Earthquaker Devices Dunes

The Dunes is a condensed version of our highly popular Palisades; a heavily featured take on the classic 808 overdrive. It features the same Gain, Tone and Level controls along with our favorite voice and bandwidth settings as well as the “Normal/Bright” toggle. The selectable voices are: “MOSFET” for a tight crunchy sound (Setting 3 on the Palisades), “Silicon” for the classic 808 sound (Setting 5 on the Palisades) and “None” which goes from clean boost to gritty, pure opamp distortion with a massive volume boost (Setting 1 on the Palisades). The two bandwidth settings are “stock” for the classic tone (Setting 3 on the Palisades) and “full range” for more low end (Setting 5 on the Palisades). The Dunes has all the great tone of the big boy Palisades but with a simplified interface and a smaller footprint!

Controls

Gain: Adjusts the drive, dirtier clockwise, cleaner counter-clockwise

Tone: Brighter clockwise, warmer counter-clockwise

Level: Sets the output level

Normal/bright: Normal is a warm full tone, bright is livelier tone with more chime

Bandwidth: Left is brighter with more emphasis on the mids, right is full range for more low end

Voice: MF-MOSFET diode clipping, N-No diode clipping, Si-Silicon diode clipping

Measures

4.625″ x 2.5″ x 2.25″ 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 10 mA.