GERMANIUM DISCRETE OP-AMP DISTORTION/FUZZ (demo art might be different, but the circuit is the same)
Almost a year in the making, The Gale is a complex and harmonically rich distortion/fuzz with custom-designed Germanium, discrete operational amplifier architecture that covers a huge range of distortion, drive, and fuzz tones. The unique shape control allows you change the way the clipping circuit behaves with high and low pass filters, making it super-interactive with the tone control. You can get some light-drive edge all the way to blistering fuzz.
Switchcraft Jacks
True Bypass
Enclosure printed and drilled in the USA
Hand wired and assembled in California
NOS Germanium transistors and diodes
Standard negative ground power
Controls
Top-mounted jacks, input on right, output on left
True-bypass stomp switch is on/off, indicated by LED
"Volume" controls the amount of output (a lot)
"Gain" controls the gain simultaneously in two discrete gain stages in the circuit for a wide sweep from light grit to full-on fuzz
"Tone" is a low-pass filter that is interactive with the Shape control
"Shape" controls the "high shelf" in the clipping amplifier which can "shape" the distortion characteristics to be more sharp and high passed or wooly and beefy.
Power
We always recommend isolated power supplies. If you daisy chain effects on one supply or use a low-quality product, you may inject noise, ripple, ground loop hum, etc. This effect requires 9v, center negative power. In other words, the industry standard power supply. Current draw: 4.5mA
Demo note: The old graphics feature the same circuit as the new, so don't be alarmed if the pedal in some of the demo videos does not look the same. It sounds the same!
