Want To Buy: Catalinbread Talisman (Sorted)

Wazmeister

Anyone got one they fancy moving on ?

Cheers.

Wazmeister

Anyone ?

jfraze5150

Just seen one go up on eBay. I’d fully recommend the pedal btw. It’s awesome. 

Wazmeister

jfraze5150 said:

Just seen one go up on eBay. I’d fully recommend the pedal btw. It’s awesome. 

Thanks mate - Ive contacted the eBay seller

Wazmeister

Cash-a-waiting

Zoolooter

My desert island pedal, best plate reverb money can buy. Good luck finding one.

Telejester

I got mine from hotrox 2 weeks ago and it kicks ass big time.

Wazmeister

To be fair, I have owned one before, and indeed was a very early adopter of them...

They have shot up in price too, and with all the 'end of times' goings on at Catalinbread, I wonder where their future lies...

JohnPerry

Wazmeister said:

To be fair, I have owned one before, and indeed was a very early adopter of them...

They have shot up in price too, and with all the 'end of times' goings on at Catalinbread, I wonder where their future lies...

What’s up at Catalinbread then Waz?

Wazmeister

Sorted.

Wazmeister

JohnPerry said:

Wazmeister said:

To be fair, I have owned one before, and indeed was a very early adopter of them...

They have shot up in price too, and with all the 'end of times' goings on at Catalinbread, I wonder where their future lies...

What’s up at Catalinbread then Waz?

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/whats-happened-to-catalinbread.1882155/

thread 709

You won’t hear the official story because the crew that built and designed those pedals are under legal threat to not say anything. After Nick passed away, his mother took control of the company, and while bless her heart and so sorry for her loss, what they did to the crew was unbelievable and downright stupid. People were forced to quit after they didn’t want to continue working under the new management (who, as you can see, doesn’t know how to run the company), and not only were they forced to quit, but are under threat to not talk about what’s going on, or build pedals anymore. I bet Howard, the true mastermind of this company got so badly screwed. Where is he? No one works there anymore. Catalinbread is dead, and these Facebook posts saying “hey guys, we’re ok,” is false hope. They screwed over and threatened their crew, I’m not surprised none of us are getting our questions answered or our pedals fixed. And if you want proof, I just saw that they went to Namm this year, and it’s clear that all their talent is gone. It’s pretty sad to see this happen to one of my favorite pedal companies. I use their echorec and talisman on my board, and I’m holding on to them, since I doubt they’ll produce anything like that again. 
Sounds like they’re probably in a huge legal mess and will run out of money in no time. They raised their prices, but their quality is in the toilet. No old crew, no Catalinbread. That was Nick’s legacy... sad. 

Lebarque

That's a terrible shame if the company is going belly up. They've made some absolutely cracking pedals. I too love my Talisman.

Beexter

Glad you're sorted Waz. It's a fantastic pedal. I tried a few reverbs before the Talisman and i love it. I found shimmer got annoying quite quickly so much prefer the straight up sounds of the Talisman. Shame that all doesn't seem well with Catalinbread though.

Telejester

ive found one of the knockout features of the talisman is how amazing it sounds with an overdriven tone, much better imo than how spring verb works used that way.

Wazmeister

Telejester said:

ive found one of the knockout features of the talisman is how amazing it sounds with an overdriven tone, much better imo than how spring verb works used that way.

YES, this is the secret of the Talisman - it doesn't seem to splash or become unruly with ODs

Majorscale

Shame to hear about the antics at Catalinbread, they did (do?) produce some cracking pedals. Love the Belle Epoch, but wasn't at all smitten with the Talisman when I owned one, not a patch on my Mr Black Supermoon - yes a very different verb I know, but then my ears are different too!