Are Caline pedals legit?

[goroth]

I have had a bit of bad luck with cheaper pedals from Mooer and Hotone, but I get the impression the pedals from Caline more legit. Define legit as you please. I’m not sure if this is just me falling for their decent marketing though. Anyone got any Caline pedals?

[Dowi]

i'm quite sure that UglyCasanova could reply, but i don't know if he ever discovered that the secret weapon pedal he got for Secret Satan was indeed a Caline pedal.
:surprise: :surprise: :surprise:

(I totally don't remember the model though)

[UglyCasanova]

I figured it out actually.

But, ya, mine sounds good but it has bad power filtering, so it's pretty noisy. It's a fuzz though, so.... Who cares?

[Pepe]

Which Hotone pedal caused bad luck, goroth? I have more than a dozen of them and I'm happy with them.

[goroth]

I've only had the Wally, and it was definitely better than the Mooer stuff, but for example the volume of the loop also affected the output volume when bypassed! Which made it difficult to use in the way I wanted because I like the loops to sit a bit lower in the mix, but that also meant turning down my output totally. Shit like that. The power supply filtering wasn't great either - it was easy to accidentally introduce noise into the rig. To be fair this is true of other pedals as well, and that's why I didn't want to really detail what I didn't like with the cheap small pedals I've had previously, I'm more interested in "are Caline doing something right".

[Pepe]

Okay, this is a complaint that I can understand. That's a reason why I don't like the first Wally edition too much. The Wally+ seems to be the better choice.

[Dowi]

I figured it out actually.

But, ya, mine sounds good but it has bad power filtering, so it's pretty noisy. It's a fuzz though, so.... Who cares?

from what i remember it has a sweet spot somewhere where it does velcro-stuff, the rest is kinda meh, but i might be wrong.

[echorec]

Will wait for the guy with the Caline tattoo to chime in...

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

Can't speak to dirt (tho I've seen love for several of 'em), but I like the Caline delays I have and the Snake Bite reverb is legit.

[Tall Walls]

I really wanted to buy the Caline "So What" flanger that had a cartoon of a dog getting decapitated on it, but I absolutely do not need another flanger. They changed the art to two unbeheaded dogs--still completely nonsensical, but not xtreme enough for me.

[UglyCasanova]

I figured it out actually.

But, ya, mine sounds good but it has bad power filtering, so it's pretty noisy. It's a fuzz though, so.... Who cares?

from what i remember it has a sweet spot somewhere where it does velcro-stuff, the rest is kinda meh, but i might be wrong.

That's the one setting I've used

Everything dimed except for the volume. Perfection.

[moid]

I have a Caline Orange Burst, it's a brilliant boost/low gain overdrive with incredible bass/treble boost and cut. Apparently it's a clone of an Xotic Effects BB Preamp. I don't know if that is true, but I use it all the time when I want to add some subtle texture, make stuff louder (20dB boost, plus 15dB more for each of the tone knobs!) or to fix tonal issues that happen when you chain too many modulations pedals together at the same time*. It's totally worth the money. Mine was the cheapest new pedal I've ever bought - I think Amazon was flogging them for £22! OK just checked they now cost £26.99 in the UK... that's still a steal in my opinion. I probably should own another, they come in handy!

I have the snakebite reverb as well and that's fine, but not as interesting as I want a reverb to be - I prefer the digiverb or my new favourite the Mooer A7 which is stacked with ILF friendly weird reverbs (admittedly it does cost 4 times more than a Caline pedal though!)

I also have the CP15 Tantrum. Do not buy this. It is fucking horrible. Really fizzy distortion with so much extra hiss... it does go really loud, and you can sound like a bad 80s speed metal fanatic playing in a metal bucket with it, but I hate that sound... and you can probably buy better distortions that don't have a constant audible hiss when you aren't playing. It's supposed to be a clone of an EHX Metal Muff... no idea if that is true; it sounds nothing like a muff though. It does have very good tone shaping possibilities, but the hiss is still there as soon as you stop playing...

And I also have the CP44 Reflector Reverb - this isn't exactly a reverb, but it uses 3x PT2399 delay chips as a poor man's imitation of a reverb pedal (DBA use a similar trick with a Belton Brick chip which is 3x PT23399's in a single chip in the Reverberation Machine)... so it's a bit lo fi, but it lacks the extra circuit that DBA added to distort the fuck out of things... It sounds more like a really short delay mixed with a reverb. I like it, it's not subtle and it's different to any other reverb, but it is a one trick pony - it does one sound only, and the knobs do not change that sound much (you can't change the delay length because the circuit can't support that). I got it secondhand on Ebay for less than £4 which was so cheap that I had to buy it! I figured even if it sucked, for that price I've got a decent enclosure for less than I would pay for a new box! But it has it's own flavour and is worth having if you find one really cheap secondhand and need a lofi reverb.



*there is of course no such thing as too many modulation pedals, but sometimes too many phaser/flanger/chorus combinations do result in some weird high or low pitched artefacts that were not part of the sonic aesthetic I was trying to evoke. Man.

[K2000]

I'm curious about the Ghost Rain "reverb delay"....

[goroth]

I also have the CP15 Tantrum. Do not buy this. It is fucking horrible. Really fizzy distortion with so much extra hiss... it does go really loud, and you can sound like a bad 80s speed metal fanatic playing in a metal bucket with it, but I hate that sound... and you can probably buy better distortions that don't have a constant audible hiss when you aren't playing. It's supposed to be a clone of an EHX Metal Muff... no idea if that is true; it sounds nothing like a muff though. It does have very good tone shaping possibilities, but the hiss is still there as soon as you stop playing...

This is exactly how a metal muff sounds. It is a piece of shit and the schem has about as much in common with a muff as it does a spring reverb tank.

Super interesting post moid!

[Confuzzled]

Is Caline owned by Donner? Oddly enough I saw a donner piano commercial while browsing through the free streaming PLUTO TV app.