The Chandler Germanium Drive is
really a germanium pedal like none you’ve used before. It has all the
tone and color you would expect from germanium but none of the mud and
none of the fat – only an intense colored germanium tone. This pedal was
inspired by Chandler’s Germanium preamps and their 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!
IMPORTANT READ BEFORE USING PEDAL
The Germanium Drive pedal runs on any two separate +9V power supplies.
When two separate supplies are connected to the pedal, one of the
supplies is routed inside the pedal to -9 volts. That is why the Germ
Drive cannot be daisy-chained from one power supply.
Most germanium-based pedals run on a -9 volt supply which cannot run on
the same supply as other pedals. The Chandler Germanium Drive is similar
in this regard.
Note: Do NOT daisy-chain the two plugs from one supply.
Note: Do NOT use one power supply polarized to -9.
