Catalinbread Talisman Quick Start Quide

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The Catalinbread Talisman was designed to emulate the legendary (and gigantic!) EMT
140 plate reverb unit introduced in the late 1950’s. In use for decades now in studios
around the world, it has become an industry standard and has been used on some of the
most iconic recordings ever made.

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For those not familiar, a plate reverb is essentially a very large sheet metal panel (roughly
7’ x 5’) suspended within a metal frame by heavy duty springs and encased within a large
wooden box. The incoming signal hits the metal plate via a driver amplifier and transducer
causing it to vibrate much like the cone of a speaker does. Pickups placed around the
plate sense the vibration and the signal is then sent to an output amplifier to boost the
signal. Sliding damper pads inside the box are adjusted to determine the length of decay.
It’s a brilliantly simple design. The result is an incredibly lush and natural sounding reverb
that never seems to get in the way of the source signal - it just embellishes it and creates
the illusion of space. "

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The Talisman provides the same lush dimension to your sound - subtly creating space
around your playing at minimum settings to seemingly endless waves of ambient
shimmering reflections at the extremes. Drawing sonic inspiration from classic albums of
the 70's such as Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon to those incendiary first Van Halen
records and literally thousands of others, the Talisman excels at replicating those
quintessential plate reverb sounds. Featuring controls used in the studio models like high
pass filtering and pre-delay, we’ve made it easy for guitarists to dial in that same
compelling sound when using it with an amplifier.

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Hello and welcome to your new
Talisman!