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Portland-based boutique effects manufacturer known for the Dirty Little Secret and Belle Epoch.
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An enhanced take on the classic low-gain Marshall amplifier design, the Clean Little Secret features an overhauled tone stack with individual treble and bass controls replacing the original single tone knob. It delivers clean to edge-of-breakup tones with a refined op-amp output stage.
$179.99
Classic plexi to early 70s Marshall Super Lead and Super Bass sound and response. Designed as an always-on foundation pedal that transforms any amplifier into raging British Marshall stack tones.
$179.99
The Dirty Little Secret Deluxe is the ultimate Marshall Plexi emulation and fully-customizable amp-in-a-box experience, featuring a complete amp circuit including preamp, phase inverter, power amp simulation, and output transformer. It adds a built-in footswitchable boost circuit, Super Lead/Super Bass mode toggle, externalized Presence knob, Tightness control, and a dedicated Line Out jack for direct recording.
$299.99
The Formula 51 is an amp-in-a-box pedal inspired by the Fender Tweed Champ 5F1 amplifier, faithfully recreating its preamp, discrete power amp simulator, and output transformer. A Sag control lets you dial in transformer saturation and blown-out character, while the Tone control spans Tweed to Blackface voicings via a mid-scoop modification. It runs at 9V or 18V, with 18V unlocking greater headroom and more expressive Sag response.
$179.99
The Formula 55 reproduces, in exact detail, the preamp section of the classic Fender Tweed 5E3 Deluxe using an all-discrete JFET-based signal path. Volume and Tone controls mirror the original 5E3 circuitry for authentic vintage Tweed amp response, while a Hi-Lo switch selects between clean vintage and higher-gain hot-rodded operation.
$189.99
The Formula 5F6 is a Foundation Overdrive pedal that recreates the iconic tweed Bassman-style amplifier from the late 1950s, featuring the character of 2-6L6 output tubes into 4x10" speakers. It adds vintage tweed Bassman response to any clean amp, delivering sparkly cleans, touch-sensitive breakup, and thick overdrive from a single pedal. A hidden Mode Switch toggles between Stock Bassman voicing and a Secret Lead mode with increased gain and a brighter tonal character.
$179.99
The Formula No. 5 Reissue emulates reedy, touch-sensitive 1950s tones through tube-simulation circuitry. All controls are interactive, with Tone tied directly to Gain to emphasize certain frequencies across multiple sweet spots. The pedal delivers a healthy dose of gain that responds dynamically to your guitar's volume control, offering everything from light tube sag to clean tweed tones.
$159.99
The Galileo recreates the regal and soaring tones of a Rangemaster Treble-Booster into a cranked Vox AC30, designed to emulate Brian May's iconic signal chain. Often described as 'Queen in a box,' it places the treble booster character and AC30 amp response in a single compact pedal. Roll back your guitar's volume for clean tones, or open it up for the aggressive leads and rhythm tones that defined Brian May's sound.
$169.99
The Little Secret is an ultra-compact Marshall Plexi preamp emulator that distills the core sound of the Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret. It features two mu-amp gain stages delivering British-style classic rock tones in the smallest possible package, with tube-like compression response and responsive dynamics.
$139.99
A limited-edition collaboration between Maxon and Catalinbread engineer Nicholas Kula, the OD808-40C applies the 'ODin808' modification to the classic Maxon OD808 circuit. The mod delivers a creamy, articulate overdrive with enhanced gain and output, a flattened mid-hump, and amp-like response that pushes the 808 into distortion territory. Limited to 400 individually numbered units, each with a signed certificate of authenticity.
$199.99
The Misnomer is part of Catalinbread's Cabinet Series, based on the Systech Overdrive, featuring hard clipping mixed with blistering op-amp gain and a resonant band-pass filter disguised as an EQ control. It preserves the original circuit while adding a clean blend and flexible filter routing that can be applied to the full mix or just the main circuit.
$169.99
The RAH is a guitar effects pedal inspired by Jimmy Page's performance at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1970, capturing the broad tonal palette and giant dynamic range of his Gibson Les Paul through Hiwatt and Marshall amplification. Handmade in Portland, Oregon.
