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!!!
+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
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.
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?
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.
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 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!
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...
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.
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
The first few seconds are just a Stones-style riff to prime the rest of the clip which is by QOTSA - Avon. The Stones mode is all about that Ya Ya's tone but you might find some classic Taylor-esque lead tones in the Stoner mode. Try the gain lowered and turn the bass and treble below noon to accentuate mids, this is what a Baxandall tone circuit is good at.
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
I feel like a kid on Christmas when Andy plays QOTSA while reviewing a pedal. Excellent playing and taste in music , mate :) Keep up the good work.
James Lockheed same tho
He even smiles when he goes into the Avon riff. QotSA for life.
He was playing qotsa specifically here because this pedal is modded after that Josh Homme ampeg VT40 circuit.
And the rolling stones etc. He usually plays bands or riffs that the pedals and gear are made after
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!!!
Got the original specifically for late 60's early 70's Keef.Love it.
"Bank accounts HATE him!" -all of us watching Andy's pedal videos & buying everything
Yup. I just saw his Stone Deaf PDF-1X demo which brought me here and now I want both. Goddamit.
RIP Nicholas Harris, Catalinbread Effects CEO:
www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/03/37-year-old_portland_man_trave.html
+Stephen Lafferty just saw that headline....what a shame.
+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
Andy, we all love you as much as we love QOTSA. Thank You!
Man, Catalinbread really can do no wrong. Sounds great!
Avon is such a great song.
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'm a full time bassist but only just last year starting playing electric guitar for fun. I got this pedal and it works so well for bass and guitar.
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?
Tiago Ducatti bro go for this one, far better for bass and if you like the tones heard here on 6 string guitar you can’t be disappointed!
From a bland riff dropkicked straight into f*ckin' QOTSA. Andy, we appreciate you. 🙌
Andy's voice brings me to my knees.
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
+Krister Kjørholt ever gotten a fat sound from cranking an amps master at least 3/4ths of the way up the knob tho?
+Psyfonify Well yeah, and then I kick this in front of it
Krister Kjørholt oh cool, thanks!
AVON!
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 💎
Couldn't agree more! Thanks for watching!
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.
The problem is: Each pedal in Andy's hands sounds fabulous....
Andy's foot*
Joseph Valdivia So simple, yet so funny.
I keep buying pedals because of him and then I arrange them into my board and then realize I'm not him and I cut myself and cry.
😂 I feel the same way. I'm revisiting this demo to hear if it was as awesome as I remember.
Love the Avon
caught me off gaurd at the beginning there haha!
Thanks to my girlfriend i got it today on xmas day. Been on for 3 hrs straight... Awesome pedal, very very sensitive and great tone in both settings
Let's QOTSA it up in here
I have an ampeg from the 70s that my dad had in high school and I think I need this pedal
This is the only pedal I’ll ever need, cannot wait to own one
Everytime Andy plays qotsa I buy a new pedal.
I got the chills when he played Avon....
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.
nice playing as always!!!
It was hard to enjoy this since hearing the news about Nicholas, but Andy's playing helped quite a bit.
Thank you for the info, much appreciated
excellent QOTSA song, Andy you have taste!!!
STREET FIGHTING MAAAAAAN
Another great demo , Andy thank you.
And now the new bass demo...
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!
Avon by QOTSA. Great demo too by the way.
thanks for QOTSA!)
0:27 Andy smiles *-*
This is an AWESOME pedal
awesome analog sounding tone
+Edad Martin it's not analog sounding, it's just analog.
avon nice choice
Ahhh the Wipers sound. Greg Sage would be proud
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...
thanks for the feedback!
0:21, Andy, what did you just do?
+T- Hawk He cranked the volume knob
+Joshplaysinstruments Ha. Right, I was more speaking to how he merged that bluesy riff bridged it right into QOTSA. Clever
+T- Hawk Keep skating Mr Hawk.
+Joshplaysinstruments Am I being trolled here? Geeze I hope not
+T- Hawk Nah man you're cool. Take it easy.
What song is that at 5:47? QOTSA? So good! Thx!
Anyone know the song beginning in 5:50? P. please.... ;)
What a transition....
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.
BoognishBockwinkle what did u want it to besides sound great? Wash your car and do your taxes?
What
I d like to have the 3: DLS, RAH and SFT
Does anyone know the 3rd song that starts at 4:25? Or is it just a wicked sounding riff he made up?
I think it’s called Golden Years.
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
The riff at 50’ in sounds like She got a Gun by Drunk Injuns.... would love to know if it is or something else?
I love your guys vidoes!!!
what is that first song andys doing? and will this cover the m ick taylor lead stuff like on get your ya yas out etc? that little bit fuzzy tone etc
The first few seconds are just a Stones-style riff to prime the rest of the clip which is by QOTSA - Avon. The Stones mode is all about that Ya Ya's tone but you might find some classic Taylor-esque lead tones in the Stoner mode. Try the gain lowered and turn the bass and treble below noon to accentuate mids, this is what a Baxandall tone circuit is good at.
What’s the track he’s playing at the beginning?
silvertongues2 Avon by Queens of the Stone Age
06:58 oh my
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.
from Catalinbread's website "Same insides but with new artwork!"
@3:40 that’s the stuff
Rolling stone song name, pls
Street Fighting Man
Does it have speaker sim built in or needs to go in front of amps?
V Ve is this a serious question? If it is: no, this does not have a speaker sim built in. It‘s a simple stomp box
Ghost pick or am I high
name The last song?
Is the original just the "stones" setting?
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.
What amp does Andy use here?
toefes I'm pretty sure it's a Deluxe Reverb Reissue. That's what he's always used in the past for all demos.
Thx dude! :)
3rd song ?
reminds me of Pigtronix polysaturator
Question is: what ‘s the amp linked to this pedal? why don’t you show off this basic info?
No one knows is making a huge comeback.
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
I dont have noise problem with this pedal...it's powered by cioks dc10....
Mike Honcho I also don't have noise problems with mine.
Sounds great,much like Posion Noises "the narc".
What QOTSA song is that??
Avon
Holy shit balls this pedal sounds good!
Avon!
Hi. Can this pedal recreate also the sound of Jason Newsted of Metallica ? Thanks
this one's dope.!
I string em up, I cut em down
Published a day before the owners death.. Weird
I just remembered, now I’m sad 😔
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...
whoa did I just hear Andy say something??
+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
+Jared Burdick Not at all and put your hearing aid back in your head Burdick
+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
klon infront of the sft will do wonders(:
dude rips
Andy is a good bloke! But he can only work with what he's got, but Catalinbread doesn't provide a high standard to do much of anything with.