Catalinbread Soft Focus Shoegaze Reverb Pedal with Chorus, Modulation, and Octave-up

With its roots in the Yamaha FX500 Soft Patch, the Catalinbread Soft Focus is intended to be an instant shoegaze button, while addressing the most glaring issues of the original unit. The original unit had a very plug-and-play approach, offering 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. One path contains a “symphonic” 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. The Catalinbread Soft Focus is not an exact recreation but was exhaustively compared with their own FX500; the difference is that a fairly generic fixed-time digital delay is present on the Soft Focus patch.