Catalinbread Clean Little Secret Low-Gain Overdrive Guitar Effect Pedal

Manufacturer's Description

Our take on the low-gain Marshall sound is not to be taken lightly! Our Clean Little Secret is a low-gain platform that gets gritty in a hurry thanks to a refined approach to this foundational classic, with many of the original’s shortcomings addressed and improved upon.

We’ve conquered the high-gain Marshall amp-in-a-box some time ago, and now our Clean Little Secret takes the classic low-gain Marshall BB formula and gives it a much needed refinement. We’ve beefed up everything from the classic amp enhancer, from the tone stack to the output stage and more, giving you just the right amount of kick. A completely overhauled tone section gives you individual control over treble and bass bands as opposed to a global tone knob, and we’ve added some more bells and whistles to push the unity volume level up quite a bit. Our designer’s favorite op-amp keeps the action whistle-clean until you push the gain, giving you delicious edge-of-breakup tones at the end of the dial, but subdued always-on enhancement tones at any other position. Some secrets are better left unkept!

Controls

TREBLE: Counter-clockwise: less. Clockwise: more.

MASTER: Down is down, up is up.

BASS: Turning it down gives you less, turning up gives you more.

PRE-AMP: You will get varying degrees of low-gain sparkle until you turn it past 1-2 o’clock or so, then the overdrive comes out and gets hairier from there. The gain tops out at what one might call low-to-medium, so don’t be afraid to really juice it up.

Power supply

The Clean Little Secret accepts a standard center-negative 9-18V DC power supply. The current draw is extremely low, any power supply that fits the above specifications will perform admirably. Don’t use any other type of power supply (AC, higher voltage, center-positive) or you run the risk of ruining your new pedal and quite possibly rendering it useless. There’s nothing clean about that! Check your supply!