Short Description:

Amp-Like High Gain with Unmatched Tone Shaping

What We Think:

The Seymour Duncan Palladium is a highly versatile amp-in-a-box overdrive designed to capture the feel, response, and tonal flexibility of a high-gain tube amplifier. Utilizing low-noise op amps and germanium clipping diodes, it delivers everything from rich classic rock crunch to saturated modern lead tones while maintaining impressive clarity and note definition. Extensive tone-shaping controls, including a fully adjustable midrange section, presence control, resonance circuit, and footswitchable boost, allow players to fine-tune their sound with remarkable precision. Responsive, powerful, and exceptionally adaptable, the Palladium is an inspiring choice for guitarists seeking authentic amp-like drive and professional-grade tonal control from a single pedal.

Manufacturer Description:

The Palladium Gain Stage is a high gain preamp and distortion effects pedal that captures the authentic feel and responsiveness of a high gain tube amp in a compact and tweakable stompbox.

By focusing beyond just the tonal characteristics of Palladium, we designed an innovative architecture that captures the full-bodied depth and character of rock and metal’s most iconic high gain tube amps. You can use it with a power amp or a clean guitar amp to create your ultimate high gain signature sound, and replicate your favorite classic and high gain amp tones. Or use it in front of a distorted amp to tighten up the attack for rhythms or to increase sustain and saturation for solos.

However you choose to use Palladium, we hope you hear and feel the impact of great tone, body and depth in your unique sound. Palladium features three gain stages: a gain stage to control the overall saturation, a resonance control for low frequency gain shaping, and a boost control that adds overdrive to the beginning of the signal path. These three gain stages allow for a versatile range of tones, from classic rock at lower settings to modern metal at higher gain settings.

The pedal also offers a comprehensive EQ, with bass, treble, presence and sweepable midrange-frequency control, so you can make Palladium sound perfect with any amp.

Specifications:

Type of circuitry: Low noise op amps and germanium clipping diodes

Bypass: True hard-wire bypass

Control Functionality:

Bass: Sets amount of bass boost or cut

Mid Level: Sets amount of mid frequency boost or cut

Mid Freq: Sets location of center frequency of mid boost or cut.

Treble: Sets amount of treble boost or cut

Presence: Sets amount of boost or cut above the treble frequency range

Level: Sets the output signal level

Gain: Sets the amount of gain at high frequencies from 42.5dB to 71dB

Resonance: Sets the amount of gain at low frequencies from 41.5dB to 66dB

Boost Knob: Sets the amount of additional gain provided by the Boost footswitch

Boost Footswitch: Engages the Boost function

Input Impedance: 500K ohms

Output Impedance: 2.8k ohms

Gain Range: 42.5dB to 71dB

Resonance Gain Range: 41.5dB to 66dB

Boost Gain: 25dB

Noise Referred To Input: <-124 dBV, 400 Hz to 20 kHz