New Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret MKIII Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal
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From Catalinbread:
Classic
plexi to early 70s Marshall Super Lead and Super Bass sound and
response.
Marshall
amps helped supercharge the performance, and shape the sound of rock
and roll. When the house lights dimmed, all you could see through the
hazy darkness was the array of red pilot lights shining from a
backline wall of Marshall stacks. It was the ultimate prelude to the
impending rock. In the absence of your own personal wall of Marshalls
and the necessary road crew required to lug them around, the Dirty
Little Secret (DLS) is the perfect secret weapon in your tone
arsenal. This is your “always on” pedal, designed to be the
"foundation" of your pedalboard, transforming any amplifier
into those raging British stacks. It forms the core of your guitar
sound which you can enhance and embellish by adding boosters, fuzzes,
filters, and other overdrives in front of it - just like you would in
front of a real amp. And the reason you can leave it always on is
that you can get a great clean sound just by rolling back your
guitar's volume knob! That's the way the old school Marshall players
did things!
Super
Bass- The "Super Bass" mode gives you the tone and gain
structure of a Marshall Super Bass (which is very similar to a JTM45,
JTM50/100, or very early plexi). This mode was voiced to really hone
in on that elusive in-between "not quite clean, not quite dirty"
response that old tube amps were so good at getting. And it was
specifically voiced to make fuzz pedals sound great (especially
two-transistor based fuzzes like the fuzz face). Plug a Strat into a
Fuzz Face with the DLS in SB mode and you'll see what we mean! It's
voice is deeper bass, and an emphasis on the lower midrange band (in
contrast to the Super Lead mode's upper midrange emphasis) and sounds
especially great with Fender style guitars.
Tone
stack -The DLS is two pedals in one. When you switch from SL to SB
mode it completely reconfigures the tone stack and key first gain
stage parameters to give authentic Super Lead or Super Bass type
response. The SL/SB mode switch doesn't just add a bit more bass to
make it a "super BASS". The treble-middle-bass tone control
complement exactly reproduce the tone stack circuits of the Super
Lead and the Super Bass amps. So when you switch from SL to SB mode,
the tone circuit gets reconfigured to the Super Bass circuit.
Mode
Switch - The Super Lead and Super Bass are two remarkably different
amps, and so the DLS is essentially two pedals in one….not a two
channel pedal. When you switch between the two modes and explore the
differences in the way the pedal reacts, you’ll see what we mean.
You will hear the difference in the way the tone controls work, the
way the gain character feels, and the way the overall frequency
response sounds.
It's
a dirt box, right? How hard could it be? Plug it in and turn the
knobs and rock your guitar. Explore the three tone knobs, play with
different gain settings via the Pre-Amp control. But plug it in by
itself first. Get familiar with it on its own before integrating it
in with your pedalboard. Your new Dirty Little Secret ships in "Super
Lead" mode. So, most likely, that's the mode you'll hear when
you first plug in out of the box. After you've had a good session
rocking out with your new Dirty Little Secret, come back here and
read on to get more insight and tips on how to get the most out of
your new DLS.