Catalinbread Soft Focus Reverb
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 Reverb compact pedal 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 a genuine FX500. The difference is that a fairly generic fixed-time digital delay is present on the Soft Focus patch.
- SKU Catalinbread CATSOF
- For electric guitar
- Compact effect pedal
- Made in USA
- 2022
- Controls : see pictures
- True Bypass
- Powered only with optional 9-18VDC supply (barrel 2.1mm plug, negative center, 100 ma current draw)
- Battery operation is not supported
- New black and white artwork from gallery artist, Tomo77
- 60 x 110 x 50 mm
- 180 g
- Manual : https://urlz.fr/jiWE
- Euroguitar Reference : 103713