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SKU: EQDPAL2

Product Description

The EarthQuaker Devices Palisades takes the classic 808 overdrive formula and warps it beyond recognition! This transcends the classic overdrive category - it has to be heard to be believed!  

808 Classic Tone

There are many reasons why 808-style pedals are so popular; their ability to easily cut through a mix, give your guitar a strong midrange boost and emphasise its attack have made it a staple on most pedalboards.

Earthquaker have taken these killer characteristics and tipped them over the edge, providing you with a wealth of controls that'll allow you to truly mould your overdrive into whatever character you desire!

Two Channels, Lots Of Tone

The number of controls on this pedal might look confusing at first. You have 2 channels and a boost mode, as well as 5 different input capacitors to choose via the Bandwidth control, 6 different voices, and a few other voicing switches giving you over 400 switchable options. And that's before you even really start digging in to the regular Tone, Volume and Gain controls that are also on the front of the pedal!

Here's what EarthQuaker Devices say bout the Palisades V2 Overdrive:

The Palisades V2 is something EarthQuaker Devices said they would never do… an overdrive based on the legendary TS808! Gasp! The horror! Another tubescreamer?? Really?? Yes, but as with everything EQD, things are always pushed to the next sonic level. You’re not just getting a Tubescreamer. You’re getting ALL the Tubescreamers and then some in this behemoth of an overdrive that’ll give you everything from a comforting classic crunch to frantic fire-breathing walls of fuzz.

With 6 different clipping voices, 5 bandwidth settings and 2 gain channels you will be hard-pressed to not find a setting that will wipe every mid-boosting overdrive off your board. The clipping voices determine how transparent and open or tight and crunchy the distortion is. They will vary drastically depending on where the gain is set, what channel is active and how much bandwidth is being used. The bandwidth sets the frequency response of the distortion and goes from thin, light and clean through fat heavy and crunchy. It may very well be the single most important control the palisades has and what really sets it apart.

Gain A is a lower gain channel with a wider range of grit that is great for strumming open chords. Gain B is a higher gain channel with a tighter range that is great for palm muting and/or shredding solos. The Palisades also has a foot switchable volume boost with adjustable level to take it over the top when you want to throw your foot up on the monitor and rip your sweet leads… or maybe just push the front end of you amp a little harder. Not enough- How about a normal/bright switch to mix and match the overall tone to different amps and guitars. Still not enough- OK then, how about a buffer on/off switch to tighten up the tone and make it sparkle when set to "ON" or warm it up and make it sag when set to "OFF".

The Palisades is a versatile dude that will give you years of loving companionship. Each Palisades is hand made one at a time in the tiny tree house community of Akron, Ohio.

Features:

  • The ultimate overdrive pedal - Highly tweakable and refined take on the classic 808-style circuit
  • Nearly endless tonal combinations via the Voice and Bandwith selectors
  • New Flexi-switch - allows for traditional latching or momentary operation of Gain B and Boost
  • True bypass - Silent soft-touch switching
  • Analog dry-through
  • Top-mounted jacks - for effortless pedalboard implementation

Specifications:

Controls

  • Boost: Sets the level of the output boost.
  • Volume: Sets the output level.
  • Tone: Brighter clockwise, warmer counter clockwise.
  • Gain A: Sets the gain for the Channel A (lower gain)
  • Gain B: Sets the gain for Channel B (higher gain)

Foot Switches

  • Activate: True bypass switch
  • Gain B: Activates Gain Channel B
  • Boost: Activates the output level boost

Toggle Switches

  • Normal/Bright: Normal is a warm full tone, Bright is livelier tone with more chime.
  • Buffer: Turns the input buffer on or off. ON is a tighter and brighter tone while OFF is a warmer tone with more sag. The buffer is part of the drive circuit & is only available when the Palisades is activated.

Rotary Switches

  • Bandwidth: This sets the overall tone and gain structure of the Palisades. 1 is the thinnest setting with the least amount of gain and 5 is the fattest setting with the heaviest gain. Everything else is in between. This control has a major effect on all the settings of the Palisades, especially the gain and voice controls.
  • Voice: This sets the nature of the Palisades distortion by changing the clipping diodes. 1- No diodes: The most open and least distorted. 2- LED clipping: light clipping with a lot of volume. 3- Mosfet clipping: light gain OD with great harmonics. 4- Asymmetrical Silicon clipping: Tighter light gain OD closest to stock 808. 5- Symmetrical silicon clipping: tighter distorted tone. 6- Schottky Diode clipping: Looser fuzzy tone.

Measures

  • 5.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 with knobs.

Power

Our pedals take a standard 9 volt DC power supply with a 2.1mm negative center barrel. We always recommend pedal-specific, transformer-isolated wall-wart power supplies or multiple isolated-output supplies. Pedals will make extra noise if there is ripple or unclean power. Switching-type power supplies, daisy chains and non-pedal specific power supplies do not filter dirty power as well and let through unwanted noise. Do not run at higher voltages! Current draw is 30 mA.

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