Dirty Little
Secret MKIII
If you dig the burly, raw vintage Marshall
tones, but don’t find that owning a real
vintage Marshall head is a practical
lifestyle choice, then Catalinbread’s Dirty
Little Secret MKIII is probably your next
best option. A lot of pedals sound like
a Marshall, but the DLS is a Marshall.
Actually, it’s at least two Marshalls; an
internal switch allows it to operate in the
higher gain Super Lead mode, where it
can cop anything from classic Plexi bark
to JCM800 crunch, or Super Bass mode,
where it generates the fatter, lower gain,
JTM-45-ish kind of response that defines
Marshall’s underappreciated Super Bass
heads (this mode, as you might guess, is
also awesome for bass guitar). Switching
modes completely rearranges the pedal’s
tone stack for maximum sonic authenticity.
The Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret MKIII
is an ideal foundation box, and as such, it
stacks remarkably well with other dirt or
fuzz pedals rammed into the front of it,
especially at 18 volts.
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