Catalinbread launches the Sinkhole modulated reverb pedal

December 6, 2023 · 3 sources

Catalinbread has released the Sinkhole, a reverb pedal that combines a reverb with a four-voice chorus, the Portland, Oregon company announced on December 6, 2023¹. Both MusicRadar and Guitar World reported the launch on December 7²³.

The pedal pairs what Catalinbread calls a harmonically rich "hole" reverb with "an impossibly deep four-voice chorus"²³. According to Catalinbread, the chorus section has a feedback control and a high-cut filter, and the effect ranges from comb filtering to pseudo-phaser to "haunting auto-filtering"¹. Guitar World reports that the reverb and chorus each have two parameters of their own³.

The controls are Volume, Mix, Mod, Verb and Feedback². Volume sets the gain of the onboard preamp, which lets the pedal work as a clean boost²³. Mix blends wet and dry, and is fully wet at the clockwise limit². Mod sets the chorus rate, from barely moving at its lowest setting to dramatic²³. Verb sets the amount of reverb; Guitar World describes it as "a second gain control and a mids control all in one," feeding a variable amount of signal back into the circuit³. Feedback adjusts both the depth of the chorus and the amount of feedback in the circuit²³.

The Sinkhole ships with buffered bypass, so trails fade out when the pedal is switched off, and an internal switch selects true bypass²¹. It runs on a negative-tip power supply from 9V to 18V DC drawing at least 100mA, with more preamp headroom at 18V²¹.

The Sinkhole is available now. MusicRadar gives the price as $199², and Guitar World gives $199³. Gearnews lists $199.00 alongside prices in pounds and euros¹.