Wade called this pedal a Colored Boost for a reason! It’s not a clean boost, but it’s not a fuzz either. The Little Devil Colored Boost can gently color your Fender or drive your old Marshall into oblivion.
The soul of the Colored Boost is the Class A amplifier design and the selectable Feedback/Bias control. The six presets range from slightly fuzzy to a “in your face” plexi sound. Each preset has its own style of harmonic distortion and clipping, with different effects on a sine wave signal. Soft clipping; hard clipping; clipping on the top, bottom or both sides of a sine wave; and significant changes in frequency happen with each click of the Feedback/Bias switch. Capable of 39db of boost, the Colored Boost can easily range from gentle sustain to screaming vintage.
The soul of the Colored Boost is the Class A amplifier design and the selectable Feedback/Bias control. The six presets range from slightly fuzzy to a “in your face” plexi sound. Each preset has its own style of harmonic distortion and clipping, with different effects on a sine wave signal. Soft clipping; hard clipping; clipping on the top, bottom or both sides of a sine wave; and significant changes in frequency happen with each click of the Feedback/Bias switch. Capable of 39db of boost, the Colored Boost can easily range from gentle sustain to screaming vintage.
The Germanium Drive is really a germanium pedal like none you've used before. It has all the tone and color you would expect from germanium but none of the mud and none of the fat – only an intense colored germanium tone.
This pedal was inspired by our Germanium preamps and our work with other germanium amplifiers, but has even more to it. The five feedback selections on the Germanium Drive modify the tone, harmonic distortion and clipping of the pedal and offer a nice range of uses from tighter, lightly driven to slightly fuzzy to full on germanium hell!
This pedal was inspired by our Germanium preamps and our work with other germanium amplifiers, but has even more to it. The five feedback selections on the Germanium Drive modify the tone, harmonic distortion and clipping of the pedal and offer a nice range of uses from tighter, lightly driven to slightly fuzzy to full on germanium hell!
"Any guitar player who doesn't use one of these is an idiot!"
—Greg A, Los Angeles
"I received the Little Devil Colored Boost this afternoon. Dude, this thing is so much better than anything else on the market, I'm beside myself. I've been playing and recording for well over 30 years and I have never heard a pedal wakeup an amp like this. Seriously, well done! Your other pedal is on order, and I can't wait until it gets here. I really wish you the best of luck selling a million of these. My wife came in after a few minutes and said, "What did you change? Your guitar sounds great!" Ha! Thanks again, Wade, you've made an amazing musical device! I couldn't be happier with it."
—Steven Dembroski
"I was looking for great fuzz guitar and bass on some recent projects and this thing just nailed it. I have a dozen boutique fuzz pedals and I went through several to try and get the sound we were looking for and, in each case, tried the Devil last and it just obliterated the others. Amazingly, there's nuance to the distortion and it allows the player's articulation to really poke through the wall of sound. Even with the simple controls, it's highly versatile in attitude and voicing."
—Ryan Hewitt (Avett Brothers, Red Hot Chili Peppers)
"I recently had the good fortune to visit Chandler and try Wade's new pedals. I'm a little at a loss for words, but I will do my best to describe my initial reactions. First off, the quality is what you would expect from Chandler and that is nothing short of the best (and I was playing on a prototype!). I will say for both they seem incredibly transparent. I do not hear a stomp box between the guitar and the amp but rather it brings out new sounds, textures, and character (it is a Chandler product after all). I tried it on a few vintage low- watt amps, a Marshall, and an AC30. These boxes were so flexible they could bring out the best qualities of each combination of amp and speaker. They are so dialed in, it's simple. After finding a preset that works with your amp, you have further options of sculpting the tone using feedback drive and boost range. The Germanium is fat and smooth as you may expect while the Little Devil (my favorite) is aggressive and can get almost squishy if you push it that much. They bring tone to the next level. To sum it all up, these are so much more than just boost pedals, they are tone enhancers.
—Mark Gustafson (FOH Cheap Trick)
"Pretty impressive and unique pedals. The workmanship is quite impressive. They are totally unique sounding. They give everything a very '70s plexi Marshall type of tint. They have been especially effective feeding into an AC30. I love them on keyboards. The Little Devil seems a bit more versatile but the Germanium has a very unique sound. In tone it was amazing with a Nord Lead or even a synth organ tone. Great work. Totally amazing sound as always."
—Joe Chiccarelli
"I got to try both the Little Devil and the Germ pedals last week . . . they were super fun to play through!! The Devil got into some great rock tones, and as the rotary knob was turned the tone started to 'give' in a cool way -- kind of like compression but not quite. The Germanium felt like it was very easy to get great solo sounds that really sang. Really made me want to play guitar all night!"
—John Paterno
—Greg A, Los Angeles
"I received the Little Devil Colored Boost this afternoon. Dude, this thing is so much better than anything else on the market, I'm beside myself. I've been playing and recording for well over 30 years and I have never heard a pedal wakeup an amp like this. Seriously, well done! Your other pedal is on order, and I can't wait until it gets here. I really wish you the best of luck selling a million of these. My wife came in after a few minutes and said, "What did you change? Your guitar sounds great!" Ha! Thanks again, Wade, you've made an amazing musical device! I couldn't be happier with it."
—Steven Dembroski
"I was looking for great fuzz guitar and bass on some recent projects and this thing just nailed it. I have a dozen boutique fuzz pedals and I went through several to try and get the sound we were looking for and, in each case, tried the Devil last and it just obliterated the others. Amazingly, there's nuance to the distortion and it allows the player's articulation to really poke through the wall of sound. Even with the simple controls, it's highly versatile in attitude and voicing."
—Ryan Hewitt (Avett Brothers, Red Hot Chili Peppers)
"I recently had the good fortune to visit Chandler and try Wade's new pedals. I'm a little at a loss for words, but I will do my best to describe my initial reactions. First off, the quality is what you would expect from Chandler and that is nothing short of the best (and I was playing on a prototype!). I will say for both they seem incredibly transparent. I do not hear a stomp box between the guitar and the amp but rather it brings out new sounds, textures, and character (it is a Chandler product after all). I tried it on a few vintage low- watt amps, a Marshall, and an AC30. These boxes were so flexible they could bring out the best qualities of each combination of amp and speaker. They are so dialed in, it's simple. After finding a preset that works with your amp, you have further options of sculpting the tone using feedback drive and boost range. The Germanium is fat and smooth as you may expect while the Little Devil (my favorite) is aggressive and can get almost squishy if you push it that much. They bring tone to the next level. To sum it all up, these are so much more than just boost pedals, they are tone enhancers.
—Mark Gustafson (FOH Cheap Trick)
"Pretty impressive and unique pedals. The workmanship is quite impressive. They are totally unique sounding. They give everything a very '70s plexi Marshall type of tint. They have been especially effective feeding into an AC30. I love them on keyboards. The Little Devil seems a bit more versatile but the Germanium has a very unique sound. In tone it was amazing with a Nord Lead or even a synth organ tone. Great work. Totally amazing sound as always."
—Joe Chiccarelli
"I got to try both the Little Devil and the Germ pedals last week . . . they were super fun to play through!! The Devil got into some great rock tones, and as the rotary knob was turned the tone started to 'give' in a cool way -- kind of like compression but not quite. The Germanium felt like it was very easy to get great solo sounds that really sang. Really made me want to play guitar all night!"
—John Paterno
