Catalinbread Carbide offers Chainsaw Distortion tones
Boss HM-2 style chainsaw distortion with a tweaked EQ curve and twin volumes
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The Catalinbread Carbide Distortion is an HM-2 style chainsaw distortion effect that is aimed squarely at guitarists that want a heavy cutting dirt tone.
Catalinbread Carbide
The new Catalinbread Carbide Distortion boosts three key frequencies to get its signature chainsaw tone.
Plus, the Carbide splits the signal into two paths; one path heads to a clean boost specially configured to down-tuned instruments, and the other heads into the distortion circuit path.
Chainsaw Distortion · Source: Catalinbread
Two Volumes
Each of the two signal paths is given its own volume knob so that the player can blend them to taste.
These are labelled Wet and Dry, plus the last control is labelled Emphasis and is used to control the extreme low end, making it tight, whilst cutting any unwanted treble.
Wet & Dry Volumes · Source: Catalinbread
HM-2 EQ
A stock HM-2 circuit has two colour mix or EQ knobs labelled: L/Low and H/High.
The “L” knob controls a frequency boost at 87Hz, but the “H” knob actually controls two different bands simultaneously. These are at 958Hz and 1279Hz.
Catalinbread states that the Carbide keeps these three boosts intact, but the Emphasis control cuts frequencies around these bands, making them pop a little more.
They go on to say that like the “H” knob of the original HM-2, the Emphasis control adjusts two different filters simultaneously. One at 63Hz and a treble shelving filter. And that the Q of the low filter is just wide enough to butt up against the onboard bass boost while knocking out pesky sub-bass.
Therefore, it has been tuned more and should be exactly what fans of the Boss HM-2 will appreciate. Perfect for Swedish Death Metal chainsaw distortion tones. Each of the demo videos below is worth watching, as they demonstrate this perfectly.
The Carbide Distortion pedal is designed to accept a centre-negative DC power supply from 9 to 15 volts.
MSRP – USD 189.99
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2 responses to “Catalinbread Carbide offers Chainsaw Distortion tones”
Wow! Another HM2 clone the world so desperately needs! Who the hell cares about this pedal? Why is there not an article on the Fender Shields Blender instead of this?
Considering Belinda Butcher used an HM-2 throughout My Bloody Valentine, then maybe this non-limited edition pedal is a better bet anyway? https://www.gearnews.com/my-bloody-valentine-loveless-30-years-on-the-gear-and-how-to-glide/