Germanium Drive Manual
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1. ra 7 GERMANIUM DRIVE O J DESIGNED BY WADE CHANDLER GOEKE 5 6 7 a GC la AN 2 8 Nn 1 gt 2 I 1 P Nn p N 4 1 SMOOTH gt O BRICHT Germanium NY Drive BRIGHT Highs Boost Range CHANDLER LIMItED GERMANIUM DRIVE DOWNLOAD PDF AT O LS CHANDLERLIMITED COM SMOOTH N VERY s BRIGHT Germanium Drive BRIGHT Highs CHANDLER LIMItED ON Sa GERMANIUM DRIVE DESIGNED BY WADE CHANDLER GOEKE Boost Range SMOOTH aici Germanium o Drive BRIGHT Highs CHANDLER LIMItED 73 J st GERMANIUM DRIVE O Boost Range SMOOTH TN VERY i BRIGHT Germanium Drive BRIGHT Highs Boost Range CHANDLER LIMItED CN Nas J N GERMANIUM DRIVE EN Nrk DESIGNED BY WADE CHANDLER GOEKE SMOOTH MIDs BT Germanium Feedback HIGH Drive BRIGHT FULL Highs Boost Range CHANDLER LMItED FS ka 7 dt GERMANIUM DRIVE AN J DILE LIMUtED Please feel free to call our shop anytime for help or questions Prior to sending in your gear for repair please contact our shop at the number below We will assist you in troubleshooting the problem and if needed we will issue you an RMA to send in the gear Send repairs to Chandler Limited Inc Attention Repairs 222 S Cherry St Shell Rock IA 50670 Phone 319 885 4200 Email support chandlerlimited com CE Certification Chandler Limited de2. only to be disappointed and have an unusable tone Both pedals are designed to take the tone you have and get the most from it They are not clean boosts by any extent of the imagination but they are not meant to be soggy I might use this once every six months type of fuzz pedals either They are full colored Class A tone that are variable from slight fuzz to tight in your face plexi from sweet singing Tele to overdriven blues In the shop during testing we used a variety of classic and modern amps to assure we delivered in many situations from country blues and classic rock to full on metal and pop punk Here is a list of amps we used to test Selmer Stadium modded by wade Selmer TV12 Selmer Bassmaster early Treble n Bass 50 Marshall PA100 Marshall 1974x reissue Vox AC30 Vox AC10 Watkins Dominator Peavey 5150 early version Mesa Dual Rectifier early version Fender Champ blackface Matchless Chieftan Peavey Classic 20 Laney GH100 Park 100 watt Each amp takes the pedals in its own way and we found the pedals interacted with in subtle but interesting fashion loading each in its own way On modern high gain amps we found ourselves using less gain just to be able to kick the pedal on and pickup some of its flavor and tight tone CHANDLER LIMItED OPERATION IN connects to guitar bass or keyboard OUT connects to amplifier or other source such as computer input BYPASS SWITCH true bypass ful
3. READ BEFORE USING GERMANIUM DRIVE BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED The Germanium Drive pedal runs on any two To open any Chandler Limited pedal remove separate 9 VOLT BOSS style power supplies the four black screws on the sides DO NOT or two 9 VOLT batteries remove screws from the top of pedal Only use power supplies with the following polarity symbol H 0 Do Not DAISY CHAIN two plugs from one supply Y BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED PROPER CONNECTION 9 VOLT DC 9 VOLT DC POWER mm 3 POWER SUPPLY se SUPPLY gt o 4 s s p N p s SMOOTH MIDs TN VERY gt srant Germanium Feedback HIGH Drive LIMItED WHEN USING VOODOO LABS PEDAL POWER USE SEPARATE OUTPUTS DO NOT DAISY CHAIN FROM ONE OUTPUT USE CENTER NEGATIVE CABLES ONLY O PEDAL POWER 9 VOLT REGULATED DC OUTPUTS GEN I FEE ME SS CHANDLER 3 4 5 6 7 8 LIMItED i HANDLER LIMHED Germanium Drive Designed by Wade Chandler Goeke Chandler Limited Little Devil and the Little Devil Flame Logo are trademarks of Chandler Limited Inc All rights reserved The Little Devil Colored Boost and Germanium Drive pedals as with most Chandler products were designed to fill a need and a sound I had in my own head I had become increasingly unhappy with my old amps needing more flexibility and that the pedals had could not do the job Too many times had put a pedal on my 4000 Marshall that had saved my whole life to get
