Catalinbread Belle Epoch Demo

Preamp: Famous for making your guitar sound better even when the echoes are turned off. Quality of repeats: The Echoplex was not necessarily 'hi-fi'. As the echoes repeated, the signal got progressively degraded, losing low end and gaining a shiny, percussive top end with a bit of grit. Record level: There’s a control on the EP-3 that sets how hard the tape gets hit. Wow and flutter: The Belle Epoch’s modulation control was designed to simulate the daily mechanical irregularities inherent in original Echoplex units. Head drag: The original unit had a unique quality that when moving the delay time slider it took a moment to catch up to the adjustment, creating a doppler like effect.

EP-3 Circuitry: The Catalinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe Tape Echo Delay Pedal features an exact EP-3 circuitry Depth: It controls the modulation depth. The type of modulation depends on the setting of the Echo program Record Level: It controls the gain of the input signal hitting the record amplifier. Range from no signal all the way to heavily overdriving the transistor record amplifier Echo Volume: It controls wet/dry mix using the identical mixer circuit as the EP-3 for the same subtle phase and tone shifts phase and tone shift of the dry signal Echo Sustain: It controls the amount of delay feedback and is tuned to function just like the EP-3. Run-away echo starts around noon

Can get clean to crunch from your guitar’s volume knob so you can leave it on all night and use it as your base tone Can be stacked with other overdrive, boost, and fuzz pedals in front of it to enhance those, just like a real cranked up amp would Can give you control over your stage volume without compromising your dynamics or touch-sensitivity Can give you a much better base crunch tone then most overdrive channels on amps Utilizing 2-6L6 output tubes into 4-10" speakers, the Bassman quickly became the mainstay of stages everywhere during that era.

Flanger enveloped in a cavernous reverb Embedded a very gentle noise gate to stifle inherent guitar hiss and LFO clock noise The result is an extremely musical flanger that sounds like an extension of your own instrument Can also fuel up and take off when a little dirt of any kind is applied beforehand Runs from 9 to 18 volts using a standard DC center-negative power supply for pedals. Make sure you’re using a supply that provides at least 100mA

Designed for: The Catalinbread Valcoder is designed to recreate the tube tremolo as well as the amplifier breakup of the vintage amplifiers Weight: It weighs 0.48 lb Controls: You get separate input and output controls Sound: You can get anything from a clean tremolo sound up to a gritty tube-like breakup driving the tremolo circuit Power Source: It is powered by 9-18V DC power supply