Caline CP-12 Pure Sky Guitar Pedal Effect Highly Pure and Clean Overdrive Guuitar Fx

I bought this pedal and use it in tandem with the Caline Orange Burst. In terms of a two stage, two pedal, overdrive setup coming it at around $60, I've been beyond thrilled with their performance. The Pure Sky itself is a magical little pedal. At first, I used this to add clean boost and a bit of tube-ish tone to my guitar which at the time, I was running straight into a keyboard amp because I play a variety of instruments in my band. Even alone it added a bit of spark to my amp. Eventually I added an amp-modeling pedal (at first the JOYO American Sound and now the HX Stomp) and the Pure Sky serves as my "always on" pedal that adds a bit of sparkle and analog to my base guitar tone. For the most part, I just leave this pedal on anytime I'm playing guitar and use the EQ and volume controls to adjust to each room I play in--the gain knob stays at 0 almost always . I've experimented with the gain, and the Pure Sky adds a nice bit of low gain overdrive up until about halfway, at which point it becomes a grittier overdrive that probably has some application, but sounds mostly a little hairy to my ears. That said, for 30 bucks, this pedal is a steal--and despite the fact that I completely intended to replace this pedal with a more expensive model down the line, it's been in the mix for over a year and I can't bring myself to stop using it. When used with the Orange Burst, the possibilities are seriously impressive. At this point, I exclusively run the Pure Sky into the Orange Burst, leaving the Pure Sky on always and adding the Orange Burst for an extra layer of OD/distortion for certain lead parts. These two pedals really sound great together. Earlier in my experimentation, I ran the Orange Burst into the Pure Sky just for fun and kept this order for a number of months (despite the fact that it goes against the typical OD stacking philosophy). This provided an entirely different sound that I still loved. Both pedals clean up well by lowering the volume knob. Overall, these Caline pedals are no brainers. I've only tried these two, and have doubts about their more complicated digital pedals, but as far as OD goes, these pedals are fantastic for the price.

Great sounding pedal at any price, and especially great for the $29 I purchased it for back in early January. I've owned many guitar pedals over the years, and as for flavors of of overdrive/distortion/fuzz, I currently own a Keeley Blues Driver, an old TS7 Tube Screamer, a Caline Orange Burst, a Danelectro Wasabi Overdrive, a Joyo Ultimate Drive, and a clone of a Tone Bender Professional MK II that I hand-built. This is one of my favorite pedals. How to describe its tonal qualities for those curious? - well, lets talk grainy distortion to ultra-smooth overdrive and everything in-between, to give you an idea of the tone: 1. On one extreme of the above mentioned pedals of mine is the Tone Bender MK II fuzz. Though it's less grainy than almost every other fuzz pedal back in the day - it does sing - you generally don't use it lightly. Think Yardbirds "Avron Knows" or "Think About It". 2. Next comes the the Joyo Ultimate Drive - it's somewhere between Distortion & Overdrive in graininess, and VERY fat. Amazingly good at heavier 70's tones (single notes & power chords) on the bridge pickup of a traditional Tele or Strat early P90 guitar. Likely not clear enough for modern/high-output humbuckers....I wouldn't know for certain though, as I don't like, therefore don't own those sorts of guitars. Best with the gain at about 25-40% (which is already quite heavy at that, due to a poorly thought-out overdrive curve). This pedal is instant Led Zeppelin with a Telecaster. 3. Next comes the Keeley Blues Driver. This pedal is crunch overdrive galore. Kind of grainy for an overdrive, but much smoother & clearer than distortion, and very hi-fi sounding - lots of bass & treble, no midrange hump. It's also quite dynamic. On single-coil through P90 bridge pickup, it's great for slamming 3-6 note chords for a grainier "just breaking up" sound....not as good at single notes. I only ever use it at around 30-50% gain setting (and usually with a compressor pedal), as it just doesn't sound very good above that (gets kind of mushy and nondescript), and below it, doesn't taper the overdriven notes off smoothly enough to be truly great at it. With a Tele, this pedal sounds top-notch for chord-driven songs like "Jumpin Jack Flash" (gain around 30%, broadcaster-style bridge pickup) or "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (50% gain, with my Filtertron/mini-humbucker style Tele neck pickup) more than any other pedal I've yet-heard.. 4. TS7/Wasabi/Orange Burst/Pure Sky - All of these are very fine-grained overdrive pedals/very smooth (fine-grained enough for complex chords/arpeggios sounding warm and clear when lightly overdriven on a Telecaster). Notes taper off well. Out of these, the TS7 & Wasabi are more 1st generation "lo-fi" sounding pedals (either with that annoying TS7 midrange hump that only sounds truly great on Strat neck pickup, or with a limited EQ that messes with the tone too much - Wasabi) and each are less dynamic than the Pure Sky. Then there is the Orange Burst, which sounds like a better version of the TS7 or Wasabi, with better frequency response, yet has a bit of natural compression of dynamics compared to the Pure Sky - I've heard it compared to the Xotic BB Booster, but I've never owned one so I can't say. Note: should you wish it, this pedal can produce HUGE clean volume boost via the "Volume" control. Finally comes the Pure Sky, which is very smooth, nearly as hi-fi as the Keeley Blues Driver, and very uncompressed & dynamic. Quite the opposite of the Blues Driver, it sounds fantastic on single notes, with a very smooth decay. I've never heard an overdrive so smooth, while at the same time having such a flat frequency response. Works great with *any* one of these other pedals (just don't overdo the gain). Now, as for the long-term quality, well, it's made of metal, but internally, it's a cheap wave-soldered Chinese pedal. I've had no problems yet, but I'm fairly gentle with pedals, keeping them on a pedalboard. I'm not going to count on it lasting as long as my 1985 Boss CS-2, but at least it's been OK so far, and for $29, I'm not complaining.

