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Catalinbread’s Bitters reimagines Alesis’ cult sound-mangling DJ effects unit as a guitar pedal
By Phil Weller published
The Bitters pedal offers a host of out there effects which can be tamed or intensified with a Mix knob

Brian May reveals which affordable amp-in-a-box gets closest to his iconic Queen tone
By Matt Owen published
The Red Special / Vox AC30 combo is one of music's most coveted tones, but this sub-$200 pedal has May's personal seal of approval

Catalinbread‘s Perseus Dio crams its two favorite octave-down styles into one pedal
By Phil Weller published
The Perseus Dio blends a guitar’s dry signal with one- and two-octave down channels, with “heavy duty” low-pass filters adding further flavor

Catalinbread's StarCrash Fuzz and SideArm Overdrive aim to inject a fresh twist to golden-era gain tones
By Phil Weller published
The pedals look to bring the tried-and-trusted tones of the '70s' most famed high-gain effects into the modern era

“Our most ethereal reverb unit to date”: Catalinbread sets its sights on celestial ambient tones with the Sinkhole Modulated Reverb – which doubles as a clean boost
By Matt Owen published
Looking to up your reverb game with some sweet space-y sounds, with added chorus to boot? Catalinbread might have the answer

“A dirt device that covers all the gain bases”: Catalinbread sees the JHS Pedals Notaklön and raises the Knight School Overdrive – an $85 DIY pedal kit based on a timeless circuit favored by Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Mayer and Paul Gilbert
By Matt Owen published
The $85 kit can come ready for assembly or readymade for your pedalboard, and harks back to an early overdrive circuit that has been tweaked by EHX, Way Huge and many more

An arena on your ’board: this guitar pedal recreates the gigantic ’80s reverb beloved by Bruce Springsteen and Phil Collins
By Matt Parker published
Want to get your guitar sound in the air tonight? Catalinbread’s CBX Gated Reverb will channel your inner stadium rocker

“A fully customizable amp-in-a-box experience”: Has Catalinbread’s Dirty Little Secret Deluxe just redefined amp-like overdrive pedals?
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Dirty Little Secret ain’t so little anymore as Catalinbread launches what it calls “the ultimate Marshall Plexi emulation”, complete with onboard boost and preamp tube sim

The Catalinbread Carbide takes a fully cranked Boss HM-2 and makes its chainsaw tones (moderately) more usable
By Matt Parker published
This vicious new metal distortion takes the HM-2 build in the opposite direction of EHX’s recent Hell Melter

The worlds of reverb and tremolo come crashing together in Catalinbread's new Tremol8 pedal
By Jackson Maxwell published
The Portland, Oregon firm's answer to the Strymon Flint and Fender Tre-Verb was inspired by the Fender Showman, but also features a wide variety of other tremolo/'verb effects, with plenty of tweakability, to boot
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