$199.99
The SFT is an Ampeg-inspired foundation overdrive pedal that bridges the tone of the Rolling Stones' 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out' era and the Desert Sound (Stoner rock) era. It features gain stages without cathode capacitors and Baxandall tone controls drawn from Ampeg's hi-fi design heritage.
$189.99
The SideArm Overdrive is a fresh take on the classic '79 green overdrive, featuring a Mids control at 720Hz and a Tone knob centered at 1kHz that lets you tailor the drive sound to complement the rest of your rig. Limited Batch 1 production run of 50 units.
$139.99
The Silver Kiss is a three-in-one effects pedal offering clean boost, medium-gain overdrive, and a powerful three-band active EQ. Its op-amp drive engine uses gentle clipping to bring out harmonics, and dialing back the gain removes crunch entirely for a transparent boost. Setting each EQ band to noon removes it from the circuit for full flexibility.
$169.99
The SuperCharged Overdrive Legacy Edition is a revival of Catalinbread's MOSFET-based overdrive featuring eight stacked MOSFET devices for bottom-heavy crunch. The updated circuit adds a tilt equalizer with an 800Hz centerpoint and a Contour control that feeds the output signal back into the circuit for variable saturation and midrange shaping.
$149.99
The WIIO is an amp-in-a-box overdrive pedal inspired by the tone of The Who on 'Live at Leeds' (1970), simulating Pete Townshend's custom Hiwatt CP103 amplifiers with a modified tone circuit. It features a wide-ranging Gain control, Baxandall-style EQ, and a tape echo preamp blend circuit that fattens the signal and adds extra volume.
$149.99
Other-worldly tone-generating fuzz tremolo that truly defies classification. A limited run of the now-retired Antichthon in limited edition gold, representing the final opportunity to own this quirky Catalinbread classic before indefinite discontinuation.
$179.99
The Fuzzrite is a classic silicon-based garage fuzz pedal with a storied history in rock music, famously used on recordings by The Ventures, Iron Butterfly, and The Black Keys. Catalinbread has brought the classic silicon circuit back and added a modern 9V power supply, delivering aggressive, saturated fuzz tones.
$159.99
The Fuzzrite Germanium faithfully recreates the rare 1966-1968 Mosrite germanium fuzz circuit, of which only around 250 originals were ever produced. Built with two NOS PNP germanium semiconductors, it captures the raw psychedelic tones beloved by players like Ron Asheton and Henry Vestine. A Modern/Vintage toggle switch adapts the circuit's output capacitors for compatibility with contemporary rigs while preserving the original's iconic character.
$179.99
The Fuzzrite Mini distills the exact circuit of the original 1960s Fuzzrite in a compact mini format, developed in collaboration with the estate of Semie Moseley, founder of Mosrite. The Depth control blends a second transistor gain stage, ranging from a clean fat tone at minimum to aggressive gated tones and pseudo ring-mod upper octave harmonics at maximum.
$129.99
The Giygas 2K is a highly modified fuzz engine in a slim two-knob format — the Muff for people that don't like Muffs. Unlike traditional dual-filter fuzz designs, the Giygas 2K sculpts its tone with respect to the surrounding circuitry, giving you volume-knob cleanup and a punchy, responsive feel. The Fuzz knob sweeps from a warm, slightly gritty boost all the way to a rich, rounded square-wave singing fuzz.
$129.99
The Katzenkönig combines the best elements of a Tone Bender MkII fuzz with a Rat distortion to create something that sings like a fuzz but is tight like a distortion. Three germanium transistors drive the front section derived from the Tone Bender MKII, with a Filter control providing tonal variations unavailable on the original. Compatible with both humbuckers and single coils, and works equally well with cranked or clean amplifiers.
$179.99
The Majestic Railway recreates the Tone Messer circuit from Grand Funk Railroad's Mark Farner's Musicraft Messenger guitar. Part of Catalinbread's Cabinet Series, it includes a pickup simulator and guitar-style volume and tone knobs placed before the actual fuzz circuit, along with an output boost for practical amplifier use.
$169.99
The Manx Loaghtan Fuzz (Reissue) is a reissue of a classic Big Muff-style fuzz pedal featuring a more powerful Baxandall-type EQ section in place of the original's single-knob dual filter. It offers chunky chords, woodwind-like sustain, and low-gain overdrive tones. The Sustain control includes a treble-retaining subcircuit to preserve high-frequency content at lower gain settings.
