The Dirty Little Secret is something we at Catalinbread have been harboring for quite a long time now and we’re finally ready after months of testing and refining to spill the beans...

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If you’ve got the sickness for the tweed, we’ve got your cure!

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.

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What do you call an effect that isn’t quite a Bit Crusher, or an Octave, or a Harmonizer, or a Ring Modulator, or a Lo-Fi dirt box/fuzz – but a bit of a blend of each?

Yeah – we don’t know either, so we came up with “Harmonic Pixelator”...

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The Catalinbread Merkin is a fuzz pedal that's just rite for classic sixties fuzz sounds and beyond! Extended and refined from a classic fuzz circuit, this 3 silicon transistor circuit is very textural, varying from blunt to ripping. It's controls are simple, a volume, and a texture knob with huge range, from cleanish blend counter-clockwise to full fuzz as you turn the knob clockwise.

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.

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Catalinbread presents the evolution of the Ottava Magus, with the Ottava Magus II. Upgraded from the former bantam series, the new Ottava Magus II has all the benefits of the previous version, but the circuit has been revamped, retuned, and has an added Saturation control that offers the ability of subtle ‘flutey’ high octave tones or crazier full-on ring mod sounds, the Intensity control covers a wide range from clean to barking. The input sensitivity is much more forgiving than typical octaves, so you can actually get a lot of different flavors just by adjusting the controls on your guitar. Back off your guitar volume for more subtle parts and still have the octave clear and present with the natural decays intact. Play on your bridge pickup down low on the neck for piano-like overtones on your bass strings – try that with a conventional octave pedal!

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?

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The Catalinbread Pareidolia Harmonic Mesmerizer is our newest development. It began over a year ago, and we are very proud of the results. It isn't quite a vibe, it isn't quite a phasor, it isn't quite a tremolo, it isn't quite a filter - though it is exactly all of these things.

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.

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Semaphore Tremolo Delivers classic tremolo sounds from smooth buttery coaxing of "harmonic vibrato" to hard chop "repeat percussion". But it doesn't leave you without the more nontraditional pulses, swells, blips, & surf amplitude modulation. The Semaphore doesn't color your tone, what you put into it comes out. Absolutely, no volume drop and none of the sterile digital fake-ness you get from the "competition"...

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When we originally set out on our quest to make the best Bass overdrive ever, we never imagined that it could also sound so amazing with guitar – but then we got to thinking about some of the classic late ‘60s/early ‘70s ‘Ya-Yas’ era tones and thought we should take a stab at them. And heck while we’re at it, it would be really cool if it worked for the more modern drop tuned heavy stuff too. Made sense since those tones were due in large part to guitars being played through amps designed for bass, right?

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Tultex fine jersey tee. Brown in color. Perfect for extreme bike riding or extreme couch lounging.

Tultex fine jersey tee. Camel in color. They say that camel is the "new" sand. Whatever the fuck that means...

Tultex fine jersey tee. Coal black in color. Not recommended for night-time jogging; excellent for night-time stalking.

Tultex fine jersey tee. Light Blue in color. That's all I have to say about that.

SuperCharged OD The audio equivalent of a forced induction high displacement big block make up the heart of the SCOD's "distortion powerplant". It is designed like a tube amp, fine tuned cascaded gain stages cause the distortion, not diodes. We knew we had a winner when it made our 5W 6V6 amp push air like a full stack. This pedal rocks harder than a Heart 8-track in a Hemi Cuda outside of a high school in 1978! ...

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As a clean boost the tone that goes in is exactly the tone that comes out, only LOUDER. Provides upward of 35dB of boost. The high input impedance makes the SCP the perfect buffer to keep your signal strong through long cable runs and large pedal boards. The fat boost adds more girth and growl to your sound. The SCP gives you MORE of what you have already got!

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Catalinbread presents the new & improved Teaser Stallion. This old favorite has been shrunk down to a standard sized enclosure, using a toggle switch for the oscillation circuit instead of a second foot switch. Though the size may have shrunk, the circuit has been amped up, making this lust pent beast even more aggressive and chaotic.

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.

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The Usual Suspects is an expanded edition of the Dirty Little Secret. Considering how well the DLS stacks with treble boosters and fuzzes, The Usual Suspects adds a triple boost to the DLS circuit. The three include a treble boost, a mid-honk boost, and a 'faux' fuzz. There are six pedals in the line, depicting colorful and imaginative characters in a line-up.

Hand painted and signed by artist Sharlet Thompson.

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Catalinbread WIIO Sheer raw power. Dynamics that feel like a roundhouse kick to the chest. Incredibly responsive clean up with the flick of the wrist. This is the WIIO...

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