Saturday, December 30, 2023

OVERDRIVE- CALINE CP-14 English Man Distortion ....discontinued? or not?

$35.00 USD
CALINE CP-14
 English Man  DISTORTION
Two years ago on the then Caline site they had over 60 pedals but they cut that in half. This one came out in 2014 so it could not last forever, lol. That said with some there are hundreds in small warehouses not yet sold and others that are sold from Chinese stores but simply not offered direct from Caline.
This pedal is no longer on AliExpress but can be found on stores posted in all the usual places. It is a direct clone of the Carl Martin Plexitone which is still available direct from C.M. for $200.00 USD. The Plexitone itself is a take on the old Marshall Guv-nor pedal.
The layout is dead simple with Gain, Level and Tone.
CONCLUSION ___
By todays standards it is not even close to one of the less ambitious MIAB. The PedalPalFx PAL 800 Gold v. 4 also 
$200 makes the C.M. sound like total junk as a serious 
offering as a Marshall in a box.
But as a $35 OD in the OpAmp Boss type of pedal category 
it certainly passes the smell test, lol. In short it would 
not be out of place beside my PedalPal on some tunes 
as the right kind of noise, lol. 

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