$169.99
The Merkin Fuzz is a reissue of one of Catalinbread's first fuzz pedals, blending design elements from classic American fuzz boxes including the Mosrite Fuzzrite and Jordan Bosstone. It features three gain stages with the first two governed by the Texture control, creating a wide array of vintage fuzz tones. The Texture knob acts as a mixer between gain stages with mild phase cancellation at the midpoint for distinctive vintage coloration.
$159.99
The Perseus DIO is a three-voice all-analog octave-down fuzz pedal that generates harmonically rich square waves and clean sub-octave tones. It features independent controls for one and two octaves down, each with a dedicated low-pass filter, plus a dry signal knob that produces light distortion capable of pushing an amplifier into overdrive. All three voices can be blended together for a wide range of bass-heavy and fuzz textures.
$184.99
The StarCrash Fuzz is a silicon-based fuzz pedal inspired by 1970s Fuzz Face designs, modernized with a Bias control that shapes texture from full and throaty to sputtery and velcro-esque, plus a Low-Cut filter for bass frequency shaping. The standard fuzz knob was omitted since most players maxed it out anyway.
$139.99
The CB Paint Reverb recreates patches from the classic Alesis Microverb, a late-1990s digital reverb unit celebrated for bringing studio-quality digital reverb to the masses. It features six of the Microverb's most memorable patches plus gate and reverse modes, with modern additions including a Mix control, adjustable low-pass filter, and an onset/pre-delay control.
$209.99
A gated reverb pedal that recreates the classic studio effect popularized in the 1980s, combining digital reverb with noise gate functionality. Features an overdrivable preamp, adjustable reverb lag time, and a full wet-dry blend control.
$199.99
The Filter Verb is a prototype reverb effects pedal years in the making, combining a fat resonant low-pass filter with a lush modulated chorus-verb. It features expression pedal control over filter cutoff frequency or chorus rate/depth, a momentary switch for room reverb activation, and an onboard preamp with adjustable saturation for shoegaze and performance-oriented tones.
$225
The Pads is a smeared reverb pedal inspired by the pad-like vocal effect on Tame Impala's 'One More Year.' It combines a long-decay reverb into a four-voice chorus tuned to soften different harmonic elements, followed by a square-wave tremolo with an adjustable duty cycle for rhythmic blips or intense stutter effects.
$199.99
The Sinkhole combines a harmonically-rich reverb with a deep four-voice chorus featuring feedback control and high-cut filtering. The reverb can achieve near-infinite sustain at extreme settings, evoking warm synthesizer pads reminiscent of vintage analog-digital hybrids. Includes a full wet-dry blend and warm preamp circuit.
$199.99
The Soft Focus Deluxe is an all-in-one shoegaze multi-effects pedal based on the legendary Yamaha FX500 patch 40, featuring six programs with reverb, modulation, delay, and pitch shifting. It includes a footswitchable op-amp distortion circuit that can run in series or parallel with the Soft Focus engine, and a multi-function TAP/EXP jack for expression control or tap tempo. The Deluxe adds back the delay line missing from the original model, delivering adjustable echo with pulsating reverb swells.
$359.99
The Soft Focus Reverb is a shoegaze-focused reverb pedal inspired by the Yamaha FX500's 'Soft Focus' patch widely used by '90s bands like Slowdive. It features a modified plate reverb split into three signal paths: one with chorus modulation, one with octave-up effects, and one with clean reverb.
$209.99
The Talisman Plate Reverb recreates the lush ambience of the giant mechanical plate reverbs used in 1970s studio recording, capturing the sound heard on iconic albums like Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. It adds dimension, thickness, and depth in an unobtrusive way that works across genres and styles. Handmade in Portland, Oregon.
$219.99
The Topanga is a spring reverb pedal inspired by the classic Fender 6G15 outboard spring reverb unit, delivering the big, wet, splashy reverb tones of 1960s surf guitar and Spaghetti Western soundtracks. Unlike studio rack reverbs, it runs in front of the amp so the reverb signal distorts for a more intense, complex sound. An added discrete preamp with a Volume knob provides clean boost capability beyond the classic Dwell and Tone controls.
