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EarthQuaker Devices - Gray Channel Dynamic Dirt Doubler Overdrive Pedal
Description
The Gray Channel is a real "twofer" of an overdrive. It is two channels of a simple hard clipping overdrive that leaves the character of the guitar and amp intact. The Gray Channel retains the classic warm overdrive sound and expands upon it with several clipping options and bigger bass response.
Each channel has 3 clipping modes. The Green channel- "Si" (Silicon clipping diodes), "Ge" (Germanium clipping diodes) and "N" (no clipping diodes). The "Si" mode will be bright/loud/fuzzy and has a natural tube type break up. "Ge" mode is a little looser with more lows and warmth and less output. "N" mode acts as a clean boost until you hit roughly 1 o'clock on the gain, at which point it'll start to saturate the op amp into a biting, loud distortion.
On the Red channel, you've got "LED" (LED clipping diodes), "FET" (Mosfet clipping diodes) and "N" (again, no clipping diodes). "LED" mode is the loudest, cleanest and most touch sensitive/least compressed. "Mos" mode is the most compressed with a tighter crunch; the biggest hesher of the group. And finally, the "N" mode is the same clean to crazy loud op amp distortion set-up as the Green channel. With a couple of switch clicks you can go from your bypassed tone to warm break up to over-the-top gnarly grind and any/every combination in between.
With more and more drive pedals moving onto already crowded pedal boards, having the Gray Channel dual overdrive is like, totally crucial for sonic growth and sustain. Join the fight to stop pedal board overcrowding, because before we can overdrive tomorrow, we must first drive today...or something.
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Controls:
* Channel Switch: Selects between Red and Green channels
* Activate Switch: Turns the effect on and off
* Green Controls:
- Gain: Adjusts the drive, dirtier clockwise, cleaner counterclockwise
- Green: Sets the output level when the green LED is lit.
- Toggle: Si- Silicon clipping, N- No clipping, Ge- Germanium Clipping
* Red Controls
- Gain: Adjusts the drive, dirtier clockwise, cleaner counterclockwise
- Red: Sets the output level when the red LED is lit.
- Toggle: LED- LED clipping, N- No clipping, FET- Mosfet Clipping
Specifications:
* Dimensions: 4.625 x 3.7 x 2.25 inches
* Power: EarthQuaker pedals take a standard 9 volt DC power supply with a 2.1mm negative center barrel. Pedal-specific, transformer-isolated wall-wart power supplies or multiple isolated-output supplies are recommended.
* Current draw: 14 mA
This device is true bypass and uses relay based soft touch switching. Audio will not pass without power.
