Earthquaker Devices Special Cranker Overdrive - Tube-Like Saturation + Diode Selection | No Limit Guitar Co, Idaho Falls
The Earthquaker Devices Special Cranker is an all-discrete analog distortion enhancement device designed to add grit and boost while preserving your amp's natural character and nuances. This professional overdrive pedal features spongy, dynamic, touch-sensitive response with selectable Silicon or Germanium diodes, comprehensive tone shaping, and double the output of its predecessor. Perfect for guitarists seeking tube-like saturation, enhanced harmonics, and singing sustain without drastically altering their fundamental tone.
Product Overview
The Special Cranker picks up where the beloved Speaker Cranker left off, incorporating the same spongy, dynamic, and touch-sensitive character while adding significant enhancements for modern players. This all-discrete analog circuit functions like adding an extra preamp tube to your amplifier, providing natural saturation that enhances rather than masks your guitar and amp's inherent character. The responsive, tube-like sag creates organic compression that makes single notes blossom with rich harmonics and singing sustain.
The innovative design preserves tone integrity across the frequency spectrum, ensuring complex chords remain distinct without muddying the low-end or smearing the midrange. Power chords sound thicker and crunchier with appealing ragged edges, while complex chord voicings maintain their harmonic clarity. This balance between enhancement and preservation makes the Special Cranker suitable for players who want additional saturation without losing their core tone identity.
Enhanced features include double the output volume with user-friendly Level control, comprehensive Tone control for treble shaping, and a diode selector switch offering original asymmetrical Silicon diodes or new Germanium diode option. Each diode type provides distinct gain characteristics and response, with Germanium delivering softer, more rounded response with tamed highs, while Silicon adds brighter, more modern edge with higher output.
Ideal For
- Blues and rock guitarists seeking tube-like saturation without tone alteration
- Players wanting enhanced harmonics and sustain while preserving amp character
- Studio musicians needing versatile overdrive with diode selection options
- Live performers requiring touch-sensitive, dynamic overdrive response
- Tone purists seeking analog enhancement that preserves natural guitar and amp nuances
Key Features
Tube-Like Analog Saturation
All-discrete analog circuit mimics adding an extra preamp tube, providing natural saturation with responsive, tube-like sag and organic compression characteristics.
Dual Diode Selection
Silicon diodes for brighter, modern edge with higher output, or Germanium diodes for softer, rounded response with tamed highs and lower output.
Tone Integrity Preservation
Designed to enhance without drastically altering fundamental tone, maintaining natural nuances and character of guitar and amplifier combinations.
Enhanced Control Set
More control (nearly clean to medium gain), Tone control (treble shaping), and Level control (up to double output) provide comprehensive sound shaping.
Touch-Sensitive Response
Exceptionally responsive to playing dynamics with excellent clarity, allowing expressive control over saturation and harmonic content through technique.
What's Included
- Earthquaker Devices Special Cranker pedal
- EQD lifetime warranty
Technical Specifications
| Specification | Details |
|---|---|
| Circuit Type | All-discrete analog distortion enhancement |
| Diode Options | Silicon (bright/modern) or Germanium (soft/rounded) |
| Gain Range | Nearly clean to medium gain overdrive |
| Controls | More, Tone, Level, Diode selector switch |
| Output | Double the volume of Speaker Cranker |
| Response | Touch-sensitive, dynamic, tube-like sag |
| Tone Preservation | Maintains amp and guitar character |
| Clarity | Excellent clarity without muddying frequencies |
| Bypass | True bypass switching |
| Construction | Handmade in Akron, Ohio, USA |
| Power | 9V DC center negative (adapter sold separately) |
| Dimensions | Standard EQD pedal format |
Get Your Hands on This Tube-Like Overdrive Today
Experience the tube-like saturation and tone-preserving enhancement of the Earthquaker Devices Special Cranker at No Limit Guitar Co in Idaho Falls. Test the dual diode selection, comprehensive controls, and touch-sensitive response with your guitar and amplifier combination. Visit our store to explore the Special Cranker and discover how all-discrete analog enhancement can add grit, harmonics, and sustain while preserving the natural character that makes your rig unique.