$209.99
The Epoch Boost replicates the preamp circuit from the Maestro Echoplex EP-3 tape echo unit in a standalone pedal, featuring NOS Orange Drop capacitors, internal voltage boosted to 22V, and up to 20dB of crystal-clear boost. It sounds like your base tone sculpted to perfection, with a switchable hi-Z input buffer and an output mixer stage functioning as a frequency selector.
$159.99
The Epoch Boost Mini is Catalinbread's compact version of the Echoplex EP-3 preamp circuit, delivering crystal-clear tonal enhancement with the funky output filtering and supply voltage that gave the original tape unit its distinct character. Running at the original 22V operating voltage via internal charge pump, it provides high-headroom punch as an always-on preamp with an added boost control for extra gain and sparkle when needed.
$129.99
The Naga Viper MkII is a treble booster pedal based on the legendary Dallas Rangemaster circuit, updated with a new transistor and an Attenuate knob that controls input signal level before it hits the booster stage. It delivers classic treble-boosted tones into a cranked amp while giving modern players the flexibility to tame complex signal chains.
$184.99
The Sabbra Cadabra is a treble booster pedal inspired by Tony Iommi's iconic tone, combining a treble booster with Laney Supergroup amp characteristics. Designed to transform any guitar rig into a heavy, doom-laden sound at modern stage volumes without requiring extreme amplification. Handmade in Portland, Oregon.
$179.99
The Super Chili Picoso Legacy Series is a reimagining of Catalinbread's original debut effect — a clean boost and EQ pedal originally hand-made on a kitchen table and sold through Tone Factor. It retains the sparkle and clean gain of the original while adding an EQ control, a series-mode switch for additional overdrive, and circuit refinements that enhance dynamic range.
$149.99
Faithful sonic recreation of the EP-3 tape echo, inspired by the Maestro Echoplex EP-3 model. The Belle Epoch captures the preamp, self-oscillation character, wow and flutter, and authentic repeat decay of the original unit in a compact, maintenance-free pedal format.
$209.99
The Belle Epoch + is a compact tape echo simulator with full tap tempo capabilities, offering more headroom, a redesigned Mix control, improved buffered bypass, noise gating, and better impedance specs. It features three tape wear modes ranging from pristine to aged vintage tones.
$239.99
Exact EP-3 circuitry, from the 22 volt power rail, to the JFET preamp (later spec), to the mixer stage, to the high gain silicon transistor based record and playback amplifiers, to the feedback loop. All circuitry is faithfully reproduced and fine-tuned from the original EP-3 specifications.
$359.99
A modern stompbox recreation of the legendary Binson Echorec multi-head drum echo, famous for powering Pink Floyd's Pompeii performance. Features four playback head configurations with variable delay time from 40ms to 1000ms, far exceeding the original's 300ms limitation.
$239.99
Oil can delay units were manufactured by a company named Tel-Ray who later became better known as Morley. The Catalinbread ADINEKO pedal is an echo, reverb, vibrato pedal that faithfully models the sonic experience of these oil can units.
$209.99
A triple-tap delay with each tap running into its own carefully tuned filter circuit, followed by modulation and output summing. The Lo-Fi knob simultaneously increases the cutoff frequency of each filter and the amount of modulation, letting it function as a standard delay or create unique lo-fi textured effects. Based on recovered code from a prototype developed before the engineer joined Catalinbread, adapted for the current platform.
$199.99
The Mirror is an experimental effects pedal that combines a clean swelling echo running in parallel with a powerful modulated low-pass filter. It features four controls — Feedback, Mix, Rate, and Depth — allowing the filter to sweep through the echo signal for evolving, textural soundscapes. Released as a limited Proto Club offering.
$189.99
The Trident A-Range console dominated the UK recording scene in the late '60s to early '80s, due in part to just how good it made things sound. The heart of the beast consists of a discrete germanium-and-transformer-equipped preamp that can be adjusted to suit all tastes, from the tones of Lou Reed to the fuzzy freakouts of Frank Zappa.
