Catalinbread Starcrash 70 Series Valcoder Dirty Tremelo Pedal
Mid '60s Valco-style dirty garage tremolo. A tremolo with driveability.
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SKU: SC70-VALCODER
Introducing the StarCrash '70s Collection, where we invite you to bring your vintage tonal dreams into the present from the time when the majority of rock ‘n’ roll’s most iconic and sought-after tones were forged, the 1970s. Several of our most iconic ‘70s inspired boxes have been given a paint job that wouldn’t look out of place on the side of a snazzy panel van. We’ve also introduced two new pedals to round out this line! The Starcrash is a ‘70s style fuzz circuit that’s been carefully tuned for maximum sustain with a handful of extras, while the Sidearm is our spin on the classic “green” overdrive of yore with some powerful and intuitive EQ options. Whichever type of rock you associate with the ‘70s, the StarCrash '70s Collection has you covered no matter what.
Overview
The Valco company of Chicago made amplifiers under their own name, in addition to building amps for other companies such as Supro®, National, and Gretsch, among others. Most of these were lower-powered amps with a great-sounding natural tube breakup, and many models also featured a unique-sounding tube-driven tremolo. It had a hypnotic throb and was also capable of hard, choppy tremolo. Combined with the breakup overdriven characteristics of the amplifier, it created a percussive, rhythmic pulse that is very inspiring to play. The Catalinbread Valcoder was designed to recreate the tube tremolo as well as the amplifier breakup of these vintage amplifiers. Separate input and output controls allow you to get anything from a clean tremolo sound all the way up to a gritty tube-like breakup driving the tremolo circuit.
Power Supply
The Valcoder accepts any good quality filtered and regulated 9-18V DC power supply with a center-negative plug. It can also be run off a 9V battery—the current draw is very low (only 15mA), so a battery can last over 40 hours as long as the input is unplugged when not in use. If you have the means, experiment with the different powering methods and pay attention to how they affect the sound and feel. There are certainly differences between them, and it’s cool to be able to tailor the pedal’s dynamic response for your given set-up in this way!
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