Beautiful example of this long discontinued pedal from earthquaker, made with rare germanium diodes and transistors. The sound is similar to a treble booster but more mid range and has gooey dynamics. Stacking with various other pedals and amps it makes everything sound more vintage. Maxing out the drive sounds like a germanium fuzz face when rolling back the guitar volume pot a smidge. This is also one of the coolest looking pedals from earthquaker with its see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil black skeletons on a sparkly deep crimson finish, making any pedalboard look that bit more sinister. A fine addition to any collection.

Please read below for description and specs from the manufacturer.

The Crimson Drive is a cutting and dynamic overdrive designed around a single germanium transistor and vintage germanium diodes. It creates a very open tone with excellent harmonics and a pleasing raw grit that can't be duplicated with more common FET or opamp based overdrives. With a simple twist of the gain control, the Crimson Drive can go from a gritty Rangemaster style treble boost to a rattling overdriven sound that is reminiscent a vintage plexi style amp at full bore. Works great with single coils as well as humbuckers and has excellent clean up with your guitars volume control.

Upgrades from V1 include:

¢ Added Tone control
¢ Vintage black glass OC139 germanium transistors and germanium diodes
¢ Lower noise floor and improved power filtering

Measures
4.37 X 2.37 X 1.75 with knobs

Power
A standard 9 volt DC power supply intended for musical instruments with a negative center 2.1mm barrel. We strongly recommend a high quality power supply with isolated outputs and good filtering to avoid unwanted noise. Will also run off a 9v battery for you olde tymee types.

Controls

Drive: Controls the amount of gain
Tone: Rolls off high end by turning counter clockwise
Level: Controls the output