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Catalinbread - Tribute Low-gain OD / VariOboost

The Tribute is an all-analog circuit that combines an extremely expressive high-headroom drive engine with a powerful and flexible tone control.

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Tribute Low-gain OD / VariOboost

The Tribute is an all-analog circuit that combines an extremely expressive high-headroom drive engine with a powerful and flexible tone control. The back end of the Tribute pays homage to one of our oldest designs, the VariOboost. This circuit gives you a supercharged one-band parametric EQ in lieu of a tone control for some serious studio-esque tone sculpting power.

Playing rhythm? Dial in a low-mids grunt and boost that band for some fat chords. Playing leads? Flip that thing and inject some sparkle into your sound. Want to fake a cocked wah pedal to nail your cover of “Money for Nothing”? Want to simulate some Peter Green-esque out-of-phase pickups? Want your single-coils to sound like humbuckers? What about the other way around? The Tribute can do all that and more.

The core of the Tribute is an exacting buffer followed by a drive circuit that is governed by a dual-gang potentiometer. This means that the Drive knob affects two parameters at once: clean blend and overdrive gain. When Drive is down, you get your pristinely buffered clean signal with a gentle treble filter. When it’s up, maximum gain is achieved with no clean signal present. Anywhere in between gives you a carefully balanced clean-drive combo.

CONTROLS

TONE: After dialing in the Freq[uency], use this control to boost or cut the selected frequency by 12dB. This control is equipped with a center-detent potentiometer; just click it to noon and the frequency is flat; this means that nothing is boosted or cut regardless of Freq position. Clicking the Tone knob to noon effectively removes the VariOboost component.

VOL: You like it loud? Good thing! The Volume control gives you plenty of the good stuff.

FREQ: This control is part of the #original VariOboost circuit, and Freq and Tone work in tandem. Freq selects a frequency between 70Hz and 1.4KHz, which is then cut or boosted by the Tone control. See diagram on the next page if this#makes no sense right now.

DRIVE: The core of the Tribute is an exacting buffer followed by a drive circuit that is governed by a dual-gang potentiometer. Wait, what? All this means is that turning the Drive knob affects two parameters at once instead of just one. In the Tribute, those two controls are clean blend and overdrive gain. When Drive#is rolled all the way down, you get your pristinely buffered clean signal with a gentle treble filter. When it’s all the way up, maximum gain is achieved with no clean signal present. Anywhere in between gives you a carefully balanced clean-drive combo that lets your tone breathe at all positions.

POWER:
The Tribute ONLY accepts a 9V center-negative DC power supply capable of supplying at least 50mA of current (over is fine). Plugging in anything other than this (center-positive, AC, higher voltage) will damage the pedal, perhaps irreparably. And if that happens, you are guaranteed to have a bad time. Check your supply and make sure it says all the right stuff. Plugging in the wrong supply will void the warranty and possibly let the magic smoke out. Neither are desirable. Powersupply not included.

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