Catalinbread STS-88

After having acquired more flangers than should be allowed by law, Catalinbread sealed themselves away in the laboratory to study the nuts and bolts of the effect. What emerged was the STS-88, a love letter to the flanger.

After having acquired more flangers than should be allowed by law, Catalinbread sealed themselves away in the laboratory to study the nuts and bolts of the effect. What emerged was the STS-88, a love letter to the flanger.

Their development sector contains units of all types, from the ubiquitous Boss HF-2 and EHX Electric Mistress to more exotic pieces like the Effectron ADM256 and MXR Flanger/Doubler. In one late night frenzy of pedal swapping, they discovered that enveloping a flanger in a cavernous reverb really did the trick.

Finding that this pristine combination suffered at the hands of extraneous noise, they embedded a very gentle noise gate to stifle inherent guitar hiss and LFO clock noise. The result is an extremely musical flanger that sounds like an extension of your own instrument, but it can also fuel up and take off when a little dirt of any kind is applied beforehand.