Welcome to your new Epoch Pre by Catalinbread! We’ve worked hard to get this into your hands so we hope you’ll enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed making it.
Page 1: ...Welcome to your new Epoch Pre by Catalinbread We ve worked hard to get this into your hands so we hope you ll enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed making it...
Page 2: ...unction we made a filtering circuit that mimics the loading to the mixer output circuit The buffer also runs off of 22v and is a discrete silicon transistor based buffer Honing down on this circuit wa...
Page 3: ...f all the current draws for each pedal in the chain BALANCE This is essentially the volume control but much more nuanced than that It is the wet dry mixer circuit from the Echoplex Belle Deluxe but of...
Page 4: ...y where the Boost knob is set The Boost function is part of the preamp if you have the pedal bypassed the Boost does nothing This boost function was voiced to make the signal bigger louder and wider T...
Page 5: ...nd creamy The Early Later button on the Epoch Pre reconfigures the preamp to both of those specs in exacting detail down to the type of input output bypass capacitors BUFFER OFF BUFFER ON EARLY LATER...
Page 6: ...ou re running a long cable from the pedalboard to the amp your signal can become too dull and lifeless with just the preamp Activating the buffer gives your pedalboard a low impedance high current fee...
