EarthQuaker Devices Gray Channel 2-channel Overdrive/Distortion Effects Pedal

TheGray Channel is a real “twofer” of an overdrive. It is based around aclassic hard-clipping gray box overdrive (subtle hint, huh), one of myall-time favorites. Coincidentally, this is the very same pedal thatgot me started building pedals and launched EQD. It is two channels ofa simple hard clipping overdrive that leaves the character of theguitar and amp intact. The Gray Channel retains the classic warmoverdrive sound and expands upon it with several clipping options andbigger bass response. Each channel has 3 clipping modes. The Greenchannel- “Si” (Silicon clipping diodes), “Ge” (Germanium clippingdiodes) and “N” (no clipping diodes). The “Si” mode will bebright/loud/fuzzy and has a natural tube type break up. “Ge” mode is alittle looser with more lows and warmth and less output. “N” mode actsas a clean boost until you hit roughly 1 o’clock on the gain, at whichpoint it’ll start to saturate the op amp into a biting, louddistortion. Phew! Still with me? Cool, onto the modes of the Redchannel. Here, you’ve got “LED” (LED clipping diodes), “FET” (Mosfetclipping diodes) and “N” (again, no clipping diodes). “LED” mode is theloudest, cleanest and most touch sensitive/least compressed. “Mos” modeis the most compressed with a tighter crunch; the biggest hesher of thegroup. And finally, the “N” mode is the same clean to crazy loud op ampdistortion set-up as the Green channel. With a couple of switch clicksyou can go from your bypassed tone to warm break up to over-the-topgnarly grind and any/every combination in between. With more and moredrive pedals moving onto already crowded pedal boards, having the GrayChannel dual overdrive is like, totally crucial for sonic growth andsustain. Join the fight to stop pedal board overcrowding, becausebefore we can overdrive tomorrow, we must first drive today... orsomething. Each Gray Channel is built one at a time, part by gorgeouspart at a former automotive paint factory by a bunch of smokestacks ona dead end street in Akron, Ohio.

• It’san envelope filter that is voltage-controlled.
• Ituses the usual controls, with Up Sweep, Down Sweep as well as Sampleand Hold modes.
• Range,Resonance and Filter controls allow you to emphasise filter sweeps inthe Up and Down modes.
• Funkin a box and then some!