Product Details
- Brand: Caroline
- Style: Modulation,Preamp
- Color: Silver
- Item Weight: 476 Grams
- Voltage: 9 Volts
- Brand Name: Caroline
- UPC: 653801544992
- Item Weight: 476 Grams
- Color: Silver
- Style Name: Modulation,Preamp
- Controls Type: Knob
- Signal Format: Analog
- Amperage: 30 Milliamps
- Voltage: 9 Volts
- Solid state, transistor generated waveform tremolo
- Up to +12db of clean gain
- Improved speed, fast/slow, and depth ranges
From Caroline: The Parabola is a solid state, transistor generated waveform
tremolo. The oscillator is strongly influenced by the vintage Schaller
TR-68/TR-316 “West Germany” tremolo pedals that I fell in love with in the
1990s. They have a gorgeous analog waveform that actually changes shape with
the depth control. Beyond a faithful approach to the transistor LFO, there are
a host of improvements we’ve made. The Parabola’s volume control has more than
enough output to compensate for any perceived volume loss of the tremolo
effect – in fact, it’s up to +12db of clean gain – AND there is a gorgeous
preamplifier drive stage based on the “invader” preamp of our Kilobyte and
Météore pedals, so you can crank the gain and generate drive at any volume.
You can think of the Parabola as an additional “tremolo channel” for your
setup. The AM mode is the classic Schaller amplitude modulation, gorgeous and
wobbly, like sloshing through deep puddles with your rain boots on. The “FM”
mode is a frequency dependent ‘filtered’ mode based on the depth control that
manages to create a shimmering effect that gets out of the way of your
playing. The Speed, Fast/Slow, and Depth ranges have been improved both from
the (often incorrect) Schaller schematics people post online and the real deal
vintage TR-68s we traced, and the Depth can be easily zero’d out to allow you
to just use the gorgeous preamp and booster. And the Havoc “inverts” whichever
speed range you’ve chosen and opens up the depth control, so you can
momentarily “juice” or “drag” the effect on demand.
