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Catalinbread Effects Pedal, Valcoder

Catalinbread Effects Pedal, Valcoder
Catalinbread Effects Pedal, Valcoder
Product Code: Catalinbread Effects Pedal, Valcoder
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Price: $169.99
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Brand New In Box, Authorized Dealer, Made in USA,  Full Factory Warranty!
 
Mid 60’s Valco-style dirty garage tremolo.
 
A tremolo with driveability
 
The Valco company of Chicago made amplifiers under their own name in addition to building amps for other companies such as Supro®, National, and Gretsch, to name a few. Most of these were lower powered amps with a great sounding natural tube breakup and many models also featured a unique sounding tube driven tremolo. It had a hypnotic throb and was also capable of hard, choppy tremolo. Combined with the breakup overdriven characteristics of the amplifier, it created a percussive, rhythmic pulse that is very inspiring to play. The Catalinbread Valcoder was designed to recreate the tube tremolo as well as the amplifier breakup of these vintage amplifiers. Separate input and output controls allow you to get anything from a clean tremolo sound all the way up to a gritty tube like breakup driving the tremolo circuit.
 
The Valcoder features an all discrete analog LFO circuit inspired by 60’s Valco tube tremolo. With the depth and rate knobs set lower, the result is a smooth, bubbling modulation that is especially seductive when playing complex chords in the neck position. Crank the DEPTH and RATE knobs for haunting pulses to hard rhythmic chop that adds tension and attitude particularly to distorted passages.
 
The Valcoder has a dynamic and responsive audio path (JFET based) that adds a bit of vintage tube amp style grit and slight compression to your sound. Increasing the INPUT knob pushes the front side of the circuit harder adding grit and a bit of compression. You can set the OUTPUT knob to adjust for unity or boosted signal.
 
The Valcoder can also function as a great edge-of-breakup booster. With the DEPTH knob all the way down, and the INPUT & OUTPUT knobs turned all the way up, you will get a warm, gritty 10dB boost. This can be used as an always-on element to fill out your sound or can be used when you need it to help leads punch through the mix.
 
The Valcoder can be run from 9 -18 volts. 9 volts will allow for more compression and grit with a softer pick attack. 18 volts will increase the output level and will be slightly cleaner and less compressed with a more immediate pick attack. The tremolo effect will be stronger and choppier at 18 volts.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         
 
Attention Argentina Buyers:
 
We now No Longer using " USPS First Class Mail Intl / First Class Package Intl Service " for mail shipments into Argentina, becasue this does not provide a tracking #, and due to the country's slow process custom hold and also the un-reliable mail system. ( we had many lost parcels ).
 
We can ship via " USPS Priority Mail International by weight ", shipping cost starts at $29.95 for the first pound, $3 each additional pound.
 
We can also ship via " USPS Priority Mail Express International " starts at $44.95 for the first pound, $5 each additional pound.
 
so Please not to choose that service option when  " check-out " to make payment.
 
 
Here are a few facts about International Shipments. (Please Read)
All parcels Always are mailed within 24 hours of your payment received.
US postal never hold any outgoing international parcels on the US side; they are out of the USA country at most within one week.
“USPS First Class Mail Intl / First Class Package Intl Service “ Does Not provide a tracking #. We drop off all the pre-printed label parcels into a very large USPS collection bin every day, some parcels get scan within the USA, some don’t, my guess is that it is all depend on who postal worker is working that day.
“ USPS priority mail international by weight “mostly get scanned within the USA.  Once they arrive aboard into the import country’s custom/postal, again it may or may not get scan at this point, it is in the hand of your country’s services, USPS does not have any control over the parcel from this point beyond.
I had been keep asking by international buyers the same questions “ where is my parcel ? how come takes this long time ? “.  Almost 100% of the delay on deliveries is due to the import country’s slow custom hold process.  Sadly, we, as the shipper can’t do anything about to speed it up; this delay is very common for South American countries (such as Brazil, Chile, Peru, etc) and the former Eastern European countries (such as Russia, Hungary, Poland, and the former Soviet independent states/countries). The usual delivery time to these countries is about 30 days to 60 days; few parcels even took 90 days.  So if you Can’t wait, please choose other options like the Priority Mail Service or Express Mail Service (these may be faster, but still Not a time guarantee service).
***** Please Be Very Aware these above facts when “buy it now”.*****
 
At last, foreign import duties, taxes and charges are Not Included in the item price or shipping cost.  It is the Buyer’s Responsibility.