Catalinbread
CATALINBREAD: Silver Kiss MK2
Aion FX just dropped a few circuit traces today (about eight in total) and this one from Catalinbread caught my eye. It’s a standard soft-clipping overdrive up front, not unlike a Tube Screamer, followed by a three-stage active equaliser, which is something I happen to like on a pedal. As it happens, the EQ section … Read more
Catalinbread Silver Kiss Mk.2
Schematic is avaiable HERE. Note that the 4,7uF caps is per original Silver Kiss spec. The 1uF film caps is suggested by Aion Fx as replacements.
Catalinbread Heliotrope
This circuit is quite infamous for being quite noisy with oscillator bleedthrough just as for most Bit Crushers. ,And to make things worse, this one has a built in fuzz circuit that amplifies noise even more. Hopefully, the separate ground connections for the fuzz/output buffer section and the the oscillator will tame some noise.
Catalinbread Karma Suture
Catalinbread has released two versions of the Karma Suture, one germanium and one silicon based. Both at their hearts are simply a modified Harmonic Percolator. I think Catalinbread described it best on their site: A bubbling cauldron of even-order harmonics! The only change I made in the layout from the schematic is I added a … Read more