CHANDLER
LIMITED
GERMANIUM
DRIVE
Chandler Limited is most widely
known for its studio gear. Production
people
love
the
company’s
germanium preamps and equalizers
for their lively, vintage colored
sounds, which are a nice contrast
from much of the “transparent” pro
audio gear that is more common
today. Chandler also makes a handful
of guitar-specific products now,
including the Germanium Drive,
which packs a lot of what people
love about its Ge studio preamps
and DIs into stompbox form. This
pedal is much more a proper guitar
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TONE TALK //
preamp than a simple overdrive
pedal, and as such it can take some
tweaking to get it dialed in, but once
one gets the hang of the controls the
breadth of tones that can be gotten
from it is striking. The Germanium
Drive is absolutely bursting with
high end harmonics, and it can really
make any rig come alive with threedimensional complexity. This pedal
ain’t cheap, but if you can come up
with the cheese, it’s worth every
penny.
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