$179.99
A pedalboard-friendly preamp inspired by the RCA BA-31 studio microphone preamp, featuring germanium and transformer components with a UREI-style discrete op-amp. Spans clean boost, overdrive, distortion, and fuzz tones with dynamic-sensitive, vintage-flavored character.
$179.99
The Epoch Bias expands upon the Epoch Boost with four controls — Preamp, Boost, Bias, and Filter — to faithfully replicate the preamp characteristics of the Maestro EP-3 solid-state Echoplex. The Bias knob simulates out-of-spec vintage components to shape gain and body, making it a versatile finishing touch anywhere in the signal chain.
$179.99
The Callisto MKII is a 100% analog chorus/flanger hybrid pedal featuring controls for Mix, Rate, Depth, and Feedback. Its feedback circuit blurs the line between chorus and flanger, producing everything from classic chorus tones to pitch vibrato and tape-like modulation effects.
$209.99
The Wake is an eight-voice chorus pedal with an additive chorus effect designed as an always-on tonal thickener, drawing inspiration from '80s and '90s digital rack choruses and dream pop aesthetics. It features a parallel clean octave-down circuit that operates independently from the chorus engine and can be mixed in for added depth.
$199.99
An external tap tempo mechanism designed primarily for the Belle Epoch Deluxe pedal, also compatible with other tap-tempo-equipped pedals (excluding Boss models and non-normally-open tap designs). Includes a Catalinbread-branded 6-inch 1/4" TRS patch cable and an LED indicator that follows tempo when used with the Deluxe.
$65
The SFX Tap is a tap tempo controller footswitch designed to expand the capabilities of the Catalinbread Soft Focus DLX pedal. It connects to the DLX's EXP/TAP jack via TRS cable, or to other pedals' tap tempo inputs via a standard TS cable. The device draws power from the Soft Focus DLX and requires no external power supply.
$65
The Bitters reimagines the Alesis Bitrman, offering controls for distortion, phaser, and four selectable sound processing modes. You can dial in everything from a lush chorus to a crushing barrage of noise, with a mix control to manage intensity, and it works with guitar, bass, synths, drum machines, and DAWs.
$209.99
A pulverizing distortion pedal that captures the mighty 'chainsaw sound' typically associated with a cranked HM-2. The Carbide splits your signal into two parallel paths — a powerful clean boost and a distortion circuit — each with independent volume controls for custom blending.
$189.99
The VariOboost Legacy Edition is a reissue of one of Catalinbread's oldest pedals, offering 12dB of boost or cut at a user-selectable frequency from 70Hz to 1.4kHz. A new Pre control adds a clipping circuit before the frequency boost, enabling everything from ultra-clean boosts to convincing overdrive tones. Together with the Post volume control, it covers a wide range from surgical EQ shaping to full-on amp-pushing gain.
$169.99
The Changeling is an envelope filter based on the classic Seamoon Funk Machine from the 1970s, keeping the original circuit while implementing refinements that dramatically improve usability across bass, guitar, and keyboards. A JFET input buffer circuit ensures clean signal handling, with optimized decay, attack, frequency response, and filter driver settings.
$169.99
The Zero Point Flanger is a limited-edition (100 units) through-zero flanger pedal that replicates authentic studio tape flanging as it was originally achieved. Unlike LFO-driven electronic flangers, it uses a momentary FLANGE switch to manually control upward and downward sweeps, mimicking the feel of a thumb on a tape reel.
$209.99
The X/F (Proto 6) is a unique modulation pedal that applies chorus to high frequencies and phaser to low frequencies simultaneously, with an adjustable crossover point between them. Both effects run in parallel and mix out of phase for a distinctive, frequency-dependent modulation character.
$199.99
The Many Worlds is an eight-stage phaser with eight selectable phase control parameters, six LFOs, and two envelope-dependent phase shift modes. It combines classic swirly and vibe-esque phaser tones with experimental sound design capabilities through intermodulating dual sine wave LFOs and autowah-style envelope-dependent phase shifting.
$199.99
The Tritone is a pitch echo pedal that combines a call-and-response octave-up effect with a blendable perfect fifth and onboard slapback echo, allowing players to craft bursts of three-note arpeggios for lead augmentation or rhythmic texture. The onboard slapback echo can be pushed into self-oscillation at higher feedback settings.
$149.99
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