Thursday, February 23, 2023

OVERDRIVE CALINE CP-515 CAMILLA DISTORTION ...Metal Amp-in-a-Box ___$33.00 USD

CALINE CP-515
CAMILLA DISTORTION
$33.00 USD
from AliExpress
with free shipping
The standard Caline pedal is a clone and is part of their 5 Series. A few months ago they had about 60 pedals. They never totally discontinue any pedal. Today there were only 9 on the site WTF. A few times they have even closed down their site for months so dumb sh@t is normal. They seldom have more than about 6 readily available on Amazon or on-line stores. The Big but is ...all the others come and go at random on Ali Express. On occasion a new model pops up there too.
The new G-series is their #1 push. A few are quite good but many of the Dirt pedals are not as good as the old 5 Series models. Besides the G-Series is around $60.00 USD so near double the price.
To totally confuse the issue every few years even the old models get a cosmetic face lift.
OK so to the point. I think the Camilla is new or at least got a face lift. Also i usually dig and find what this is a clone of but I can only say it fits into the early Metal thing like the Peavey 5150 amp is half Marshall half high gain Metal.
The layout is volume, tone presence and gain.
CONCLUSION
As noted I do not know what pedal they clone, at least yet. I do know came out a year ago with just one video. It does sound very good. It has a 90's vibe to the sound. A nice bit of the Plexi and JCM 800 creeps in and is very noticeable set to a medium gain. On the whole though it has a good Pro sound for an entry level price.

5 comments:

  1. i have read that the Carmilla is a rebadged sandstorm. i have also read that it is a dyna RED 4K… What do you think?

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  2. sandstorm is a MI Crunch clone

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  3. I do not think it is because I owned a Sandstorm and they sounded different and had very short sustain.

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  4. Where you happy with thé sandstorm?

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  5. Pretty sure this isn’t a dyna red clone. That’s what the action replay pedal was. It was pretty good. I haven’t heard this one yet but op is right… crunch box clones don’t have much sustain. The sandstorm is great for rock riffs.

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