Catalinbread Formula ?5 Manual de usuario

USER’S GUIDE

INTRODUCTION

Congratulations! You’ve got yourself a greasy little tone machine there – keep a few wet naps handy,

you’re gonna need ‘em!

The Catalinbread Formula No. 5 is a tweed-era avored overdrive that takes its inspiration from the classic

1950s 5E3 architecture providing a smooth yet aggressive sound and a highly dynamic interaction

between player and pedal. Responsive to both picking attack and pickup type, the Formula No.5 like the

amps it is modeled after is at its heart a‘set and forget’type of aair – you set your maximum desired gain

level on the pedal with your guitar volumes full up then back them o for your lower gain or clean tones.

So with that in mind, let’s re it up!

QUICK START GUIDE

We suggest on rst play that you only have the Formula No. 5 plugged in between your guitar and amp – this

will give you the best opportunity to hear the pedal in its truest sense so you can suss what the pedal is giving

you back in terms of harmonic content and dynamic response and feel. Set your amplier up for a nice clean

sound or just on the verge of breakup – the Formula No.5 will take it from there.

CONTROLS

Volume controls overall output volume and is capable of overdriving the

input of your amplier for additional saturation. Having this much output

on tap to boost your amp can eectively give you the same type of ‘chan-

nel volume interaction’ found on the amps when you balance it with the

Gain control.

Tone a simple high pass lter arrangement like on the amps that

decreases in its eect near maximum Gain settings. Goes from smooth and

buttery to extra crispy at full up. Who wants fried chicken? I do!

Gain this control begins where a 5E3-style amp would be with its Volume

on about 3 or so and goes beyond what a typical 5E3 circuit would deliver

gain-wise. If you’ve ever played a real 5E3 you know that it doesn’t really

come alive until you open it up some – clean tones are in there, but you

have to get to them via the guitar’s volume controls. The Formula No.5 is

no dierent.

Humbuckers and higher output single coil pickups will overdrive the

Formula No.5 fairly easily, so if you are playing a guitar with these type

pickups go easy on the Gain control at rst unless you want to channel Neil

Young out of the gate.

Using the Volume and Tone controls to get you close to the base volume and EQ settings of your amp, start with

the Gain control at minimum and gradually bump it up after a few seconds of play - listen for the fat harmonics

that start to inject themselves into the decay of chords or double stops – nice, right? Keep going until you’ve

maxed out the Gain control – a softer, spongier attack or‘sag’is happening now. This is the eect that happens to

a real 5E3 when it’s dimed and the output transformer is begging for mercy. If you play slide or lap steel, you

should really dig this level of juicy saturation.

Okay, back that Gain control o to about 2:00 and let’s try cleaning up the pedal some using your guitar’s volume

control – roll it back to about 7 and listen for the pick attack to tighten up and the compression level to decrease

signicantly. The EQing will change from a prominent greasy midrange to a stringier, more dened bass attack

and a chimey treble response. Perfect for rhythm stu, yeah? Now let’s go for an even cleaner sound by rolling

that guitar volume back to about 4 or 5 – you should have a nice airy clean sound that still has a good lively edge

to it – neck humbuckers sound incredible at these settings. Grant Green tones live here – if you don’t know who

he is shame on you! lol

STACKING WITH OTHER PEDALS

You’ve already discovered that the Formula No.5 has plenty of gain all on its own, but for those who want more

(and let’s be honest - you know you do) there are a few combinations we can endorse that sound great with the

Formula No.5:

Treble Boosters: Running one of these into the Formula No.5 will add gain and focus the midrange even

more for soloing or can tighten up the attack of a neck humbucker at high gain settings. Our Naga Viper is a

perfect mate even if we do say so ourselves.

Compressors: These can sound fantastic in front of the Formula No.5 to add even more singing sustain and

soften the attack even further. Using a hard pick attack, power chords will swell like a balloon and get bigger

sounding as they decay. Rad!

Fuzzes: Certain fuzzes can add a unique character to the Formula No.5 - Tonebenders, Fuzz Faces, almost all of

the ‘60s style fuzzes work well boosting it like our Merkin Fuzz for example. Most Mu-based fuzzes have too

much low end to run in front of the Formula No.5, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t place those type fuzzes

AFTER the Formula No.5 and use it to boost the fuzz and add midrange.

Clean Boosts: Another nice option for bumping the gain and compression level of the Formula No.5 without

imparting a radically dierent EQ avor. Depending on how much boost is used you can get the Formula No.5 to

crunch up a bit, or crank it and completely obliterate it for ‘OMFG my amp is melting!’ tones. Save hundreds in

blown speakers! Lol

Placement of various eects in the signal chain isn’t an exact science, but it certainly pays to experiment as the

resulting combinations can have MAJOR sonic dierences. As far as the Formula No.5 is concerned, it should be

treated as though it were your‘preamp’ – so most boosts or fuzzes should be placed before it in the signal chain.

Modulation eects can go either side, though they will certainly have an impact on the feel and attack character-

istics if placed before it.

GOING DEEPER

If you’re curious, now would also be a great time to experiment with the power source. Try it on a battery rst – it

will have the greatest amount of looseness to the attack and compression to the sound at max gain. A 9vDC

power supply will give you a little more oomph and denition. At 18vDC the Formula No.5 takes on a much

bigger sound – more volume on tap, more headroom before clipping, a faster pick attack, and a wider EQ spread.

It’s still in the tweed family, but now it’s moved past the lower wattage 6V6 tones and headed more into the

cranked 6L6s with multiple speakers type sounds – more punch to the attack and a beeer sound overall with

less compression happening.

CONCLUSION

We hope you dig the Formula No.5 and enjoy spending some time exploring the variety of sounds that can

come from such a relatively simple circuit. The ultimate goal of a pedal like this is to reacquaint you with the

knobs on your guitar and the way you approach your strings so that you can forget about tap dancing and

concentrate on your instrument and music you’re creating. Have fun and thanks VERY much for your support!

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