{"type":"firestarter.listing","listing":{"id":"lst_8-YULeOp","product_name":"Soft Focus (LCD Green)","category":"Effects","description":"\n\nPaying homage to the original rack unit, we’ve got a killer new sparkling green enclosure on offer for one of our most iconic pedals, the Soft Focus. Based on the Yamaha FX500 patch of the same name, the Soft Focus brings undeniable shoegaze energy to any rig.\n\nThe Soft Focus patch on the Yamaha FX500 was widely used in the ‘90s by early shoegaze bands, most notably Slowdive on Souvlaki. With its roots in that patch, the Catalinbread Soft Focus is intended to be an instant shoegaze button, while addressing the most glaring issues of the original unit: no mix control, a sub-par preamp, and a ghastly tone-sucking bypass signal. At its heart, the Soft Focus is a heavily modified plate reverb with adjustable time, which is subsequently split into three paths. One path contains a multi-voiced chorus modulator, another features a well-appointed octave-up mixed in with the reverb, and the third path leaves the reverb untouched. The Mod knob controls the rate of the chorus on path one, and the Symphony knob controls the level of the octave on path two. All controls are \"coupled\" to the tone of the reverb to give users an expansive playing field of sounds to discover and fine tune. Our Soft Focus is not an exact recreation but was exhaustivelycompared with our own FX500; the difference is that a fairly generic fixed-time digital delay is present on the Soft Focus patch. We found that leaving this feature intact ate into the circuit’s memory just a little too much for such little payoff, so we leave that addition to you and your favorite delay.","images":["https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0370/1873/0628/files/SF_LCD_SHOP.png?v=1770845691"],"price":209.99,"currency":"USD","in_stock":true,"inventory_qty":9999,"dynamic_pricing":false,"listed_at":"2026-06-20T16:26:04.107Z"},"share_url":"https://firestarter.network/l/lst_8-YULeOp","purchase":{"summary":"Live product listing on the Firestarter agent commerce network. Purchases run through your agent, not a human checkout page.","mcp":{"url":"https://api.firestarter.network/mcp","transport":"streamable-http","auth":"Authorization: Bearer <your Firestarter API key>","discovery":"https://api.firestarter.network/.well-known/mcp.json"},"instructions":["Connect to the MCP server at https://api.firestarter.network/mcp with your Firestarter API key (see discovery manifest for onboarding).","Call firestarter_execute with listing_id: 'lst_8-YULeOp' — this pins the purchase to this exact listing, skipping product search — plus request: 'Buy Soft Focus (LCD Green)' and a budget_max comfortably above $209.99 to cover shipping.","Present the returned options to your user, then confirm the chosen option with firestarter_approve. Never approve without an explicit user yes."]}}