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5. eyboards CHANDLER LIMItED HIGHs Sets the overall brightness of the pedal We found this useful when using amps of different sizes especially when combined with the range Small bright combos can be fine tuned easily or a muddy stack brightened up with a throw of the toggle FEEDBACK Selects the negative feedback of the circuit Negative feedback will change the gain frequency response clipping and harmonic distortion of pedal FEEDBACK 1 Fuzz type setting with minimal feedback Clipping is significant but soft on the top side of a sine wave with a very rounded and smooth character to the distortion The fuzzy tone also adds a good deal of low frequency to this setting and it is the thickest preset Distortion at full boost is around 52 Maximum gain about 35db FEEDBACK 2 Lots of top side clip Similar to 1 but with less fuzz Feedback is minimal Some low frequency is added but less than 1 Max gain is 37db and distortion at max is 36 FEEDBACK 3 Significant top clipping with slight bottom clip Max gain is 37db and THD is around 23 at max There is less low frequency than 1 or 2 and is a bit harder sounding Probably the most aggressive of all the presets as it combines minimal feedback with gentle clipping of both the top and bottom portions of a sine wave FEEDBACK 4 Takes characteristics of presets 3 and 5 The more aggressive sound of 3 but with the increased feedback of 5 gives a tight but very colored sound Less l
6. l bypass or hardwire bypass whichever term you like POWER The Germanium Drive pedal runs on any two separate 9 volt BOSS style power supplies or two 9 volt batteries Only use power supplies with the following polarity symbol Ce C Four screws on the side panel must be removed to change the battery Batteries not included BATTERY USE There are two battery clips on the inside of the unit Four screws on the side panel must be removed to change the battery Please use a phillips screwdriver with a proper fit to avoid stripping the screws Dimensions 5 7 x 3 45 GERM DRIVE This is the amount of gain you can select from the pedal Depending on the Feedback Bias setting you can get as much as 37db of boost The Colored Boost Control is not linear in its sound The pedals gets brighter as you boost more You will find it important to use the Boost Range in conjunction with boost to tailor your sound to your needs BOOST RANGE Select the frequency response of the pedal here This is at the beginning of the pedal circuit to keep the sound as focused as possible HIGHs Similar to old school treble boosters Just the high frequency is boosted MIDs A broader range treble boost adding in high mid range and just a touch of low mid range FULL The widest range boost Boost covers the low mid and into the low frequency We left out just enough of the lows to keep the sound tight This is also a great setting for bass and k
7. ow frequency than 1 or 2 bottom clip Max gain is 36 5db and THD is around 7 at max FEEDBACK 5 A good amount of feedback characterizes this preset Gain is low but tone is still very colored This is a good choice for players who want just a touch of color and boost in the sound Max gain 33db THD at max gain 7 SUGGESTED SETTINGS GERMANIUM DRIVE AGGRESSIVE IN YOUR FACE SMOOTH VERY i BRIGHT Germanium Drive SMOOTH SMOOTH SMOOTH VERY i VERY VERY O BRIGHT Germanium OQ BRIGHT Germanium O BRIGHT Germanium Drive Drive BRIGHT Drive BRIGHT Boost Range Highs BRIGHT BRIGHT Highs Boost Range Highs Highs Boost Range CHANDLER LIMItED CHANDLER LIMItED CHANDLER LIMItED CHANDLER LIMItED O O O O GERMANIUM GERMANIUM GERMANIUM GERMANIUM DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE O O O O DESIGNED BY WADE CHANDLER GOEKE DESIGNED BY WADE CHANDLER GOEKE NOTE BOOST RANGE MUST BE SET TO FULL FOR FUZZ RECALL SMOOTH ZN VERY i _ BRIGHT Germanium BRIGHT Highs Drive Boost Range CHANDLER LIMItED O N v GERMANIUM DRIVE C gt MA DESIGNED BY WADE CHANDLER GOEKE SMOOTH gt VERY 1 BRIGHT BRIGHT Highs Germanium Drive Boost Range CHANDLER LIMItED 3 EN he of GERMANIUM DRIVE CI O via AN t 8 ha 1 C i 2 J1 p N n vn SMOOTH TN VERY A O BRIGHT Germanium Drive BRIGHT Highs Boost Range CHANDLER LIMItED
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