Just when I thought Andy’s demos were the best, he pulls Avon out of his bag of tricks....he’s beyond the best, and his taste in music is impeccable! And no pick!!! You’re a god, my man!!!
craigdamage hey man, I'm trying to put together a pedalboard for bass and guitar, right now I'm looking for a OD and a Fuzz (specially for the synth stuff), I'm between this and the formula 5f6 for my OD, have any opinions?
Still one of my favorite demos of an overdrive pedal. I use Fuzz predominantly for leads and most rhythm playing, but this demo shows so many uses for this pedal.
I have the original one and its my most used pedal. Absolutely amazing pedal and plays well with other pedals. I have a Simble Overdrive in front of it to tighten up the cranked bass on the SFT. Fattest sound Ive had
So much fun playing Can’t You Hear Me Knocking through this gem. Best pedal for early 70s Stones I’ve ever had. Simply amazing as are all Catalinbread pedals 💎
This is my favorite pedal demo introduction still after all these years. It’s like a fight between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde coming to its inevitable conclusion.
+Stephen Lafferty Wow that is such sad news. Nicholas seemed like such a good person. I truly appreciate all he did in his life to deliver such great mechanisms of music
Great demo as usual. Thanks. Will you please do another with it on bass? My current favorite amp for bass is a late 70s V4 but it's a back breaker. If you could demo SFT into an Orange Terror Bass 500 and SP212 I would die but I'll settle for any common hybrid bass rig. KEEP IT UP!
Not quite Clean not quite dirty but retains that sparkle "TO BRING AUDIENCES TO THEIR KNEES" Jumping $h!t Balls the marketing department is full speed ahead.
Great intro as always. I had the original, but got rid of it because it was a little bit of a one trick pony, but it will NAIL those early QOTSA sounds.
this may be a dumb question, but say someone uses a pedal like this with a tube amp, is that person going to retain alot of that tube sound as opposed to just using the pedal with a solid state amp? Like if I wanted to use this pedal to more closely emulate an ampeg v-22 would i most likely have better results with a tube amp as the vt-22 was a tube amp? Id like to hear some feedback on this, thanks, rock on!
James Cassidy i am using this pedal with a tube amp (fender blues deluxe)...i keep the amp clean, so the pedal does all the "dirt" job...sounds a little diferent with a cranked amp wich i like more, you can still clearly hear the ampeg sag, but then is too loud for my needs...
I bought one of these for £140 and I still kick myself for it. It doesn't sound or play like an Ampeg, sounds very transistorish when you crank it up, and the worst thing about it other than the overblown price is the shitloads of RF it picks up from everything. When sat at idle, it sounds like a 1990's dial up modem trying to achieve a connection. It'll pick up EVERYTHING in the area. And before anyone says I have bad grounding issues (which I probably do), I'd have to point you to the rest of my equipment which includes more amplifiers than you'll ever see in one room and about £250 worth of pedals and NONE of it gives me a problem, only the SFT sounds like it's trying to pick up Radio Luxembourg on long wave. For the price, nowhere near good enough. when I've got a £20 tubescreamer clone sat at the side of it which has none of the isses this does. EHX Soul Food, same deal. No issues. Marshall Bluesbreaker original. No issues. Catalinbread SFT 2. Sounds like a radio station on downtime.
I have one, and I don't have any of the noise problems you complain of. If you return it to the company, they MIGHT repair it for free; it wouldn't hurt to ask them if they'd do it. As for it not sounding like an Ampeg--I don't know if it does or doesn't. It does provide a pleasing and not cliched overdrive/fuzz; I'm not sure the sound is quite worth the money but I've made worse purchases than this in my life.
I thought the latest DLS sounded transistorish or fake somehow. The tone was nice when the amp was cranked and the pedal was at lower gain but as soon as the gain got higher it just sounded digital somehow. I know its analog. I didn't hate it but it wasn't a Marshall in a box
Does anyone know if this new version of the pedal is the same as the previous one, if only the external appearance changes or if the sound is really different. It looks like the old version is no longer for sale.
Dickus Maximus I have a first gen, it has slightly woolier bass and more forward mids, it's similar in concept but as Howard from CB stated the new version is constructed differently. The stones/stoner version has both a wider clean range and way more gain (plus a more extreme bass response in higher EQ settings) than the older versions.
I purchased the SFT and it's ridiculously noisy. Even with all the control's at 12 o clock. It's to the point where it's unusable even with a good noise gate... what could be the problem?
Mike Honcho might be a bad power supply, as unisolated power supplies can do that. Or you could have just gotten a bad pedal, which can happen every so often. Talk to the company about it and they'll probably send you a replacement
Hi, I'm Andy from Proguutarshop, and this is the Catlinbread "sounds like every other overdrive pedal". Now I'll play better than you could ever hope to...
+Jared Burdick Not really though, no one models their overdrives after an Ampeg, you could make the critcism that every OD sounds the same but not on this video
+Pie IX no need to get bent out of shape, it's a joke. if you're a performing player (of any skill level), it's likely you don't have 100 drive/distortion pedals on your board. Just poking fun at the endless number of similar pedals on the market. Maybe a sense of humor pedal is something Catlinbread should work on. Sheesh...
+Jared Burdick Not a very funny joke in this context, if you commented this on a klone or tubescreamer clone video then sure, good joke, but nah you missed the mark on this one
