family is holding up fine, but it’s been
a challenging year, as you might have
guessed. We have had to deal with
estate and probate issues that may
have distracted us a bit, but we have
tried to stay focused on what we do
best, which is to come up with great
pedals. To that end, we worked on our
most ambitious development effort
yet throughout 2016 until we went to
Winter NAMM in 2017, which as you
know is the Belle Epoch Deluxe and the
Epoch Pre. So that’s what we’ve spent
most of the last year doing, and we’re
really proud of that work.
But the thing is, it’s been difficult
because we lost our founder and
comrade, Nicholas Harris. But Nic
used to joke all the time (especially in
the last couple of years) that he had
worked himself out of a job by building
this team around him. I don’t know if
it was by intention, design, or default,
but he kind of ended up doing that,
as it turns out, because we basically
have a full team in place that enables
Catalinbread to run at full speed, even
without him.
I, for that matter, have been the head
of R&D, and the primary designer of
our pedals for quite a few years now
anyway, and so we’ve been able to
continue to do what we do pretty
seamlessly. And our philosophy for
what we do, and of our pedals, which
is creating dynamic, responsive
instruments specifically for guitar
(although they can be used for lots
of other things) comes largely from
me: one of the pickiest motherfuckers
around. A large percentage of our
current products are already of my
design.
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