THIS THING BLEW MY MIND!
Is it the most exciting pedal I ever heard. No...many pedals are designed to be larger then life like my Apocalypse Fuzz and a JMC 800 effort made by JHS The AT...an Angry Charlie on steroids.
This pedal is all about putting a myth into a reality. The roots of much of today's approach to rock music were laid down on the record of the mid 60's. The sound of British rock in the 60's and early 70's was the Marshall Plexi Stack.
CATALINBREAD'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET
What's the big deal about another Plexi pedal everyone has one. Catalinbread set out to capture the ultimate dead accurate Plexi sound and they have nailed it in every way. Not only is the sound dead accurate down to the cabinet thump. The pedal responses to your guitars volume knob...More important ...it responds to
your touch...every nuance of your playing effects the sound.
It comes set to the super lead Plexi..(thick upper mids more distorted...Strat friendly )but you can open the pedal and switch it to the super bass (heavy low mids ...cleaner...and is magical with a fuzz..especially an old style Germanium Fuzz
The 'super bass' is NOT a few tweaks to sell the pedal...It is quite effectively a different amp
or can I say...a different pedal. (Just listen to Hendrix do the The Wind Cries Mary...this thing has it nailed!) Catalinbread could have very easily made 2 pedals and sold them separate. Not happy to stop there they have a second presence switch in the pedal to match with your amp ...to more accurately turn your amp into an extension of the sound.
In short it takes a Fender and turns it into Marshall.
BONUS...It has the very,very best (on-line) manual I have ever read in my life.
It tells you how...why....and what guitar and amp works best with
which settings. It gets into the history of the 2 original amp designs...that is not only entertaining...but is done in such a way as to help you choose which of the 2 voicings will be best...for your tastes ...the guitar and other pedals you have. It even deals with your amplifier.
They are so honest with what pedals were used with the original amps...that they end up promoting pedals that you may wish to get....and they do not make.
The 'super bass' is NOT a few tweaks to sell the pedal...It is quite effectively a different amp
or can I say...a different pedal. (Just listen to Hendrix do the The Wind Cries Mary...this thing has it nailed!) Catalinbread could have very easily made 2 pedals and sold them separate. Not happy to stop there they have a second presence switch in the pedal to match with your amp ...to more accurately turn your amp into an extension of the sound.
In short it takes a Fender and turns it into Marshall.
BONUS...It has the very,very best (on-line) manual I have ever read in my life.
It tells you how...why....and what guitar and amp works best with
which settings. It gets into the history of the 2 original amp designs...that is not only entertaining...but is done in such a way as to help you choose which of the 2 voicings will be best...for your tastes ...the guitar and other pedals you have. It even deals with your amplifier.
They are so honest with what pedals were used with the original amps...that they end up promoting pedals that you may wish to get....and they do not make.
I RATE THIS PEDAL A 10 out of 10....better still make that an 11.
CHECK OUT ALL THE VIDS!!!!
2 pedals in one box
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Catalinbread promote using this pedal as a
'FOUNDATION PEDAL' >>>
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