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This is a used Catalinbread Soft Focus Reverb pedal. The item pictured is the one you will receive. It has been tested and gone over by the experts at our shop to ensure it's working properly and is free of issues, unless otherwise noted in this listing. Please read the description carefully and check over all photos for condition and wear. We do our best to describe all items as best as possible and note any wear we find, but please be considerate that it is a used piece and it won’t be perfect. We pack all items with care when shipping them. If you have any questions about this or any other piece of gear we have, please let us know and we'll be happy to help!-------------------------Condition Notes:- Condition: 9/10- Any wear of note: This pedal is in overall amazing shape. There's no real wear of note, just velcro on the back. But that's really it!- General notes: Here's a stellar sounding reverb from Catalinbread! Based on the famous patch from the Yamaha FX500 used by so many shoegaze bands for killer ambient trails like you dream about!- Accessories included: Original box only.-------------------------From Catalinbread:Soft Focus ReverbThe Soft Focus patch on the Yamaha FX500 was widely used in the ‘90s by early shoegaze bands, most notably Slowdive on Souvlaki. With its roots in that patch, the Catalinbread Soft Focus is intended to be an instant shoegaze button, while addressing the most glaring issues of the original unit: no mix control, a sub-par preamp, and a ghastly tone-sucking bypass signal. At its heart, the Soft Focus is a heavily modified plate reverb with adjustable time, which is subsequently split into three paths. One path contains a multi-voiced chorus modulator, another features a well-appointed octave-up mixed in with the reverb, and the third path leaves the reverb untouched. The Mod knob controls the rate of the chorus on path one, and the Symphony knob controls the level of the octave on path two. All controls are "coupled" to the tone of the reverb to give users an expansive playing field of sounds to discover and fine tune. Our Soft Focus is not an exact recreation but was exhaustivelycompared with our own FX500; the difference is that a fairly generic fixed-time digital delay is present on the Soft Focus patch. We found that leaving this feature intact ate into the circuit’s memory just a little too much for such little payoff, so we leave that addition to you and your favorite delay.