THE SOUND: In my honest opinion, this is one of the greatest sounding pedals I've played. The tone is warm. The whole thing is so versatile. You can go from really clean to really dirty really fast. The tone knobs tremendously add to the versatility. I've played a Timmy, and this thing is pretty much the same (hence the cloning...) However, I would say I like the Pure Sky more than the Timmy because of its Treble and Bass knobs, which function as boosts instead of cuts. Currently, I run the Pure Sky as a clean boost with a Zvex Box of Rock going into it. They sound great together. THE PRICE: This pedal is DIRT CHEAP. I was never the type of person to care about the country of origin of a product. And when it comes to pedals, my mentality is "if it sounds good to you, get it." So price is not really a thing for me... I would have gotten the Timmy if it weren't for those tone knobs. I actually prefer the Pure Sky, and the price is just a huge plus. THE LOOK: The one thing I do hate about buying items made overseas is that they tend to look tacky... This thing looks tacky. That's why I had to give it 4 stars. The color is gross, the font is childish, and the paint job is sub par. I was embarrassed to put it on my board. So I actually sanded mine down. Now it's just a metal box, and it looks great. Like a true clone pedal. THE VERDICT: I don't see myself parting with this pedal ever. For how cheap it is, it's worth just getting one. So do it, and prepare to be amazed.

As you can see from my board, I'm no stranger to expensive gear but I'm not one to ignore bargain pedals either if they do the job I need them to do. At 70 I've gone through over 500 different pedals in 55 years of playing and now have found the perfect mix of functionality and affordability for my sounds. I was searching for a low gain transparent drive to add basic rhythm crunch to the clean channel of my Orange Crush 35RT solid state amp and the Pure Sky fits the bill in spades. I won't say it adds "tube-like warmth" but it does add a smoothness that makes the amp "feel" tubey, if that makes sense. No noise, no popping switch, no tone loss when off. It's a great pusher for the OCD & MXR, perfect for solos over heavy chords. This would be a bargain at $75, so at this price it's a steal!

