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Catalinbread Formula No. 5

13 Jun 202625 Nov 2015 by chords

The Formula No. 5 is a 5E3 Tweed Deluxe amp emulating overdrive pedal. It’s essentially 2 JFET stages (very similar to the AMZ Booster) with the Tweed Deluxe tone and volume (in this case gain) controls in between. A master volume pot is added at the output for more control. Here’s a great demo of … Read more

Tokai Metal Driver

13 Jun 202623 Nov 2015 by chords

The Tokai Metal Driver was built in Japan in the early-mid 80s and is very similar to the Pearl OD-5 of the same era. In some ways it’s basically a Tube Screamer, with the same input/output buffers, but the tone control is rather unique and the sound is apparently very different from your standard TS-9. … Read more