The Doubleheader:
EarthQuaker
Devices
Gray
Channel
With the Gray Channel, EarthQuaker
Devices returns to the 250 after early
experiments resulted in the White
Light OD. Where the White Light
was effective but polite, the Gray
Channel hews closer to the 250’s
general demeanor and uses different
clipping options to accentuate different
elements of its character. Between the
two channels there are five different
clipping options; both sides offer a noclipping option, which, coincidentally,
is a great setting for a low-gain drive,
offering just a little more compression
than the 250 itself which is to say, in
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my book, the right amount. The Green
channel, like the Distortion3, offers
Silicon and Germanium clipping—the
former is classic 250, the latter is what
the Distortion+ used. The Red channel
offers LED and MOSFET clipping,
which are a little more rock monster-y.
With these options, the Gray Channel
offers a lot of flexibility while essentially
retaining the original 250’s no-brainer
interface. It also solves the problem of
whet her to use the 250 format as a lowgain or high-gain OD. The answer is:
both.
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