Galileo is Catalinbread’s latest overdrive pedal, combining the CB30 and Naga Viper pedal into a unit aims to churn out Brian May’s modified Vox AC30 tone. This pedal was born out of the combined idea of Pro Guitar Shop and Catalinbread, which ended up aiming to mimic the classic tone of Queen’s iconic guitarist. The Galileo pedal takes the best elements from Catalinbread’s popular pedals. It is comparable to a hot-rodded version of the CB30 pedal, with an additional fine tuned treble boost, based on the circuitry of their Naga Viper pedal. According to Catalinbread, the combined overdrive and treble boost aims to provide you with a tone that is similar to that of Brian May’s wall of modified Vox AC30 amps. Instead of just describing the tone, Catalinbread has uploaded a couple of demo videos so you can judge the tone for yourself. Does it capture Brian May’s sought after tone? You be the judge: The Galileo pedal provides you with simple controls knobs so you won’t get lost in setting up. You get basic equalizer control via the Treble and Bass knobs, and you also get to control the output via the Volume knob. Further tone shaping is

Catalinbread unveils the Callisto Chorus/Vibrato pedal, a compact pedal with MN3007 Bucket Brigade chip at its core. Bucket brigade design implies that your guitar signal passes along a chain of capacitors instead of being digitally processed, this lets the Callisto produce a warmer analog tone. Catalinbread designed this pedal to be simple and intuitive while still being flexible enough to provide various chorus and vibrato sounds. It is said that you can produce a wide range of chorus effects, from subtle and shimmery to rotary speaker-like, up to exaggerated warble sounds. The pedals flexibility is controlled by its Density knob, it lets you adjust the delay line time into your preferred setting. Another important control parameter is the Mix knob, which lets you dial in your chorus or pitch vibrato settings from dry to completely wet. Other controls are the Width knob, which controls the sweep depth of the chorus effect, and the Rate knob which can go from syrupy slow to ring-mod like intensity. Catalinbread assures that the Callisto has true bypass and is built using quality components. They used old school MN3007 bucket brigade chip, the same ones found on early chorus pedals, and they used an audiophile

Catalinbread unveils the new Karma Suture, a pedal that sustains as it generates even-order harmonic distortion. Related Feature:Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret This versatile harmonic generator utilizes a NOS Russian PNP germanium transistor, an NPN silicon transistor, a germanium diode and a silicon diode, allowing for a wide range of harmonically rich overdriven tones. Because of its harmonic properties, you can use the new Karma Suture as a fuzz, overdrive, or booster pedal. You can plug it straight to your amp or chain it to your existing set of effects. This pedal is inspired by the famous Harmonic Percolator and Catalinbread didn’t just settle for a clone. They expanded the potential of the Percolator circuit by equipping the pedal with Density and Diodes control knobs, which took them months of fine-tuning to finally get the sound they wanted – “a drive pedal that generates predominantly even-order harmonic distortion that sustains while harmonics bubble up”. According to the brand, the resulting tone features improved note clarity compared to regular dirt and boost pedals, even at high-gain settings. With the Karma Suture, complex chords will ring articulately regardless of dirt applied. This means that you can use the pedal as your main effect

Catalinbread introduces its latest pedal, the Echorec, giving you the sound of analog magnetic drum echo in a compact and modern package. The pedal is based on the Binson Echorec, a tube echo with 4 playback heads and a spinning magnetic drum made famous by Pink Floyd. The Catalinbread Echorec is designed to faithfully emulate the effect that was used on Pink Floyd hits like Echoes, Time and Interstellar Overdrive. Catalinbread did not stop at just mimicking, they improved on the original by giving it a modern and reliable build as well as a Delay Time control that gives you a full second of sweep compared to the original’s 300 milliseconds. A wealth of front panel controls offer detailed contouring of your sound. You can adjust the Mix, Swell, Tone, Delay Time and pick from different preset Programs. The mix knob lets you set the dry/effect ratio, the swell knob gives you control over feedback repeats and the tone control lets you shape the sound. The 12-way program select control lets you pick the sound of playback head 1 and all the possible combinations of playback head 2, 3 and 4. Aside from these controls, the Echorec features an internal

Catalinbread introduces the new Adineko Oil Can Delay pedal, based on oil can echo units from the ’60s. Related Feature:Catalinbread Topanga Spring Reverb This delay pedal comes with an artificially aged look, complete with weathering effects and stains, all of which match the murky warble of its vintage echo tone. This pedal mimics the unique behavior of old “oil can” echo units, specifically how their echo characteristics seem to change at random, where every unit has a subtly different echo, and even the same unit seem to change over time. The story goes that Catalinbread started working on an oil can delay pedal back in the summer of 2012, around the same time when they were working on the Echorec. Now years after, they finally got the bright yet dark sounding echo with vibrato modulation packed inside the Adineko Oil Can Delay pedal. Catalinbread says, “As we always strive to do when making something old, new again, we want to honor the old experience and expand upon it.” Instead of being stuck to just one setting, you get varying levels of murky warble as found on old echo units, all you have to do is tweak the Viscosity knob. Being

