Earthquaker Devices Plumes is an overdrive based around that classically overdone tube-like circuit you all know, and amps crave. While this particular circuit has been done to death, Plumes offers an original take on the old, tired dead horse everyone loves to beat on. You can’t get enough of it, so Earthquaker Devices are giving you some more. Doctor’s orders and what not….

For starters, they’ve done away with the sacred 4558 IC and the classic BJT transistor buffers and replaced them with JFET operational amplifiers and raised the input impedance to nearly 10 megaohms! This offers lower noise, better signal integrity and more chime in the high end. They power this OpAmp by taking the 9v input and internally converting it to +/- 9v to give it more headroom. The end result is a more three-dimensional tone with added clarity that really pushes a nice tube amp over the edge. You might notice how those badass leads you’re always ripping will blast over those awful, no good cymbals your drummer is constantly bashing around on. It sounds like diamonds…a million f**king diamonds!

Key Features:

• JFET op-amp-based overdrive with loads of headroom, chime, and clarity
• Makes a dirty amp sing with well-sculpted lows, focused mids, and ultra-clear highs
• Symmetrical LED clipping mode injects grind into your playing
• Wide-open op-amp clean boost pushes a clean amp into restrained breakup
• Asymmetrical silicon diode clipping produces a familiar yet transparent dirty boost
• Fine-tuned Tone knob is useful throughout its entire range
• Flexi-Switch enables the use of momentary- and latching-style switching simultaneously

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