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Catalinbread Soft Focus Guitar Effect

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Catalinbread Soft Focus Guitar Effect

The Soft Focus patch on the Yamaha FX500 was widely used in the ‘90s by early shoegaze bands, most notably Slowdive on Souvlaki. With its roots in that patch, the Catalinbread Soft Focus is intended to be an instant shoegaze button, while addressing the most glaring issues of the original unit: no mix control, a sub-par preamp, and a ghastly...
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Guitar Effect Catalinbread Soft Focus Guitar Effect

Catalinbread Soft Focus Guitar Effect

208 €
249 €
- 16 %

Product code: CATSOF | ID: 1054466

Catalinbread Soft Focus Guitar Effect

The Soft Focus patch on the Yamaha FX500 was widely used in the ‘90s by early shoegaze bands, most notably Slowdive on Souvlaki. With its roots in that patch, the Catalinbread Soft Focus is intended to be an instant shoegaze button, while addressing the most glaring issues of the original unit: no mix control, a sub-par preamp, and a ghastly tone-sucking bypass signal. At its heart, the Soft Focus is a heavily modified plate reverb with adjustable time, which is subsequently split into three paths. One path contains a multi-voiced chorus modulator, another features a well-appointed octave-up mixed in with the reverb, and the third path leaves the reverb untouched. The Mod knob controls the rate of the chorus on path one, and the Symphony knob controls the level of the octave on path two. All controls are "coupled" to the tone of the reverb to give users an expansive playing field of sounds to discover and fine tune. Soft Focus is not an exact recreation but was exhaustively compared with own FX500; the difference is that a fairly generic fixed-time digital delay is present on the Soft Focus patch. They found that leaving this feature intact ate into the circuit’s memory just a little too much for such little payoff, so they leave that addition to you and your favorite delay.

True Bypass

True Bypass: Yes

It has a true bypass function, which ensures that when the effects are turned off, the signal passes directly through the unit without influence or degradation.

Controls

Controls

  • Verb
  • Mod
  • Symph
  • Mix
  • Volume

Suitability

Тype

Features

True Bypass

Yes

Tuner

No

Controls

MIDI Interface

No

Number of Buttons

1

Properties

Colour

Rackmountable

No

Inputs and Outputs

Inputs

Outputs

USB

No

Package

Package Contents

Power supply

Battery Operation

No

Power Supply

Accessory

UK/EU Power supply included

No

Country

Made in

USA