CatalinbreadFormula 5F6 Tweed Bassman Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal

This is my favorite pedal. It’s always on. Super underrated. If you’re like me, you are constantly dreaming up ways to refine your tone and constantly dreaming up ways to spend money on things you probably don’t need!Well, if it’s a Les Paul/Marshall Jimmy Page, Mick Ronson (think Moonage Daydream) type sound you are after, this delivers. No further questing required. You are there. I would add as well, that I don’t have a place to crank a Marshall. With this, you don’t need to crank anything and you don’t even need a Marshall either. I can get the most incredible tone in my bedroom at low volume with this thing. It’s endless pleasure. Combines incredible with fuzz. Plays well with a tube screamer too.Cock your wah pedal to play the whole lotta love solo and blast off into space!This pedal will melt your face off!

Of course I want to like this pedal....but I returned it. Also, these reviews are very subjective...it may not be for me, but I could see the guitarist in Clutch using it. Heres the thing, there are some interesting sounds - but this pedal is almost a fuzz. It suffers from what I call “sounding small”...it is very compressed and although it has some of what you might call a “tweed” tone, it has a fuzz timbre on the attack of the note. Good marketing and i see where the designer was headed and what they were trying to achieve...they achieved a few good maybe useabel tones, but it’s not there in my opinion...too fuzzy and small sounding.

I was on the hunt for a Marshall amplifier to complement / counter my 5f6-a Bassman, to have both American and British tones covered. Through research and determination, I found reviews of this pedal. I was very hesitant to rely upon a pedal to recreate the feel and tone of a real tube amplifier, since there are so many variables that are needed to achieve that sound. I watched several videos, read several reviews, and then I decided that I would not buy an amp, and instead turn my Bassman into a Marshall by using this pedal.I need to first mention some specifics about my particular setup, as it relates to the circuitry: the DLS' Super Bass (SB) setting just so happens to very closely relate to the 5f6-a Fender circuit, since the early Marshalls were based on this circuit, down to the very component values found in each circuit. Running this pedal through a Bassman allows all of the lows (and highs) through, and so the SB setting sounds like the Marshall equivalent of a Bassman...which is what the first Marshalls were, up through the Super Lead, with only a few changes to the tone stack (and aluminum chassis and different transformers). Being that there are so many similarities between the pedal and amp, there is a very natural sound to this pedal, and it really nails that early Marshall / JMP / JTM feel and tone. If you have a Tweed Bassman (even the reissues), you should give this pedal a go.Using a fuzz pedal in front of this pedal in SB mode is truly a phenomenal experience (Jimi Hendrix "Experience" is more like it): my Fuzz Face JH (Mini) is a silicon-based unit, and it sounds horrible with every other pedal and amplifier and combination thereof that I have tested it with. I was getting ready to sell this pedal and save up for a nice germanium pedal of some sort, but with the DLS, I found it's home. I wanted that touch sensitivity and Hendrix growl out of my fuzz pedal, and I get it with ONLY the DLS pedal. This Fuzz Face silicon really works as advertised when in SB mode. I could not believe it, and I am glad that I did not waste my money on the FF mini. My '92 Les Paul Classic (with after market PAF pickups) can achieve nice Cream sounds if you know what you're doing, but this mode sounds best with a Stratocaster ('56 Custom Shop). With a Strat, you really do get the classic sounds you would expect when playing through a Marshall.The Super Lead mode is all that I expected it to be, and it really nails that Marshall 1987 through JCM 800 sound. As advertised, fuzz pedals are not all that friendly in this mode (too much bass is cut in the tone stack), but that does not mean you should not test out your fuzz box. Expect that your Strat or Les Paul will sound wonderful, as though you are playing through...a Marshall.I half expected that this pedal would be all that it was advertised to be, since the creator of the pedals created his own YouTube demos of his product line, in a way that exemplifies the everyday players' rigs. He made a Princeton Reverb sound like an old Marshall, playing Jimi's "Catfish" song with toneful precision.If you own a Fender or Fender-style amp, or if you are wondering how to mod that older Fender "Normal channel" to Marshall/Plexi specs, leave it be, and get the Dirty Little Secret Mk III instead. You will not regret plugging the DLS into your Fender amp.

Wow, I love this FU@KING PEDAL!!! The sound is everything that Catalinbread advertises and demonstrates it to be!!! I had looked for a Jext telez Rang lord and I couldn't find one. I came across this in the YouTube video line up in regards to the Range Lord and after giving the video a look, I was impressed. I was even more impressed when I got this, unboxed it and plugged it in for a spin. I'm after a little bit of a Jay Mascis sound in my fuzz mix, and this pedal does not disappoint. I'm seriously looking at buying the Katzingkoening next!! Great pedal, great company!!

Full disclosure is that I have been playing bass in bands for 35 years, but I've only been playing electric guitar for a year (a pandemic buy), so I know a few things and I know a lot of nothing. But I do know that I like this OD. It's so supposed to give you Jimmy Page's early 70's sound, and I think it succeeds. I also hear a lot of my other favorite Brits in it (Brian May, Andy Summers, Robert Fripp). It adds volume and grit without becoming overbearing. It is also very responsive to the guitar's volume and tone settings--you get completely different sounds with the slightest of adjustments.It's not quite as versatile as the Plumes (which is half the price) or the Fault v2 (which is more expensive, but super versatile), but the RAH has the flavor I like best of the three (all of which I own and play with regularly for different purposes).

This is a very noisy pedal. In the pedal’s defense, it is a high output distortion/fuzzy effect. That being said, I use a Big Muff on a regular basis and it is not noisy at all compared to the Sabbra Cadabra. Be warned that this effect is very dependent on what amp you are using. Playing through a Marshall DSL40c and a 1965 Univox I cannot get a Sabbath tone out of the pedal. For the price this pedal cost, I expected much more. I returned this item and will not be trying much else from Catalinbread.

Sounds great to me. Best distortion pedal I've personally ever used. Probably would kill with a tube amp. For reference, tested with the following signal chain: Reverend Bob Balch signature > Sabbra Caddabra > Katana Artist mk. 1