Catalinbread SFT

Name: Catalinbread SFT
SKU: 853710004062
Availability: PreOrder

€ 215

Delivery time around 14 days

Catalinbread SFT is an AMPEG® voiced foundation overdrive that bridges the “Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out (Stones) and the Desert Sound (Stoner) eras.

Early on the AMPEG company was a Jazz purist company, completely overlooking (possibly looking down on) more popular genres like Country & Western and Rock that FENDER® and MARSHALL® openly embraced.

The SFT is based on typical circuit elements used in various classic Ampeg amps. At the heart is the tone control circuit used in almost every Ampeg – the “Baxandall” Treble and Bass shelving circuit. The cool thing about this Treble and Bass circuit is that it can cut and boost and also be relatively flat when the controls are set to noon.

The pedal uses gain stages in a very similar way to the big tube amps after which it is modeled but of course there are no tubes. There are no op-amps or clipping diode circuits either! Instead, the pedal uses JFETs in a configuration that is refined over the years to get the most authentic and dynamic tube amp response possible.

Catalinbread SFT demo video

Available on backorder

SKU: 853710004062 Categories: Amp in a Box, Overdrive

Description

Effect: Amp in a Box
Design: Analog
Mono/Stereo: Mono In, Mono Out
Knobs: Treble, Bass, Volume, Gain
Modes: –
Switches: –
Bypass Mode: True Bypass
Power Supply: 9 Volt or 18 Volt DC, center negative
Power Consumption: 5 mA or 10 mA
Works on Batteries: Yes
Type of Battery: 9 V
Format: Standard
Measurements (BxHxD / cm): 6 x 5 x 11
Made in: USA

Additional information

Weight	0,5 kg
Dimensions	11 × 6 × 5 cm
Category	Stock
Brand	Catalinbread
Sort	Guitar
Type	Amp in a Box, Overdrive
Routing	Mono In / Mono Out

Brand

Catalinbread

Back before most people heard the term “boutique” in reference to music gear, something was brewing in all corners of the globe, spurred by the Internet and the ability to share information freely. Guitar players began to look backwards to move forwards, combining time-tested approaches to pedalcraft with forward-thinking ideas. The Pacific Northwest’s answer to this boom was Catalinbread, born in 2003 on Nic Harris’s kitchen table. After producing the Super Chili Picoso, the first Catalinbread-branded pedal exclusively for ToneFactor, a Seattle-based guitar shop.

Adventurous designs

The sales of this fur-lined pedal went on to fund some more adventurous designs, and before long Catalinbread had outgrown both its business model and modest shop space, packing up the truck and ending up in Portland, Oregon. We’ve been here since 2006, now manufacturing over 30 unique pedals, built by human hands, one by one.