Earthquaker Devices Special Cranker
Earthquaker have always pushed the boundaries while retaining simplicity and versatility to all of their products. When the Speaker Cranker was discontinued a few years back it was a sad day for all Guitarkind!
EQD have now taken the legendary Speaker Cranker and expanded on it sonically and texturally, with the addition of Germanium Diode Clipping (along with the original Silicon Diodes), More Gain, More Output and sweepable tone! You can achieve everything from an almost clean boost to spongey-broken small amp heaven. The addition of Ge Clipping is something you never thought you needed, if the Si Clipping is to spikey (which rules btw), switch it over and you will find a smooth and bouncey feel with more sustain anda little more substance in the midrange. It is one of those pedals that you don't realise how good it really is until it's turned off.
Heres what EQD say!
The Special Cranker™ is an all-discrete analog distortion enhancement device designed to give your signal some extra grit and boost without drastically altering your tone and retaining all of the natural nuances and character of your amp. Think of it as sticking an extra preamp tube in your amplifier for more saturation. Single notes will blossom and bloom with rich harmonics and singing sustain with responsive, tube-like sag. Power chords will sound thicker and crunchier, a little more ragged around the edges. Complex chords will remain distinct and complex, as the Special Cranker is designed to preserve your tone’s integrity without muddying up the low-end or smearing the midrange.
The Special Cranker picks up where the beloved Speaker Cranker left off. It has the same spongy, dynamic, and touch-sensitive character of the original but with more gain, double the output volume (now with a user-friendly Level control), an added Tone control to shape your signal, and a diode selector switch featuring the original asymmetrical Silicon diodes as well as a hot, new Germanium diode option.
The More control goes from nearly clean to a medium gain overdrive when at maximum. This control adjusts the bias of the transistor, so you may hear a little noise as you turn the control. Don’t freak out; it’s totally fine. The gain characteristics are dependent on which diodes are chosen. When the Germanium diodes are selected, the Special Cranker delivers a softer, more rounded response with tamed highs and lower output, while the Silicon diodes add a brighter, more modern edge and higher output. Both are exceptionally responsive to playing dynamics and have excellent clarity. The Tone control gives the user full command over treble frequencies, cutting the highs when counterclockwise and adding a slight high frequency boost when turned clockwise. The Level control adjusts the output from nothing to nearly double at maximum.
Each and every Special Cranker is all-analog, true bypass, and built one-at-a-time by some serious experts in Akron, Ohio, USA – home of the best burgers on THIS Earth.
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Earthquaker have always pushed the boundaries while retaining simplicity and versatility to all of their products. When the Speaker Cranker was discontinued a few years back it was a sad day for all Guitarkind!
EQD have now taken the legendary Speaker Cranker and expanded on it sonically and texturally, with the addition of Germanium Diode Clipping (along with the original Silicon Diodes), More Gain, More Output and sweepable tone! You can achieve everything from an almost clean boost to spongey-broken small amp heaven. The addition of Ge Clipping is something you never thought you needed, if the Si Clipping is to spikey (which rules btw), switch it over and you will find a smooth and bouncey feel with more sustain anda little more substance in the midrange. It is one of those pedals that you don't realise how good it really is until it's turned off.
Heres what EQD say!
The Special Cranker™ is an all-discrete analog distortion enhancement device designed to give your signal some extra grit and boost without drastically altering your tone and retaining all of the natural nuances and character of your amp. Think of it as sticking an extra preamp tube in your amplifier for more saturation. Single notes will blossom and bloom with rich harmonics and singing sustain with responsive, tube-like sag. Power chords will sound thicker and crunchier, a little more ragged around the edges. Complex chords will remain distinct and complex, as the Special Cranker is designed to preserve your tone’s integrity without muddying up the low-end or smearing the midrange.
The Special Cranker picks up where the beloved Speaker Cranker left off. It has the same spongy, dynamic, and touch-sensitive character of the original but with more gain, double the output volume (now with a user-friendly Level control), an added Tone control to shape your signal, and a diode selector switch featuring the original asymmetrical Silicon diodes as well as a hot, new Germanium diode option.
The More control goes from nearly clean to a medium gain overdrive when at maximum. This control adjusts the bias of the transistor, so you may hear a little noise as you turn the control. Don’t freak out; it’s totally fine. The gain characteristics are dependent on which diodes are chosen. When the Germanium diodes are selected, the Special Cranker delivers a softer, more rounded response with tamed highs and lower output, while the Silicon diodes add a brighter, more modern edge and higher output. Both are exceptionally responsive to playing dynamics and have excellent clarity. The Tone control gives the user full command over treble frequencies, cutting the highs when counterclockwise and adding a slight high frequency boost when turned clockwise. The Level control adjusts the output from nothing to nearly double at maximum.
Each and every Special Cranker is all-analog, true bypass, and built one-at-a-time by some serious experts in Akron, Ohio, USA – home of the best burgers on THIS Earth.
