Catalinbread Dreamcoat preamp effectpedaal

I wanted a slightly wilder lead sound; like most guitarists I have a few overdrive pedals that are all trying to obtain the impossible I guess... we hear a particular tone plus gain and then seek it out. I wanted a pedal that gave my Strat a more seventies condensed sound - it doesn't help that; I use a fairly clean high headroom approach, my amp is the. Fendery/vox end of the equation and the sound I was seeking started with a fairly middy overload into a Marshally head from a HB or p90 stylee guitar. Having watched a review of this pedal on YT it seemed that this might get close. And to be fair it is a wild pedal.. I use another gain pedal after it with 3 tone controls to give me on the floor tweaks (I guess akin to the treble boost it can pair with - but I'm a cheapscate and it's fine) but I mostly use it by itself as a kick up the jacksie solo tool.. I think you could pair this with a wah and a nice trem/vibe and happily do all of the groundhogs repertoire In One hit with a very small footprint. It's quite a beast - and running the clean signal back in on the blend makes for degree of refinement, the overdrive component is very musical old school, if your looking for the UK type of tone that inspired 1977 guitar music onwards look no further- covers Woodstock to 1990s Reading happily: think Mr H, Blackmore, Hillage Garry Green then on into Pistols and Damned territory with Ronson in the back pocket... so it's a good tool if your using single coils into a lowish gain amp.. very helpful