Catalinbread Soft Focus Deluxe

Catalinbread Soft Focus Deluxe is shoegaze pedal consisting of a reverb and distortion and based on a Yamaha FX500 with 6 different programs.

This pedal installs the missing delay function from the original FX500 patch, giving you exacting control over every parameter across 6 different programs. Dip your toes into a vast array of shoegaze textures and soundscapes with an integrated footswitchable distortion circuit, giving you the option to run it in series with or in parallel with the Soft Focus patch. Also added is a multi-function jack capable of expression control or tap tempo. Your shoes will never look the same again.

The Mode switch has 6 different programs:
1. Soft Focus: Standard patch from original unit.
2. Long Reverb Tails: With increased decay time to infinite.
3. Deep Modulation Warble: Adds an additional voice to the modulation, extending into pitch-bending.
4. Shimmer Soft Focus: Juiced reverb decay to modulation, and added shimmer.
5. Pitch Delay with Strong Shimmer: Focuses on pitch-shifting and adds an octave up to the delay repeats.
6. Expression Pedal Input Control: Standard Soft Focus patch with expression for input Volume (note: Time and DLY controls are swapped).

You control the programs with the knobs. The controls for Mod, Verb, Dly and Time depend on the selected mode. The Mix knob blends between wet and dry signals. The Dst Lvl knob sets the op-amp driven high-gain distortion with fixed gain and volume. The Parallel / Series switch sets the order of the distortion and reverb effects. In Parallel position, dry becomes a high-gain distortion. In Series position, distortion occurs before the Soft Focus for massive distorted reverb and modulation.

The pedal is powered by a standard 9 volts power supply (not included).

Catalinbread Soft Focus Deluxe demo video