CATALINBREAD: Silver Kiss MK2

Aion FX just dropped a few circuit traces today (about eight in total) and this one from Catalinbread caught my eye.   It's a standard soft-clipping overdrive up front, not unlike a Tube Screamer, followed by a three-stage active equaliser, which is something I happen to like on a pedal.

As it happens, the EQ section is quite similar to the Pete Cornish CC-1 which it pre-dates by a fair number of years.  I also quite like the CC-1.

Link to tracing journal, including schematic.

CATALINBREAD SILVER KISS MK2  -  VERO LAYOUT

CATALINBREAD: Karma Suture, Silicon Version

Silicon version this time, as it was pretty similar to the hybrid silicon / germanium version.

Link to schematic

Link to tracing journal on Aion FX

CATALINBREAD KARMA SUTURE, SILICON VERSION - VERO LAYOUT

VIDEO DEMO

CATALINBREAD: Karma Suture, Germanium Version

 A nice Harmonic Percolator variation from Catalinbread.  They've kept the bones of the original, and have added an input capacitor blend, as well as a pot to dial in the diodes on the output.

Link to schematic

Link to tracing journal on Aion FX - and think about buying one from Aion 

CATALINBREAD KARMA SUTURE, GERMANIUM VERSION - VERO LAYOUT

GERMANIUM VERSION - VIDEO DEMO

The Catalinbread Merkin Fuzz is their take on the classic Mosrite Fuzzrite, but with a few changes in values and a boost section at the end.  

Now I know a lot of guitar pedals have some odd names, but a Merkin Fuzz?  Really???   Google it....  

CATALINBREAD MERKIN FUZZ - POINT-TO-POINT LAYOUT

CATALINBREAD: Manx Loaghtan

After the Thorpy Fallout Cloud, I thought I might do another bax Big Muff.  

The Catalinbread Manx Loaghtan pre-dates Thorpy's by quite a few years.  The same basic idea, take a Big Muff and swap out the single tone control for a baxandall tone stack.

CATALINBREAD MANX LOAGHTAN - VERO LAYOUT

EQ CURVES