Caline is an electronics company based in Shenzhen, China. They specialize in the manufacturing and development of effects pedals and power supplies, among various other types of musical equipment.
It’s difficult to find much information about Caline online, but it’s obvious that the company has already developed a dedicated fan base around the world due to the quality of their products.
Have you ever wondered which pedals they are emulating? Well then you have come to the right place! We have gone and compiled a list of the corresponding pedals that Caline have cloned in their product line.
THE ULTIMATE CALINE GUITAR PEDAL CLONE LIST
NO. | CALINE PEDAL | TYPE | ORIGINAL |
CP-10 | Hot Mushroom | Compressor | – |
CP-11 | Puffer | Fuzz | Dunlop Silicon Fuzz Face |
CP-12 | Pure Sky | Overdrive | Paul Cochrane Timmy |
CP-13 | Super Chorus | Super Chorus | – |
CP-14 | English Man | Distortion | Carl Martin Plexitone |
CP-15 | Tantrum | Heavy Metal | – |
CP-16 | Mark 4 | Distortion | – |
CP-17 | Time Space | Delay | – |
CP-18 | Orange Burst | Overdrive | Xotic BB Preamp |
CP-19 | Blue Ocean | Delay | Mad Professor Deep Blue |
CP-20 | Crazy Cacti | Overdrive | Fulltone Fulldrive 2 |
CP-21 | Rock Face | Distortion | Wampler Plexidrive |
CP-22 | Purple Smoke | Clear Boost | – |
CP-23 | Active Direct Box | DI Box | – |
CP-24 | 10 Band EQ | Band EQ | – |
CP-25 | Highway Man | Overdrive | Xotic RC Booster |
CP-26 | Snake Bite | Reverb | Original design |
CP-27 | Sand Storm | Distortion | – |
CP-28 | Ultra Chorus | Ultra Chorus | – |
CP-29 | White Heat | Mixing Boost | DOD Overdrive Preamp 250 |
CP-30 | Red Devil | Heavy Metal | – |
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CP-15: Wampler Triple Wreck
CP-21: IS NOT Wampler Plexidrive, but an OCD with slightly different tone control (more mids) and switchable 2N7000/4148 clipping.
CP-24: MXR 10-band EQ
CP-16: 2-stage distortion with 4148 clipping diodes in both stages.
You missed the CP-43 Pegasus Overdrive clone of the Klon.
CP-15 is a electro harmonix metal muff actually, not a triple wreck!
I don’t think the Highwayman is an RC booster clone because it has way more gain than an RC booster. This rumor started because it has the same circuit board are the orange burst, apparently. I suggest that it is possibly an AC Booster. The BB and RC are both based on the AC. If it is based on the RC, it is modified to the point that it’s something else entirely
CP-30 Wampler Plextortion
CP-28 Boss CE-2
CP-27 MI Audio Crunch Box
CP-16 Noah’s Ark Distortion ‘B’
CP-15 EHX metal muff (with top boost)
CP-24: MXR 10-band EQ
CP-27: Mi audio Crunch Box v2/3 with presence as a pot (not inner trimmer)
CP-30: Wampler Plextortion
The Highway is also a clone of the Timmy. Caline just put in weird pots for the tone controls so at noon it has a much more pronounced mid-hump. Otherwise it is exactly the same as the Pure Sky.
Confirmed by rev engineering here: http://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28753
I think the Hot Mushroom is an MXR Dynacomp clone. Pretty sure.
I think the Hot Mushroom is an MXR Dynacomp clone. Pretty sure.
Can you please update this list?
CP-34 Head Room – Vintage Distortion – Pro Co RAT
The CP-22 Purple Smoke is more like the Xotic Effects RC Booster than the CP-25 Highwayman.
The CP-47 PRESSURE TANK is a Diamond Compressor clone. Excellent pedal and remarkably quiet.
