REVERB- CATALINBREAD CB Paint ___NEW ___ Alesis Microverb clone

catalinbread

CB PAINT  LATE 1900s REVERBERATOR

$250.00 USD

I the 80's new small companies sprung up to service the project studios needing Verbs &/or Delays. At first there were the racks. 

In fact I have the Alesis Quad Reverb and later half racks like the Microverb.

Primarily simple devices with a handful of sounds. What they lacked 

in specs they made up for in character. In fact the big studios all 

bought them too and kept their pricy units for Vocals.

The layout is Tone, Onset (it delays the Verb coming on), 

Mix (your wet dry mix) and 6 verb voices.

     CONCLUSION __

It is well done and very effective. It is however

neither high-tech sonics nor classic like a Spring 

or Plate both of which can be found for around

half the $$$. 

 

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OVERDRIVE- DIRTY BOY Co. Silver Boy ___NEW ___great MIAB but B.S. marketing

DIRTY BOY

SilverBOY 

$475.00 USD

The company are infamous for making odd analog pedals by coming to the idea through the back door. This is for intent & purpose a MIAB but the voice was emulated by using the

sound of modelers digital version. The layout is Volume, Gain, Treble, Mids and Bass. Variac adds sag and saturation. There 

is a secondary output that is voiced to sound like a cab.

     CONCLUSION ___ 

Once you put the pretensions and gimmicky bullsh@t 

aside to have a basic MIAB analog pedal. This one

checks all the boxes and has an overall very pleasing earthy organic sound with a lot of character.

The price is obscene. There pedals or 

even better for half this.  

OVERDRIVE- SOLODALLAS The ComanDrive 65___NEW___ Secret Sauce-in-a-Box

SD SOLODALLAS

The ComanDrive 65 (CD65)

$345.00 USD

The video goes into all the detail. The big deal for most buyers 

is this unit is the Preamp part of Angus Young's of AC/DC fame 

wireless system. It changed his sound so much that he recorded  

all those famous early recordings with his wireless, never a cable.

It literally exaggerates the dynamic range before compressing 

the sound. The result is the sound is sustained but never 

squashed. 

    CONCLUSION ___

It is damn pricy but it has a preamp, a 

compressor and a compandor all in the 

same pedal. Each is set to work as one 

perfect circuit. A near impossible task 

since a compandor is a device made to 

do the exact opposite as a compressor.

OVERDRIVE- DECADES PEDALS Multijam Distortion ___NEW___ Multivox clone

 DECADES pedals 

MULTIJAM Distortion

$250.00 USD

Multivox in the mid 70 licensed some 19 pedals MIJ to sell as budget pedals. This is a take on the Big Jam Distortion model. It like the 

original uses the 741 OpAmp and the clipping diodes are the 1N60 Germanium. The layout is Volume, Gain and Tone.

A toggle switches between a modern or to the original vintage voice. 

A second switch fattens the lows. Inside the box you can cut highs or lows and set the boost level.

     CONCLUSION ___

It is loaded with character and that germanium diode takes me

to dirt heaven. The cosmetics are great. they captured the look even though we are getting an industry standard Hammond B. 

box. $250.00 USD  ain't cheap but it has become the standard 

price from most small handmade pedals.  

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A bit of trivia ...Oddly Hammond are no longer made in 

China, but not brought back to the U.S. But made to 

original U.S. spec in Canada.

OVERDRIVE- GIZMO AUDIO Sweet Breakup ___NEW___ MIAB? Bassman/Dumble?

gizmoaudio 

 S|B  sweet breakup 

$300.00 USD

The company is a bit ambiguous but with Marshall 

amp knobs on the pedal I'm calling it a MIAB. But?

The layout is Volume, Treble Bass and Gain. Another 

knob is called Bite meant to give you a tight choppy attack. A Fat switch. It lets you cut or boost lows. Internally you have both a lowpass and highpass filter. 

A second footswitch brings in a boost.

    CONCLUSION __

It sports the right look. It isn't even close to those making a MIAB that can ace a shootout against the real amp and score scary close. 

It is closer to a few Bassman/Dumblish efforts. For

those you have a lot of choices. I find both the 

J. Rockett pedals are much more satisfying.

OVERDRIVE- RED MOD PEDALS Soviet ... Sovtek MIG50-in-a-Box

$340.00 USD

RED mod pedals 

SOVIET guitar preamp 

A rather obscure Italian builder. This is his ...Sovtek MIG50 

amp-in-a-Box. It is a FET based clone of the preamps circuit. 

In one form or another Electro Harmonix has sold it for decades. 

The layout is Volume, Gain, Treble, Mids and Bass. 

            CONCLUSION __

It sounds like the amp. Nasty, nasty. 

It has a lot of character. I love it. 

... but not at the price!!!

REVERB- EARTHQUAKER DEVICES Towers ___NEW ___ anti-shoegaze ambient verb

$300.00 USD

EarthQuaker Devices 

 Towers   

The big deal about this is yet is not just another shoegaze, Star Wars soundtrack ambient Reverb. You could actually play tunes 

on it without being in completion with pedal telling you by the second what you can or cannot play. It does not turn what you want to play into a massive audio flatulence. 

 

            CONCLUSION __ 

Musical. Not another crash and burn.

Reasonable priced as there is literally 

half a Moog Synth under the hood. 

 

OVERDRIVE- CITADEL ELECTRONICS Overtuber ___NEW ___ damn impressive but ...

$500.00 USD

CITADEL ELECTRONICS

OVERTUBER

A medium to high gain tube OD. The layout tells the story. 

You get the usual Volume, Tone and Gain. Body is a low end Bass boost. Girth controls the saturation ratio & compression of the Lows without interacting with the Gain. It gives you 

a massive low end without mud.

     CONCLUSION___

The overall sound has a luxurious mass to it. Just saying 

its fat does not do it justice. It however needs a full EQ 

of Treble, Mids and Bass to justify its heavy price tag.  

 

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FUZZ- BEETRONIX Pollinator___NEW ___ delay/modulation & Fuzz ???

BEETRONIX

P O L L I N A TO R     

$350.00 USD

This is not 3 separate effects that can be addressed like 3 

separate conventional units. If you think all that sounds 

very Shoegaze then congratulations, you are right. As 

always their pedals are luxury items of build and cosmetics.

     CONCLUSION __

It is a novelty pedal that has minimum use if any 

on a single tune you know or perhaps are playing 

in a band. With a conventional Modulation, Delay, 

and Fuzz you have an endless palette that used 

together you can go for a different 'weird' on 

any tune yet use them to cover thousands of

conventional tunes. Add to that this pedal 

is all digital. With separate pedals you 

can use all or a mix of both.

   

AMP- KEMPER PROFILER MK 2 ___NEW ___ is it past its Best Before date?

KEMPER PROFILER   

The Kemper has been around since 2011. 

The 2026 has updated specs but otherwise 

is the 'same old'.

CONCLUSION ___ 

Has it past its 'BEST BEFORE' date ???