This is my first real pedal, I just got this today. I play an ESP LTD M-10 guitar, through both an Acoustic G20 amp and an iPad with JamUp Pro using a Griffin Guitar Connect Pro. This setup sounds good to me, except that I can't easily switch to overdriven sounds in the middle of a song. I needed a pedal to get me there. I didn't want a Tube Screamer clone, because I didn't want to always cut bass and treble. I wanted something transparent (no changes in bass, mid or treble). This pedal is supposedly similar to a Timmy (a very highly rated OD). The big differences are that on a real Timmy, you get some extra setting switches that change the symmetry of the diode clipping, and the amount of compression. Also, the treble and bass controls on the Timmy will only cut frequencies. On the Pure Sky you can either boost or cut both treble and bass by either going clockwise or counterclockwise on the knobs. The real Timmy is probably much more precise. For a guitarist like me, who doesn't record or play in a band, and needed an inexpensive option—I opted for the Pure Sky. It took less than two weeks to arrive from China (from seller Mohan Xu) to my place in the U.S. It came packaged inside a plastic bag, within foam, within a small cardboard box, within a bubble mailer envelope. This doesn't come with a battery or power adapter. The only included extras were little round sticker "feet" for the pedal, which I haven't needed yet. The pedal appears and feels adequately durable on the jacks, knobs, switch and casing. The pedal is 8.5 ounces on my kitchen scale without a battery inside. I've not tested with a 9V battery. I'm using an Electro-Harmonix 9v 200mA power adapter with a Boss-type 2.1mm center negative jack. I've read on a forum that this pedal only consumes about 5mA. I did try to test the true bypass: If I don't plug in the power, it will still bypass my guitar's sound to the amp without changing the tone. If I turn the pedal on without power, it will mute the guitar. With the gain all the way down, level set to unity, bass at noon, and treble at noon—I can't hear it switch on (not even through headphones), and I can't hear any difference at all in my tone (this is very good). It's as if it's not even there. Turning up the gain, and backing off the volume to stay at unity, I can kind of mimic the lower gain settings of the lead channel on my amp. With the gain dimed, I can clean up the sound completely just by turning down the volume on my guitar, and then switch to a lead tone by rolling it back up to full again. With the gain all the way down, and volume all the way up, I can use this pedal as a clean volume boost. With the gain down, and the volume at unity, I can use this as a basic EQ pedal by changing the bass and treble knobs. With the gain dimed on the pedal, and on my solid state practice amp, I can get some extra compression/sustain that sounds good to me. I haven't tested truly overdriving my amp by turning up the volume on the amp, and then engaging the pedal. I live in an apartment, so I can't try this. With an SS amp like mine, I've read elsewhere that this usually ends up in harsh clipping that's not very musical. So, it's a mystery how my amp and this pedal would respond. At the most extreme gain settings, it seems to compress slightly. I don't really care for the gain to be past 2 o'clock, as the character of the clipping doesn't sound good to me (harsh/raspy). I think this excels at either giving a slight to moderate level of grit by itself. If you're looking for more of a modern rock heavy overdriven sound, this pedal isn't really for that. If you're looking for a clean boost, basic EQ, and/or light transparent OD, then get this. I recommend searching for the video reviews of this pedal so that you can listen to it and decide if it sounds like it will work for you first though.

Of course you get dizzy reading all the reviews, this one is for the Pure Sky OD, be sure when reading on Amazon that the review is in fact about the pedal you are considering!! Soooo the CP12 is the one on deck today, just gotta love it, no it is not gonna work for the Zak or EVH crowd, well maybe as a boost for a new voice in their custom built boutique amps! Ah but then there is the rest of us losers still trying to get our sound and style. The Blue Sky definitely can take us further along the way on our tone quest journey! Why? many answers there, but the biggie for me is the tube like breakup, sadly many modern players really have not heard or "felt" that in an amp or pedal! Let me explain, the natural tube breakup is a sort of electro/organic thang, often the cabinet resonance tone is in the mix as well; yes it is a type of compression and growl or thuddy buzz if you will, and much more; the result is a kinda touchy/feely expression the players experience when going into tube melt down and speaker breakup mode, am I making sense? Maybe not, one desired characteristic is the thickness and browness of tone that so many styles desire, yes the amplification is truly breaking up electrically, the sound is blurred as well as swollen, the waveform is pulsing and mushing out, but that chunky sustain and trail is what we are after here, and this over driven approach works well for what many players are seeking in their quest, and there are many variations of this phenomena indeed! Back to the Blue Sky, just trying to say the CP12 goes somewhat to what is described above and it surprised me, it renders what some call a clean breakup, with that thicker tone we need without the thin and harsh buzz and fizz I might add. Its funny how so many pedals tend to do the opposite of what most players desire in that regard. Of course your guitar and amp and EQ settings will influence the overall effect to varying degrees, but in my many years experience with a myriad of OD and Distortion pedals, the Blue Sky just has some real world tubed OD magic that most others do not! And again, it is not going to be a fave of the metal men, no disrespect here at all, but the CP12 will be more suitable for Blues, Rock and Country, I love my G&L Asat Telecaster with it, and there is a good reason for such compatibility, the separate bass and treble controls are very much in the tone shaping, this is a kool plus feature since the guitarist then may voice the dang thing any way he likes! Many of us are tired of fighting the prevoiced EQ curve in he vast majority of pedals out there! A single tone tone control simply cannot fully bring the player to his desired effect in most cases, not saying the Caline will always suffice in this regard, and certainly there is NO one size fits all OD pedal, BUT, you cannot go wrong with the CP12 at such a ridiculously low price point, a great change up for any axeman's pedal board, a new flavor or color of tone can take us to another creative place, for many the Pure Sky will do just that--it is a breath of fresh aire indeed--gotta love it!

