Product: Catalinbread Silver Kiss Trinity II American Edition
Price Paid: USD 189
Submitted
07/01/2009
at
11:01am
by
Jarrod
Ease of Use
:
9
Easy to get a great overdrive out of. Knobs: Gain/Treb/mid/Bass/Vol; Switch for Compression Soft/Open/Hard; Switch that controls which frequencies the mid knob controls Low-Mids/ High-Mids. I do not think it is possible to get a bad sound out of it. The open comp setting makes the pedal transparent.
Sound Quality
:
10
Works perfectly for boosting my Orange Tiny Terror into the next gain stage. I set the TT to 1/2 gain for a nice AC/DCish sound and kick in the SK for more gain on modern hard rock sounds. Since my amp does not have an Eq the 3 band Eq on this pedal makes it possible to scoop the mids and shape ur tone too.
Reliability
:
7
It seems solid. The Comp switch feels a little funky and there is not really a good battery compartment in the pedal. The battery basically just slides around in there. I just put a piece of foam weather striping in there to hold the battery against the inside of the pedal(like electro harmonix does). But I buy Catalinbread pedals with confidence because no one stands behind their products more. Plus they sound so good it makes up for everything else.
Customer Support
:
10
No one is better than Catalinbread. I have heard of people buying Catalinbread used and they break yrs later and Nick at Catalinbread will still fix them under warranty!!! They will reply to your emails within hrs and will be honest.
Overall Rating
:
10
Great sounding pedal, does exactly what I bought it for. There are somethings I would change about the build but it is all small things. Besides we do not by pedals for there layout we buy them for the sounds, and it sounds fantastic. I compared it to a Paul Cochran Timmy and Liked this one better. Plus No One has better service or stands behind there products more than Catalinbread. They are a joy to communicate with, unlike some boutique builders in CA named Fulltone.
Product: Catalinbread Silver Kiss Trinity II American Edition
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
02/23/2009
at
01:24pm
by
Cincinnati Slim
Ease of Use
:
10
This is the larger version of the Silver Kiss and it's still pretty small for five knobs, two switches and a footswitch. Blue-white LED is really bright. "Girly-script" labels are a little hard to read but easy to figure out with use.
Sound Quality
:
7
I tried this with a Tele w/noiseless pickups, Korean Gretsch w/GFS Filtertron style humbuckers, baritone w/custom stack coil Bill Lawrence p-up and a Godin "Acousticaster" w/L.R. Baggs piezio set-up.
Used a Fender Hot-Rod Deville on the clean channel. The three band EQ is really nice, I managed to get a nice sound with all four. Overdrive is pretty "amp-like" and nicely defined and musical. Some noise is present at high gain settings; about what is expected given the amount of boost.
Downsides ? Not really "transparent" at any setting. I noticed some low bass roll-off even w/ bass control boosted. Compressor is OK but seems to add mid-range and interacts w/gain control making adjustments necessary. Some of the YouTube videos show this pretty well.
Overall, this is a nice versatile O.D. pedal with good EQ. Not the greatest compressor however! Save your money and buy a Keeley !
Reliability
:
10
Seems solid. Lifetime warranty...what's not to like?
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Don't really know. I hear they are some nice folks at Catalinbread.
I put mine up on e-bay to pay for a Durham SexDrive I just bought !
Overall Rating
:
8
I'm doing a twangy/crunchy Alt-country roots thing right now. Silver Kiss is a nice unit but not quite what I was looking for. I would recommend folks try one if they are looking for a musical sounding O.D. pedal with flexible tone control. There are better compression effects around however
