Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret Foundation Overdrive Pedal
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Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret Foundation Overdrive Pedal
Response of a Classic Marshall Amplier: The Dirty Little Secret (DLS) is an overdrive pedal designed to bring you the sound and response of a classic Marshall amplier
Super Lead: The Super Lead mode gives you the great rock sound of a Marshall Super Lead amp with awesome harmonics, touch sensitivity, cab thumb, and kerrang. Higher gain than the Super Bass mode, Super Lead mode is perfect for use with humbucker-equipped guitars
Super Bass: The Super Bass mode gives you the tone and gain structure of a Marshall Super Bass (which is very similar to a JTM45, JTM50/100, or very early plexi). This mode was voiced to really hone in on that elusive in-between not quite clean, not quite dirty response that old tube amps were so good at getting
Treble Knob: The treble knob is important. Circuit-wise, it is actually a sort of 'mixer' control, mixing between the treble side and the middle/bass side. So if you want a less bassy sound, not only would you turn the Bass control down but you might also want to turn the Treble control up to 'mix' less of the middle/bass frequencies into the sound
Middle Knob: The Middle knob can also be thought of as a sort of 'gain' knob since most of the guitar's energy is in the middle frequencies. So if you want the grainiest sound possible, run the Middle knob high. But if you want a less grainy sound run it lower. This means you might also want to run the Treble and Bass knobs even lower to balance things out
The Dirty Little Secret gives you classic plexi to early 70s Marshall Super Lead and Super Bass sound and response. This is your ‘always on’ pedal, designed to be the foundation of your pedalboard, transforming any amp into those raging British stacks. It forms the core of your guitar sound which you can enhance and embellish by adding boosters, fuzzes, filters, and other overdrives in front of it - just like you would in front of a real amp. And the reason you can leave it always on is that you can get a great clean sound just by rolling back your guitar's volume knob!