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Please allow up to 2 weeks build time.
The Catalinbread Formula No. 5 is our take on the vintage tweed sound – that clear buttery top end, stringy but slightly spongy and growly bottom, and greasy sizzling midrange that slides right through the mix like chitlins through your lower intestine.
The Formula No. 5 is extremely input sensitive, so you can grok a variety of gain flavors just by using your guitar’s volume control – set the Gain as high as you’d like and roll back a little for chunky rhythm or further for chimey cleans, or just lighten up your picking attack – it’s that responsive.
Yeah – we don’t know either, so we came up with “Harmonic Pixelator”...
When developing the Merkin, we chose components for sweet yet buzzing tone which still has a very touch sensitive response. The Merkin is also very responsive to your guitar's volume and tone controls so you can spend less time stooped over your pedalboard, and more time actually playing. Along with a slew of sixties fuzz sounds from the Ventures to the Stooges and many points in between, The Merkin Fuzz is able to do octave-up sounds by using your guitar's neck pickup with the tone rolled off. It works great for bass too.
The life-blood of a fuzz is its power supply and the Merkin is no different. Use a carbon battery for warm vintage tone and smooth response. Use an alkaline or 9 volt dc supply for a harder sound, or run on 18 volt DC supply for even more output and an aggressive sound! Volume unity for the Merkin resides around 9:00, which means there's lots of boost on tap.
There’s tons of output on tap to pummel your preamp or another dirt box into sonic submission as well.
Oh – and it has purple knobs. You like purple, right?
Like most other Catalinbread pedals, the Pareidolia was designed for both 9v and 18v operation, the latter giving a more pronounced up-front sound to the effect. We worked very hard tuning this pedal, and the result is a complex modulation that is quite literally a mesmerizing effect, where you stop thinking and just start playing. It frees your mind to be creative. It is hypnotic, yet unlike classic modulation effects the Pareidolia doesn't pwn your sound, allowing your playing to shine through. And unlike other modulation pedals it is less picky in its placement with other pedals. Whether the Pareidolia is placed pre-dirt, post-dirt, or sandwiched between, this pedal still sounds great.
We're convinced that once you turn on the Harmonic Mesmerizer, you'll have a tough time turning it off.
The distortion ranges from mellow to blistering. The feedback loop thickens your tone, adds a unique texture to your sound, and even functions as a controllable synth. This pedal turns heads, offends traditionalists (and cats), but most importantly open doors to truely unique sounds and creative possibility.
Hand painted and signed by artist Sharlet Thompson.
Please allow 3-4 weeks for build and burn-in time.
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