Chandler Limited, Germanium Drive, guitar pedal

Germanium Drive

The Germanium Drive is really a germanium pedal like none you've used before. It has all the tone and color you would expect from a germanium but none of the mud and none of the fat - only an intense colored germanium tone.

This pedal was inspired by our Germanium pre amps and our work with other germanium amplifiers, but has even more to it. The five feedback selections on the Germanium Drive modify the tone, harmonic distortion and clipping of the pedal and offer a nice range of uses from tighter, lightly driven to slightly fuzzy, to full on germanium hell!

NOTE ON POWER: Requires a power supply with isolated outputs, such as VooDoo Labs pedal power, or two 9 volt batteries; MXR DC Brick is non-isolated and is not compatible. 

VIDEOS

HEARD ON

Avett Brothers – The Carpenter

Grammy Nominated Album: Curve Bender on Mix Bus, TG1 Limiter, Little Devil Pre-Amp, Germanium Tone Control, Germanium Drive, Little Devil Colored Boost (Ryan Hewitt)

Germanium Drive & Little Devil Colored Boost Guitar Pedals

The latest Jason Mraz, Alanis Morissette, Keaton Henson and Plain White T's records. (Joe Chiccarelli)

Alanis Morissette – Guardian – Single

Guitars - Germanium Drive

USERS

Phil X
Lyle Workman
Michael Landau
Ritchie Sambora

( Bon Jovi )

Interpol
Steve Stevens

( Billy Idol )

Joe Chiccarelli

Producer, Engineer, Mixer ( The White Stripes, The Strokes, The Raconteurs, Alanis Morrisette, Jason Mraz, U2, Elton John, Beck, Etta James, Rufus Wainright, Frank Zappa, The Killers, Counting Crows, Tori Amos)

Ryan Hewitt

Producer, Mixer, Engineer (Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Avett Brothers, Blink-182, Tom Petty, The Lumineers, Bob Dylan)

Blink 182

TESTIMONIALS

Greg A, Los Angeles

"Any guitar player who doesn't use one of these is an idiot!"

Mark Gustafson (FOH Cheap Trick)

"I recently had the good fortune to visit Chandler and try Wade's new pedals. I'm a little at a loss for words, but I will do my best to describe my initial reactions. First off, the quality is what you would expect from Chandler and that is nothing short of the best (and I was playing on a prototype!). I will say for both they seem incredibly transparent. I do not hear a stomp box between the guitar and the amp but rather it brings out new sounds, textures, and character (it is a Chandler product after all). I tried it on a few vintage low- watt amps, a Marshall, and an AC30. These boxes were so flexible they could bring out the best qualities of each combination of amp and speaker. They are so dialed in, it's simple. After finding a preset that works with your amp, you have further options of sculpting the tone using feedback drive and boost range. The Germanium is fat and smooth as you may expect while the Little Devil (my favorite) is aggressive and can get almost squishy if you push it that much. They bring tone to the next level. To sum it all up, these are so much more than just boost pedals, they are tone enhancers."

Joe Chiccarelli

"Pretty impressive and unique pedals. The workmanship is quite impressive. They are totally unique sounding. They give everything a very '70s plexi Marshall type of tint. They have been especially effective feeding into an AC30. I love them on keyboards. The Little Devil seems a bit more versatile but the Germanium has a very unique sound. In tone it was amazing with a Nord Lead or even a synth organ tone. Great work. Totally amazing sound as always."

John Paterno

"I got to try both the Little Devil and the Germ pedals last week . . . they were super fun to play through!! The Devil got into some great rock tones, and as the rotary knob was turned the tone started to 'give' in a cool way -- kind of like compression but not quite. The Germanium felt like it was very easy to get great solo sounds that really sang. Really made me want to play guitar all night!"

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Circuit Type Solid-state, Germanium Transistor
Channels Mono
Feature Set Drive
Feedback
Highs
Boost Range
Bypass, True
I/O 1/4" mono
Power 2x 9-volt “BOSS” style power supplies or two 9-volt batteries