Catalinbread releases the Topanga Spring Reverb, a stompbox based on vintage outboard spring reverb units. Related Feature:Catalinbread Echorec This pedal is designed to reproduce the surf guitar sound and other reverb-laden tones that outboard tube reverb units helped popularize in the sixties. Outboard tube reverb units are known for sounding organic and dynamic, often times considered as big feeling musical instruments unto themselves. An important difference that outboard reverb units have compared to those bundled with amps is that they are run in front of the amp, adding more intensity and subtly distorting the reverb signal. Now Catalinbread took the advantages of these bulky reverb units and packed it into a compact stompbox. The Catalinbread Topanga Spring Reverb pedal is specifically based on the Fender 6G15 outboard spring reverb unit. According to the brand, “The Topanga is the product of many years of listening and playing old units and months of fine tuning.” They also add that they “captured all the drip, flutter, cluck, clang, and splash of the original tubes and springs unit in a small pedal format”. Like the original outboard unit, the new Topanga pedal comes with a Dwell knob that controls how hard the springs were

JHS introduces the new Panther Cub Delay, featuring eight Bucket Brigade chips with up to 1.1 seconds of delay time. Related Feature:New Clip-on Tuners from Kinsman It is based on the Panther Analog Delay, having the same capabilities and adding a few improvements – all while having a smaller overall size. JHS describes the pedal as their most complicated pedal to date, carrying modern features while retaining 100% analog circuitry. Here is what they had to say: “We are proud to bring to you the Panther Cub. True Bucket Brigade delay that has the tone and options to cover any style, any use, and any player.” At the core of this stompbox are eight 3208 Bucket Brigade chips, assembled in Kansas City, USA to produce analog quality delay that go up to 1.1 seconds. The use of bucket brigade chips are favored because of its classic sound, it has less high frequencies than digital delay but adds more depth and warmth to the delay sound. The resulting effect sounds less harsh and is easier to fit into recordings. Traditional delay controls are provided including dedicated knobs for Mix, Speed, Depth and Feedback. JHS then took it a step further by

JHS unveils the Emperor pedal, a multi-voiced chorus and vibrato effect pedal in one, with tap tempo. Related Feature:JHS Panther Cub Delay Pedal This pedal offers versatile modulation options, from analog chorus to pitch vibrato with rotary speaker emulation, waveform selection and modern true bypass with buffered bypass option. According to the company, the new JHS Emperor is built using the same topology as vintage Arion SCH-1 chorus pedals. The SCH-1 were Japan-made chorus pedals that started out as cheap alternatives to other big name brands. However It ended up being on the pedalboards of professionals! Many players stand by the claim that old Arion SCH-1 chorus pedals are organic sounding and that they are great at emulating the rotating speaker Leslie effect. Now JHS has incorporated the topology of this vintage pedal into the JHS Emperor, and pairs it with a 3207 bucket brigade chipset. The company says that, “The end result allows you to have a host of vintage modulation tones at your disposal with the amenities and modern flair that only we can offer. From vintage Boss VB-2, CE-2, CE-1, as well as the legendary and rare SCH-1, the Emperor lets you explore true analog modulation at

JHS introduce the Twin Twelve, a pedal that reproduces the preamp and overdrive tones of the Silvertone 1484 Twin Twelve Amplifier. Related Feature:JHS Emperor Chorus/Vibrato Pedal This pedal is meant to faithfully capture and replicate the tones found on the humble amp that started small yet ended up being used by big name guitarists and professionals. So what separates the Twin Twelve from the ocean of overdrive pedals available in the market? According to its designer, this pedal gives out a unique classic tone that closely resembles the Silvertone 1484, and behaves much like an old tube amp. They were able to achieve this by utilizing multiple transistor stages that discretely operates to take the place of the original tubes. Each of these transistor stages are said to be meticulously hand-tuned to achieve the ideal voltage that helps the pedal recreate the valve tone of the original amplifier. JHS Pedals provided the back story behind the pedal, “In 1963 Silvertone* introduced the 60 Watt Model 1484 guitar amplifier. Originally a student model amplifier, the 1484 has since become legendary, hard to find, and coveted by some of the biggest names in music. From the time of its debut in the