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Great Eastern FX Co.

Design-A-Drive

Design-A-Drive

Regular price $265.00 USD
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Dimensions

Length: 4.9"
Width: 2.6"
Height: 2.2"

Specifications

Power: 9V DC Center Negative
Current: ~10mA

Flexible Gain Shaper

At last, from Great Eastern FX, an overdrive that loves all your guitars and amps equally! The DESIGN-A-DRIVE lets you play pedal designer, reshaping the circuit’s frequency response to suit your setup. With its unique ‘Width’ and ‘Edge’ controls, the Design-a-drive makes dialling in a wide range of killer drive tones completely intuitive. It’s an overdrive you can set to be as ‘transparent’ and true to your original tone as possible, or configure to do exactly the opposite, making single-coils sound thick and meaty or helping humbuckers really cut through.


There are plenty of overdrive pedals that sound great... provided you’re plugging into a particular style of amp or using the right guitar. Even though there’s a ‘Tone’ knob on the pedal, the frequency response is essentially baked in – it either suits your needs or it doesn’t. At the same time, pedals that offer more flexibility generally feature an abundance of controls and tend to be fiddly to dial in. Great Eastern FX set themselves  a challenge: to design an overdrive that was as flexible as possible while remaining really simple to use. That meant designing some new ‘Tone’ controls that would actually get at the parts of the frequency spectrum that matter.


Great Eastern FX's Design-a-drive’s EDGE and WIDTH controls are not based on a traditional amp tone stack or pedal EQ. Instead they combine multiple functions in one to offer genuinely intuitive and extremely effective tonal adjustment.

The Design-a-drive’s unique tone-shaping controls are quick and intuitive to set, yet powerful enough to reshape the character of the overdrive to suit any scenario.


EDGE controls the top end of the frequency spectrum, simultaneously adjusting two separate filters – a gentle treble roll-off and a more intense cut in the high presence region – as well affecting the aggressiveness of the circuit’s hard-clipping diodes. These three functions combine to do exactly what the name suggests, letting you dial in precisely the desired amount of bite, grit and brightness.


Like Edge, the WIDTH control does exactly what the name suggests. This six-position rotary switch reshapes the pedal’s mid-range response, progressively introducing a lower mid-range peak and adding more bass as you go from ‘Thin’ to ‘Fat’. This control lets you instantly sculpt your tone while also dictating where across the frequency spectrum your amp gets pushed.


Great Easter FX designed the GAIN and LEVEL controls to be equally useful and wide-ranging. With the gain turned down, there’s still plenty of level on tap, allowing the pedal to act as a powerful tone shaper and clean boost, on its own or stacked with other drives and fuzzes.Great Eastern FX Design-a-Drive features two unique controls (Edge & Width) designed for quick, intuitive and wide-ranging adjustment of your tone. Experiment with these controls to deliver an overdrive that's true to the original sound of your guitar and amp... or change it completely!

 

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Customer Reviews

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Noah P.
When 'Dialing In' Meets Design

I've had this pedal for a couple of weeks now, and it's going to be the first one I reach for in the foreseeable future. Why? The 'click-click-click' design of the Thin/Fat dial is a solution that I never realized most pedals had.

I'm a novice player at best. One of the most mystifying things about the tone/pedals/amps discussion for me has been when guitarists talk about dialing in a tone. For me, this pedal is designed in a way that makes knowing what I'm going to do to the sound when I turn a knob an easier task than in many other popular pedals in my collection, namely the Blues Driver or the Plumes.

The upshot is that with this pedal I'm spending less time tweaking knobs on my overdrive pedal, and more time exploring my other pedals.

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E.D.
Love it

Great sustain, great tone control, interesting gain structure. An album worth of options.

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P.K.
Awesome

Love being able to quickly and discreetly change tones mid gig without having to fine tune and dial in. Can go gnarly or transparent.

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N.
Good noises

Got one after watching a JHS video, this pedal has a very unique way of allowing you to change the type of distortion the fly. Very versital

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John
Simple to use and sounds great.

Transparent tone sculpting and plenty of drive on hand if needed. It's really easy and quick to dial in a great sound with any type of guitar. For reference I have a KOT, Talons, OCD, Archer and out of all of these great pedals this one, for me, might be the best yet. Truly remarkable. A keeper for sure.