The Clear Sky OD, billed as a Timmy clone, gave me exactly what I was looking for. My primary amp is a custom 6G2 clone. Brownface Fender style amps don’t have the scooped mids of their blackface (and silverface) successors. So TubeScreamer-type pedals don’t really work well with these amps. So I found myself in need of an overdrive that didn’t really alter the amp’s inherent (and spectacular) tone. Enter the Clear Sky. And it works perfectly. It sounds basically what my amp sounds like when driven to saturation. At any level. So, I’d definitely recommend this pedal to anyone with a tweed or brownface Fender style amp. My only complaint is that it’s not exactly sturdily constructed. I’ve already experienced some shorting out on a couple of the knobs. But it’s still a pretty good bang for the buck. A great sounding OD pedal. Update: Several months into my Pure Sky usage, and it’s still going strong. The aforementioned shorting out problem never really happened again. I simply love the tone this pedal helps me create. Most of the music I play is 60s-70s Rock, and I totally nail it with this pedal. Earlier on, I mentioned that the Pure Sky gives me an overdrive comparable to that of my amp when it’s cranked. At this point, after several months of daily use, I’d go so far as to say I PREFER the pedal’s overdrive to the amp’s natural overdrive, even with vintage RCA tubes across the board. The Pure Sky’s drive is just SO smooth and sweet. With my 6G2 Princeton clone, the Pure Sky and an EQ pedal, I can dial in pretty much any vintage rock tone I need: Derek and the Dominoes, Free, James Gang, early 70s Stones... just what the doctor ordered. I hereby change my rating from four to five stars.

I was pretty excited to get this after reading and hearing about all of the hype. But, upon first plugging it in and trying it out, i was pretty let down. The sound was OK at best. It sucked all the life out of the signal and then just kind of made it plain. It was not transparent at all. Then after about a day of using it, it's clipping starting to sound like a fartty fizz. Overall I was not impressed at all with this. For 20 bucks more you can get a Nux '6ixty5ive; which is a higher quality take on the same circuit. It also sounds much better. Maybe I just got a bad one, but this was the worst pedal I have ever purchased.

Decidí adquirir este pedal por las buenas reseñas que he visto en internet. Si algún efecto me entusiasma este es el overdrive, tengo varios pedales de este tipo y quise conocer el sonido del famoso Timmy, aunque sea en calidad de clon. El sonido me gusta, me parece discreto pero con carácter. Es lo que han dado en calificar como "transparente". Esto último puede ser bueno, malo o regular, porque si el equipo es de gama media (como el mío) el Pure Sky simplemente amplifica y enriquece la señal que produce el ampli y la guitarra. En este sentido no hace milagros, no enmascara y simplemente potencia y enaltece lo que el guitarrista y su equipo son capaces de generar. En resumen, mientras mejor sea el equipo, mejor es el resultado. Dicho esto, para mi equipo de gama media y mis escasos recursos como guitarrista, este efecto ha resultado un gran aliado. He grabado algunas piezas y el pedal por sí solo le añade un carácter interesante al sonido de la guitarra. Si lo potencio con un compresor el sonido mejora notablemente. Por la relación de precio y calidad le doy un 10/10

Why is this pedal so good?! $40 is wild for such a great sounding and useful pedal. The bass and treble knobs give extra versatility tonally and I can't recommend it enough. I've had everything from this to custom made ODs and this holds its own no problem

Excelente copia del Timmy Overdrive. Precio ridículo que se puede obtener aún más bajo, aunque personalmente prefiero la garantía de devolución de Amazon en productos chinos. A diferencia del Timmy, que tiene tres modos de clipping (simético soft, asimétrico soft, asimétrico hard) este pedal tiene solo uno de los soft clipping. Pero el tono es excelente, perfecto para Blues y Rock. Los controles de level y gain son algo menos progresivos que el original, dan más salto, pero funcionan bien. Los controles de graves y agudos no parecen filtros, como los del original, pero funcionan muy bien (los filtros del Timmy resultan farragosos para mí, prefiero los controles convencionales). Los he manipulado bastante poco porque el tono que saco con los controles a las 12 es extraordinario. El pedal es completamente silencioso, parece un producto de un rango superior de precio. Es una compra excelente a este precio. La construcción es robusta, es true bypass y viene bien embalado en una buena caja.

Sounds more than what you pay for.

Imbattibile per quel che riguarda il rapporto qualità prezzo, perfetto come clean boost (riesce a dare veramente parecchio guadagno), e se usato come overdrive tira fuori un suono veramente bello. In generale un pedale molto utile da avere in pedaliera. Vale molto più di quel che costa. In pedaliera ho molti pedali che sono ben più cari di questo, che però è uno di quelli che uso di più in assoluto. Tra l'altro si comporta anche molto bene lasciandolo sempre acceso per fare un suono di base cristallino per poi andare a dargli una forma con il pot del volume, veramente versatile e bello soprattutto se accoppiato con un distorsore (es. DS9)