Caline CP-514 Santa Carla Boost Guitar Effect Pedal, Mini Booster Pedal with True Bypass

PROCaline have been in competition with EHX for the loudest popping foot-switches until the Multimod arrived. Its silent. And that’s this pedals biggest accolade.CONSThe graphic and build quality are very pleasant but functional would also be nice. The top three knobs cover the names of their functions. Two know names are under the knob and one is above. Not that you can see from 10 inches away. Given you are looking from standing or sitting, forget it. The graphic is busy and “shift” means speed in all bar one case. A less busy graphic would’ve helped functionally, which is sad cos it’s actually a good looking pedal.Chorus - well it’s chorus but a comparison against the Boss CE2 mono is chalk vs cheese when you’re looking for something to put on your crackers.Flanger - it’s like they went for it but became content with flan. If you’re trying to get the cradle to rock or an EVH jet flanger, I have a George Dennis Chorus pedal that succeeds without the effort. I suspect the chorus engine is being lent on for theDoubler/vibrato/tremolo - these work well at lower settings.Phaser - again lower or rather lowest setting otherwise …. Well reviewers who got a pedal free say weird. Reality is that is unusable. Also out of all the modulation effects this absolutely should be run after the tuner and wah-wah. That’s where a phase 90 lives and breaths. Where as the rest of the mod board will go before delays.Pitch - this should also be in front. But then you’d be thinking this is a pitch shift effect or Octaver. It’s not. It’s “a metallic weird sound” to read the manual. The controls are: intervals, wet/dry and fine tune. So it’d be great if we could set the interval to an octave up (or down), blend with the analogue tone, and fine tune the note. Well I did manage to achieve that playing a fretted D on the B string. The shame is that with every guitar (all with recent set ups and perfect intonation) move to another fret or string and you’ve lost tuning. So if I was to want to go on to talk about not tracking. Well it’s just not possible. It can’t be set at the supposed intervals of a third etc and there’s no modulation to be able to pass it off as ring modulation or something else. It can play the same not you’re playing. But that’s what the doubler does.Unfortunately I really wanted to like this. I thin Caline have some fantastic pedals. The Pure Sky is a fantastic Timmy clone and their EQs are an alternative to MXRs.I think there’s got to be a 2nd generation improved version possible but the types of fixes are not just in one area. I researched this pedal before buying and the sad thing is too few buyers had reasonable expectations for the product. Shame on us customers. This is Caline at £50ish. At £25 the Pure Sky is amongst the best sub £100 pedals ever.Caline, what went wrong here?