Mid 60’s Valco-style dirty garage tremolo. The Valco company of Chicago made amplifiers under their own name in addition to building amps for other companies such as Supro, National, and Gretsch, to name a few. Most o...

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Mid 60’s Valco-style dirty garage tremolo. The Valco company of Chicago made amplifiers under their own name in addition to building amps for other companies such as Supro, National, and Gretsch, to name a few. Most of these were lower powered amps with a great sounding natural tube breakup and many models also featured a unique sounding tube driven tremolo. It had a hypnotic throb and was also capable of hard, choppy tremolo. Combined with the breakup overdriven characteristics of the amplifier, it created a percussive, rhythmic pulse that is very inspiring to play.

  • Designed for: The Catalinbread Valcoder is designed to recreate the tube tremolo as well as the amplifier breakup of the vintage amplifiers
  • Weight: It weighs 0.48 lb
  • Controls: You get separate input and output controls
  • Sound: You can get anything from a clean tremolo sound up to a gritty tube-like breakup driving the tremolo circuit
  • Power Source: It is powered by 9-18V DC power supply