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Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret Red Overdrive Pedal

Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret Red Overdrive Pedal

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Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret Red Overdrive Pedal

Overview

Dirty Little Secret Red is a finely-tuned and well-oiled (figuratively, of course) gain machine based on the original classic Dirty Little Secret MKIII. Featuring a more refined set of gain stages that cuts through the low-mids of the original and brings you an extended barrage of punch and clarity, the DLS Red calls shotgun in the truck that is your pedalboard’s dirt section. Catalinbread’s flagship DLS circuitry has been modified to give you more of everything you love about the original with a touch more blistering, amp-smashing gain across both modes, as well as a more hi-fi EQ section and a fully-balanced—yet still very much Marshall—tonal profile.

Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret Red Overdrive Pedal Features

Two distinct voicings: "Super Lead" and "Super Bass" switchable via an internal slider switch.
A full three-knob treble-middle-bass tone control complement that reproduces exactly the tone circuits of the Super Lead and Super Bass amps.

Inspiration:
The Dirty Little Secret (DLS) Red was designed to be the secret weapon in your tone arsenal. Want to get cranked amp tones at bedroom rocker levels? Playing gigs but have to use whatever amp is provided as the back-line? Like your clean amp sound but don't care for its overdrive channel? Love your fuzz pedal but it needs to be plugged into a cranked amp to sound good? Enter the Dirty Little Secret!

Designed to bring you the sound and response of a classic Marshall amplifier, the DLS Red is designed to be a "foundation" pedal—it is your "always on" pedal that forms the core of your guitar sound which you can enhance and embellish by adding boosters, fuzzes, filters, and other overdrives in front of it—just like you would in front of a real amp. And the reason you can leave it always-on is that you can get a great clean sound just by rolling your guitar's volume knob back! That's the way the old school Marshall players did things!

Controls:

Power Supply:
You can power your DLS with any quality power supply designed for use with effects pedals. The output should be a negative tip DC from 9 to 18 volts. If you want more volume, headroom, and percussive attack, try running an 18-volt power supply. A nine-volt power supply will have a slightly softer sound that saturates more easily.