Catalinbread launches the Tribute Parametric Overdrive pedal

April 13, 2022 · 4 sources

Catalinbread launched the Tribute Parametric Overdrive, an overdrive pedal with a one-band parametric EQ, on April 13, 2022¹. Guitar.com reported the release on April 14².

The pedal has four knobs. Volume sets output level and Drive sets gain¹. Freq selects a frequency between 70Hz and 1.4kHz, and Tone cuts or boosts that frequency by 12dB³. The Tone knob has a center detent; at noon the frequency is flat, which removes the EQ from the circuit³. Guitar.com describes the drive as offering a pure clean boost, with the back end paying homage to one of Catalinbread's oldest designs, the VariOboost². An internal charge pump raises headroom to +18V from a standard 9V input²⁴.

Guitar World described uses including an upper-mids cocked-wah sound and an out-of-phase Peter Green tone¹. Gearnews said the pedal can imitate a fixed wah or an out-of-phase tone, but noted there is no way to control frequency with an external expression pedal and no adjustable filter quality or sweep volume⁴.

Catalinbread's statement on the design, as carried by Guitar.com:

The price differs between the two reports: Guitar World gives $179¹, while Guitar.com gives $179.99². Both describe the pedal as available now¹².