The SuperCharged Overdrive Obliges All Your Extreme Dirt Desires
The SuperCharged Overdrive pedal from Catalinbread is back for a limited time, and it’s available only at Sweetwater in the USA! The latest reissue revives a pedal that inspired what Catalinbread now bills as the “Foundation Overdrive” series of effects, and there’s truth in advertising with the SuperCharged Overdrive pedal. The circuit boasts no fewer than eight MOSFET transistors that supply eight cylinders worth of hard-working gain with chewy harmonic thrusts that cut through busy rhythm sections or lift lead lines to the front of your mix. This pedal’s Contour feature truly puts gas in the tank of tone by providing secondary gain that adds saturated tube-like feedback by feeding the output signal back into the circuit for a second round of MOSFET enhancement. Contour also teases out more midrange power the higher you turn the knob. And since players’ tastes, gear, and rigs have changed and evolved since the SuperCharged Overdrive first appeared, the reissue was upgraded with an active tilt-style EQ control that boosts highs while cutting lows or vice versa. Highly interactive parameters make this one of the most approachable yet flavorful high-gain drive pedals we’ve seen in recent years, and you can even power it at 18 volts for heightened headroom that’s great for gigs. When your rig needs an unforgettable kick, no overdrive pushes amps and guitars quite like the SuperCharged Overdrive pedal.
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Pop the hood and peek at the SuperCharged OD’s engine
- Volume: A generous level control with plenty of headroom for pushing your amp (or attenuating high-gain tones to practice-friendly volumes).
- Gain: Settings range from modest grit to outright distortion that unleashes more harmonics and thicker bass as you raise the level.
- Contour: The designers describe this Contour knob as the feature that takes SuperCharged Overdrive Reissue players from “looking at a one-trick pony” to “looking at an entire stable” of potential dirt sounds. The Contour parameter adds gain and chewiness to the breakup, like what you might expect from a warmer-sounding distortion pedal. Raising the Contour parameter introduces a tougher midrange, and settings are highly interactive with Gain, which gives you the freedom to sear tone on the outside while sealing those juicy harmonics within, or you can thicken up the drive’s sustain, articulation, and harmonics for memorable sounds, even at low-gain settings.
- Tilt EQ: This active, 1-knob equalizer rounds out the pedal’s range with new tones compared to previous iterations. You can tailor the output to different styles with enough bandwidth for bass-boosted chug, brittle lo-fi crackle, and a plethora of sounds in between. Clockwise EQ adjustments boost treble and cut bass, while counter-clockwise turns trim treble and boost bass. The EQ center point is dialed in at 800Hz, and there’s a notch at noon to let you know when the EQ sits at neutral.
Catalinbread: gear that makes you want to play
The self-avowed gearheads at Catalinbread focus on making musical devices they want to use — “gear that gets us excited and inspires us to play.” The result of that authentic focus and unwavering integrity is the type of innovation that isn’t market-driven; Catalinbread creates its own market for products players love, whether overdrive, delay/reverb, fuzz/distortion, or tremolo/modulation pedals (many of which are available at Sweetwater). The SuperCharged Overdrive Reissue is a powerful example of Catalinbread’s commitment to exciting, inspiring innovation.
Catalinbread SuperCharged Overdrive Reissue Pedal Features:
- A dynamic flexible overdrive reissue of a fan-favorite pedal from Catalinbread’s early days
- Powered with 8 MOSFET transistors tuned to put tons of gain at your disposal
- Tone-shaping tools let you shape gain with everything from neutral thickness to punishing chug or even brittle lo-fi
- Tilt-style EQ with a detented 800Hz center point supplies smooth, accurate tone shaping with the musical presence of an active circuit
- Contour control tweaks midrange and pumps live circuit feedback back into the circuit for extra gain and saturation
- Compatible with 9V or 18V center-negative DC power supplies