The CP-15 Tantrum pedal is supposedly a MESA BOOGIE pre-amp type clone. I purchased, plugged it into a JCM800 on low gain with presence and entire tone stack at 5. Through a PAF 50’s wired LP Custom setup I personally thought it was a SLO50/100 type preamp tone. I looked it up, others say MESA BOOGIE. Either way, this thing seriously destroys. Some terrible YouTube video reviews and some good ones. With my setup I felt it sounded pretty much dead ringer to SLO. You decide, worth it, and extremely quiet for such high gain.
The CP-504 M:Fuzz pedal is said to be an OpAmp V4 Big-Muff Pi. I own a 1990’s V4 and Sovtek version of these and have played them for longer than many people reading this have been alive. It’s neither of those. It’s very very close, but is missing the sharp edge/bite of a real Big Muff. It’s also an altered tone control with a sweep range that is useful all the way through 0 to dimed. Unlike the real Big Muff, the M:Fuzz’s tone setup is more mid-range focused, where the original Muff muddies out. You will get a smoother, more sustainy melodic type tone with this than an original. Not a bad pedal at all. Will sit side by side with my real muff. This thing just does Fuzz a little differently. I’m willing to bet its some oddity Muff edition clone because it’s definitely Muff’ish, just not OpAmp V4 or Sovtek for sure.
I’m pretty sure the Purple Smoke’s (CP-22) clean boost is a unique design it’s the secret sleeper pedal that does something that’s not duped by anything else available out there effectively it’s a hidden gem destined to be somewhat of a legend for the price it simply can’t be beat for what it does. It offer’s a special tone not just for guitarist’s but for synths & mic boosting as well it’s really quite an impressive stomp box folks.
CP-99 “Overdrive” was referred to as the Medusa in the Reverb listing, but that word is nowhere to be found on the pedal.(Gold with red print – graphic of what looks like a mermaid using a pointy metal guitar as an arrow in its bow)- supposedly a Klon, but I cracked one open and it’s not a traditional Klon. They changed the pot values, used a different op amp, Lower voltage than the real Klon. Uses an inductor to achieve +12v rather than a charge pump.. I could not find any +18v in there. Sounds higher gain and more treble than a real Klon.
Bob P is correct about the hot mushroom.
CP-09 is a tuner pedal
CP-13 Super Chorus
CP-14 English Man is a Marshall Plexi amp distortion
CP-15 Tantrum is a Boss MT-2 Metal Zone EQ with other metal distortion
CP-17 Time Space delay reverb
CP-19 Blue Ocean delay – analog bbd
CP-21 Rock Face distortion is a Marshall Plexi distortion a la wampler plexidrive, with JTM speaker distortion qualities
CP-26 Snake Bite reverb
CP-27 Sand Storm distortion
CP-28 Ultra Chorus
CP-29 White Heat Mixing boost is “heavily influenced by” the DOD 250 Classic Overdrive Pre
CP-30 Red Devil distortion – (Wampler Triple Wreck?)
CP-31 Hot Spice – micro Jim Dunlop Crybaby wah
CP-32 Clear Veil Overdrive – is a fuzz and overdrive
CP-34 Head Room Vintage Distortion
CP-36 Big Dipper pitch shift/octave/detune
CP-37 Drifter Seven – 7mode digital delay w/analog emu
CP-38 Lucky Seven – 7mode digital fx flanger/phaser/tremolo/vibrato/detune/Roland jazz amp chorus(?)/Uni-Vibe chorus
CP-41 Ghost Rain – delay and reverb
CP-43 Pegasus is a Klon Centaur clone
tCP-46 Fuzzy Bear is a Dallas Arbiter Fuzzface but has BC549’s instead of Germanium transistors or the Silicon BC-108’s
CP-47 Pressure Tank compressor
CP-49 Midlander is an Ibanez Tubescreamer with RC4558 ICs
CP-50 Central Station Leon Drive – Fulltone OCD distortion
CP-54 Big Orange Crushing Overdrive is also an Xotic BB clone, i believe
the newer Grizzly Bear or something pedal is another Fuzzface clone…
CP-55 Central Station American Sound is a Fender gain channel and tonestack