EarthQuaker Devices Dunes OPERATION MANUAL

Dunes

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Way back in 2014, we did something we said we would never
do. We made a Tubes Creamer. But we didn’t make just any old
TS-808 clone - we made the Palisades™, the end-all, be-all of
transparent mid-boosting overdrives. A Mega Ultimate Overdrive,
if you will.

Lurking inside that massive bedazzled enclosure was every
conceivable 808 mod under the sun. And a second gain channel.
And a clean boost. We did our rightful duty to you, the musician,
by offering you true Freedom of Choice to mix and match clipping

diodes and capacitors as you see t in order to develop your own

unique overdriven voice. And you did. All except those few spuds
in the back who said to us, “But EarthQuaker Devices, we want
Freedom from Choice!” And so we listened. We made a Mini Mega
Ultimate Overdrive.

The Dunes™ is a condensed take on our highly popular Palisades
“808-style” overdrive. We’ve stripped away all the glitz and glamour
of the original Palisades, leaving only the bare essentials required
for a rippin’ mid-boosting transparent overdrive. It has all the great

tone of the grown-up Palisades but with a simplied interface and

a smaller footprint!

The Dunes features the same Gain, Tone and Level controls as the
Palisades, along with our favorite voice and bandwidth settings, as
well as the “Normal / Bright” toggle.

The selectable clipping Voices are: “MOSFET” for a tight crunchy
sound (Palisades’ Setting 3); “Silicon” Asymmetrical clipping for
tighter light gain OD closest to the classic 808 sound (Palisades’
Setting 4), and “None,” which goes from clean boost to gritty, pure
op-amp distortion with a massive volume boost (Palisades’ Setting

1).

The two Bandwidth settings are “stock” for the classic tone
(Palisades’ Setting 3) and “full range” for more low end (Palisades’
Setting 5).

Each and every Dunes is true-bypass, uses silent relay-based
switching, and is built one-at-a-time in sandy Akron, Ohio, USA.

Controls

Gain: Adjusts the drive, dirtier clockwise, cleaner counter-clockwise

Tone: Brighter clockwise, warmer counter clockwise

Level: Sets the output level

Normal/Bright: Normal is a warm full tone, Bright is livelier tone

with more chime

Bandwidth: Left is brighter with more emphasis on the mids, Right
is full range for more low end

Voice: MF- MOSFET diode clipping, N- No diode clipping, Si­Silicon diode clipping

Power

The Dunes should be powered by a standard 9-volt DC power
supply with a 2.1mm negative center barrel. We always recommend

pedal-specic, transformer-isolated wall-wart power supplies or

multiple isolated-output supplies. Pedals will make extra noise if
there is ripple or unclean power. Switching-type power supplies,

daisy chains and non-pedal specic power supplies do not lter

dirty power as well and let

voltages!

Current Draw: 30mA
Input impedance: 500K
Output impedance: 1K

Switching

This device is true bypass and uses electronic relay based switching. Audio will not
pass without power.

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

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through unwanted noise. Do not run at higher

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