Catalinbread Galileo Operation Manual

Dual function overdrive and booster

Operations Manual

Presenting the Catalinbread Galileo!

The Galileo is a dual function overdrive and booster that gives you the sound and feel of Brian May's live

rig! Brian plugs his Red Special guitar into a custom treble-booster and a bank of AC30s to get his soaring

overdriven guitar sound with Queen. We took our CB30 Foundation Overdrive (which emulates the AC30

ampli er) and our Naga Viper treble-booster (which is our extension of the Dallas Rangemaster treble-

booster) as a starting point, and tuned and re ned the sound and response until we got the perfect Brian

May sound. Just plug the Galileo into your amp set to a clean, neutral setting and it will transform it into

the juicy, harmonic-laden, soaring sound that Brian May made famous!

The Galileo incorporates all the hallmarks of our Foundation Series Overdrives, such as extreme touch

sensitivity, clean to scream from your guitar knob, and authentic amp-like playing response that doesn't

feel like you are playing a "pedal".

The overdrive and "Top Boost" have separate footswitches that may be used independently. Basically, it's

two pedals in one!

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Page 1 Brian May sound. Just plug the Galileo into your amp set to a clean, neutral setting and it will transform it into...
Page 2 Quick Start Don’t worry, you don’t HAVE to use a Red Special guitar to get tones evocative of Brian May with the Galileo! And even if you aren’t going for Brian May’s sound speci cally, you’ll nd the custom-tuned combination of cranked AC30 overdrive boosted with our Naga Viper treble-booster circuit irresistible for your own epic musical explorations.
Page 3 Start section, Treble at 1:00 and Bass at 11:00 is a good starting point. The Galileo was voiced speci cally to get the cranked AC30 tones of Brian May’s live work. So go ahead and set the Gain at maximum and back it o if you feel necessary (to compensate for hot pickups). Otherwise, set the Gain to max and use your guitar’s volume control to go from crunch to clean!
Page 4 Galileo into juicy Brian May territory. With both channels on, this may be the most fun to play dirt pedal Catalinbread has o ered yet! It just feels good to rock out through this thing! If you watch Brian May play you’ll notice that his booster is always on (in fact, on recent tours it’s actually...