Catalinbread Montavillian Echo

Catalinbread Montavillian Echo is an old-skool  delay pedal with a nice smooth, analog, and warm sound and based on a old delay IC.

Spoiled by the various tube driven echo units Catalinbread has around the shop, they wanted this Echo pedal to sound and feel just as BIG! So they went all out on the audio path on this thing…

They took painstaking efforts to make the dry signal sound and feel better when on than with the pedal bypassed. The Echo utilizes an obsolete delay processing IC, however, rather than slavishly following the path of that chip’s forebears, we cracked the books and ventured out on our own, using our ears to guide us, and what we achieved is a fantastic sounding delay, with a slew of sounds in a small, easy to use footprint.

It has great headroom and stacking abilities, which are often shortcomings of echo pedals. We’ve run the Montavillian into all of our amps clean and cranked (Hiwatt, AC30, 5E3, Super Reverb, Blues Jr. etc.) we’ve also stacked it before our dirt pedals. We’ve even slammed it with numerous fuzzes and overdrives. The Montavillian handles it all with no effort. Should you need even more headroom, the Montavillian can be run at 18V.

Catalinbread Montavillian Echo demo video