Oct 6, 2018 | Guitar Pedals, Pedalboard
Caline makes a guitar pedal called the CP-14 English Man. There is an earlier version that was a lime green, and there is a newer version that looks like the British flag. This is a clone of the drive channel of the Carl Martin dual channel PlexiTone guitar pedal. The...
Sep 13, 2018 | FAQ, Guitar Pedals, Pedalboard
I had recently noticed an explosion of guitar pedal toppers on pedal boards recently. With the advent of social media and Facebook groups, many of us (53,000 as of last) subscribe to “Pedalboards of Doom. I suspect at first that group started out as a death...
Mar 23, 2018 | FAQ, Guitar Pedals, Pedalboard
Here is the much used, much talked about 1 Spot for pedalboard power. Many use the Godlyke PA-9B (which is basically the same). This is a simple wall plug (wall wart as they call it) that supposedly can power up to 20 pedals with its 1700ma of power. It covers nearly...
Mar 16, 2018 | FAQ, Guitar Pedals
How much are guitar pedals? How much do they cost? The answer is pretty simple – somewhere between $25 and $500 (for the most part). That’s a pretty wide range, so let me narrow it down. Most budget and clone pedals are under $100. Most mainstream pedals...
Mar 14, 2018 | Guitar Pedals
Let’s get right to it. The Boss Super Chorus is $109 and the Caline Super Chorus is $22. About the only additional thing the Boss version has are EQ and EQ level controls (and a stereo jack). If you want a great chorus pedal and don’t want to spend much...
Mar 12, 2018 | Guitar Pedals
Behold – the Caline CP-12 Pure Sky Overdrive, which is a clone of the Paul Cochrane Timmy pedal. In the last 5 years it has become one of the most sought after boutique pedals on the market. They are made one at a time by Paul Cochrane himself, and this is the...
Feb 28, 2018 | Guitar Pedals
The Caline Puffer Fuzz distortion pedal is a clone of the Dunlop Silicon fuzz face pedal. This is one of the first pedals they made about 8 years ago, model CP-11. The Dunlop version was a copy of the Jimi Hendrix Dallas Arbiter fuzz face (the round one). The main...
Feb 27, 2018 | DIY Guitar, Guitar accessories, Guitar Pedals
About the BK Butler Real Tube Overdrive guitar pedal The “Real Tube Overdrive” is a BK Butler guitar pedal manufactured by “Tube Works” back in the 70’s and 80’s. The image above shows my recently purchased Real Tube pedal case...
Jan 14, 2016 | FAQ, Guitar accessories, Guitar Pedals, Robben Ford, Stevie Ray Vaughan
How to Get or Build a Zendrive Clone pedal As long as I can remember I have wanted a Zendrive pedal. I don’t know why I never purchased one, it seems like guitars, amps, and other things have always taken precedence. For those of you that don’t know, the...
Aug 26, 2011 | Guitar Pedals
I’ve been buying expensive guitar effects pedals for years. Fulltone, Visual Sound, TC Electronics, Voodoo, Boss, DOD – and I’ve always steered away from cheap pedals (like Axion, Yamaha, Danelectro, etc.). So I’m surfing ebay earlier this year...