Operations Manual
You asked for it, and here it is. Over the years we at Catalinbread have listened to customer comments on
our original Semaphore, and have combined everything into the ultimate tremolo pedal, the Semaphore
Tap Tempo Tremolo. This pedal combines a fantastic audio path, with a diverse tremolo that has a
bottomless feature set including 8 different waveforms, tap tempo and divide, and expression pedal capa-
bilities. The Semaphore suits both foot tappers and knob twiddlers in its control, making it the last
tremolo you’ll ever need.
At the heart of the Semaphore is a lush audio path that incorporates optically controlled JFET gain stages
to sculpt a gorgeous clean boost sound, that is present and alive without being peaky or harsh. We've
quadrupled the number of waveforms, everything is in there from classic square, triangle, and sine waves
to ramping sounds, and a mind-bending random shape. And in conjunction with the Shape contour,
which morphs the waveshape, numerous waveforms are waiting to be unlocked. The Semaphore sounds
fantastic, and the Tap Tempo section is engaging and easy to use. We've even included a control voltage
input to slave the Semaphore to another tap tempo device.
With the original Semaphore we realized that features without benefits are irrelevant, and benefits with-
out features lack credibility. The Semaphore Tap tremolo offers up everything you need in a tremolo, and
nothing you don't.
