-amplifies, re-distorts, then re-amplifies and
re-distorts the signal from Channel One over and over again. The results
are incredibly interactive and never-before-experienced sounds.
Semaphore Tremolo
Features
WITHOUT Benefits = IRRELEVANCE! Look around and all you will see in the
tremolo world are a bunch of devices that are physically too BIG which sport
features that ultimately do very little for musicians. Thus the question
arrises what makes for a great tremolo effect pedal? Well, we've been taking
notes for literally years and threw them into the foot-long equation and
the Semaphore was the result. Slight buttery smooth warble to full toggleswitched
chopping! Yeah, yeah, yeah a tremolo is supposed to do those things who
cares? Ah well yeah, we threw in a few extra features on the Semaphore that
actually do something useful for players. Firstly, we decided to brag about
the fact that you don't have to settle for "apparent volume drop" when engaged.
Which leads to the next benefit functions as a volume boost WITH or WITHOUT
volume fluctuation, YES unmodulated volume boost by turning down the "Depth"
knob. Thus if you're reckless like me you can turn the volume up TOO much
and you'll be surprised at the tonal/character variations on tap. Tonal
variations ranging from clean boosting to mild drive to dirty! Third, we
knew we wanted a device to control our beloved Teaser Stallion