SFT

Catalinbread SFT: Ampeg SVT Emulator

Controls

Image from Motor City Guitar

• Knob 1 - "Treble": Turn the knob increasingly clockwise to increase the treble frequencies.
• Knob 2 - "Bass": Turning the knob clockwise increases the bass frequencies.
• Knob 3 - "Volume": Turning the knob clockwise increases the volume output on the pedal.
• Knob 4 - "Gain": Turning the knob clockwise increases the amount of distortion available and output by the pedal.
• Footswitch 1 - "On/Off": This toggles the pedal between being engaged (on), and bypassed (off).

Not unlike the Catalinbread Manx Loaghtan fuzz, the SFT implements a Baxandall tone stack.

NOTE

Newer versions of the SFT have a push-button switch to toggle between "Stones" (up/disengaged) and "Stoner" (pressed down/engaged). Our version is older and does not have this button. According to the latest Catalinbread SFT Owner's Manual, that push button is a gain boost, pushing the button down increases the gain. Our experience is that the gain knob on our earlier model has a wider sweep, enabling all the gain that is available on the latest pedal. We suspect Catalinbread retooled the SFT with a gain potentiometer designed to offer a tighter range, and that range is shifted to "gainier" when the button is depressed.

Bypass:True

The Catalinbread SFT is True Bypass.

General Information

http://www.catalinbread.com/index.php?category=all&product=sft

Pedal Manual

http://www.catalinbread.com/manuals/SFTmanual.pdf

Phase Inversion

???

Schematic

Schematic obtained from this discussion board thread: http://musikding.rocks/wbb/index.php/Thread/16285-Catalinbread-SFT/?pageNo=12

Entry on the thread claims that the original schematic was downloaded from: http://juansolo.demon.co.uk/stompage/schematics/Catalinbread/SFT_Schematic.png

Unaware of any copyright claims. Juansolo website no longer exists.

Artists

We are currently unaware of any artists actively using the pedal now, or who have in the past.

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