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|January 2023
There’s no pussyfooting around for new company KittycasterFX as it hits the ground running with a pair of serious tone-shapers
KITTYCASTERFX TREMDRIVER & GROOVY WIZARD $399 & $299
1 KittycasterFX? Never heard of them… While you may not have heard of this new company, which only formed in April of this year, Catalinbread is likely to be a familiar name. And these pedals are the brainchild of Howard Gee, former Catalinbread pedal designer.
2 What makes these different? Howard’s idea here was to make the most responsive guitar pedal ever. He says that these are designed to bring out every nuance of your playing and to make your rig sound bigger and more dynamic.
3 Only two pedals? So far, but both have plenty packed into them. The Tremdriver offers an Echoplex-style preamp plus Harmonic tremolo, while the Groovy Wizard’s powers range from boost to full-on fuzz.
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This story is from the January 2023 edition of Guitarist.
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