Catalinbread Galileo

Info from ProGuitarShop about Catalinbread’s original:

In January of 2012 I began speaking with Nicholas from Catalinbread about making us a dual overdrive pedal. I didn’t have anything specific in mind. I wanted to begin the discussion of putting two of his drive pedals in one box. After a couple of meetings and many cocktails we agreed that it would make a great deal of sense to put the CB30 and Naga Viper together in one box and go after a cranked AC30 with a treble booster sound. A sound made famous by many Vox users of the 60’s.  We then began to think a bit more of a specific sound that we were looking for and the Galileo was born. Scaramouche! Scaramouche! Will you do the Fandango?!

Magnifico! Plug into the new Catalinbread Galileo and your brain may see stars. Catalinbread has created a hotter upgrade to their already phenomenal CB30, added a dedicated, fine tuned treble boost, courtesy of their Naga Viper circuitry, and housed it all in a single majestic gold pedal decorated with the well-earned insignia of rock and roll royalty. The Galileo delivers the regal, operatic sound you would expect from a wall of AC30s with all of the controls you need to rule your own creative realm. In addition to controls for Volume, Bass and Treble, the Gain control gives you a broad sweep of that singularly expressive overdrive while the Top Boost control lets you dial in all of the high end definition that will take your breath away. Two footswitches give you the flexibility to operate without the high-end augmentation, or opt for true bypass of the whole pedal.


Update: Oscar Jr below let me know the circuits are independently switched which makes the description bizarre.  They are both apparently independent and the Naga is first in the chain from the input socket. 

Update 2: It has been suggested that the 100K resistor at the bottom right near Q3 should be replaced by a 51K which inproves the sound.  It may be worth experimenting here to see which you prefer.

Passive Bill of Materials:
Group          Name    Qty
Capacitors     100n     1
Capacitors     100n     1
Capacitors     100p     1
Capacitors     10n      1
Capacitors     10n      1
Capacitors     1n       1
Capacitors     1n       1
Capacitors     220n     1
Capacitors     22n      1
Capacitors     22n      1
Capacitors     22n      1
Capacitors     22u      1
Capacitors     2u2      1
Capacitors     2u2      1
Capacitors     330p     1
Capacitors     470p     1
Capacitors     470p     1
Capacitors     47p      1
Capacitors     47p      1
Capacitors     47u      1
Capacitors     47u      1
Capacitors     4n7      1
Resistors      100K     1
Resistors      100K     1
Resistors      100K     1
Resistors      12K      1
Resistors      1M       1
Resistors      1M       1
Resistors      1M       1
Resistors      1M       1
Resistors      1M       1
Resistors      220K     1
Resistors      2M2      1
Resistors      2M2      1
Resistors      390R     1
Resistors      390R     1
Resistors      470K     1
Resistors      470K     1
Resistors      470R     1
Resistors      47K      1
Resistors      4K7      1
Resistors      4K7      1
Resistors      4K7      1
Resistors      4K7      1
Resistors      56K      1
Resistors      68K      1
Resistors      8K2      1

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