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Green Channel 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 Channel 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
Channel Switch:
Selects between
Red
and
Green
channels.
Activate Switch:
Turns the effect on and off.
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Welcome to your new dynamic dirt doubler! The Gray Channel
™
is a real “twofer” of an overdrive.
It is based around a classic hard-clipping gray box overdrive (subtle hint, huh), one of my all-time
favorites. Coincidentally, this is the very same pedal that got me started building pedals and
launched EQD. 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 opamp into a biting, loud distortion. Phew!
Still with me? Cool, onto the modes of the
Red
channel. Here, 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.
FET
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 opamp distortion setup 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. Each Gray Channel is built one at a time, part-by-gorgeous-part at a
former automotive paint factory by a bunch of smokestacks on a dead-end street in Akron, Ohio.
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