EarthQuaker Devices Plumes Small Signal Shredder Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal

This is an excellent pedal and extremely versatile. When I first put it on my pedal board, I used it in the right mode (clipping blended with amp tone) and set the gain at just past noon. I play mostly with a telecaster these days and it is perfect with that setup for blues. Lately, I find that I like to keep the Plumes in the boost function (middle mode) to drive my amp/and add color. The tone on this pedal is unique. It adds clarity and volume without being shrill. The full range is useful. It is also great for driving other pedals or the drive channel of an amp. I like to use a compressor into the Plumes to push a plexi pedal or any other gain setting. Using a guitar with humbuckers really pushes the pedal and produces a clear and articulate distortion. The Plumes may be a bit bright for some people but I don't like a dark and muddy sound. It basically makes whatever you have sound better. I keep it on most of the time now. Highly recommend.

Yes, this is Jamie's take on a tube screamer, but it is not all that close to a tube screamer. The tone knob is usable throughout its entire sweep. Counterclockwise gets you closer to your dry tone; clockwise increases the mids/highs and cuts low end. The pedal has 3 clipping options. In the middle is no clip--just pure volume and power. This is outstanding for using this pedal as a boost. Combine that with the tone and gain, you have a super powerful overdrive/boost that can turn any of your existing gain pedals--or your amp--into a saturated, harmonic beast. The other clipping options turn the plumes into an overdrive that's useful on its own. I'm not a big tube screamer guy, but the plumes really does a lot. Plus, it's $99 new. That's insane in the world of boutique guitar pedals. In closing, if you haven't been happy with the dirt pedals you have, get the plumes and breathe new life into your rig.

The Plumes has found a definite home on my board. The options provided with the toggle are definitely unique in their own right and allow the pedal to take on a completely different tonal palette in each mode. Use this on a blues board with a 335, along with a blues driver and can't get enough of the sound on it's own or stacked with the blues driver.

Just received the Plumes pedal today after watching all the videos on You Tube and all I can say is the Hype is real. Love this pedal. There are no bad settings on this pedal. All the 3 modes just sound fantastic. Mode 1 gives you a great crunchy old school amp sound. Mode 2 a clean boost that can also make a driven amp scream and finally mode 3 for that beloved tube Screamer 808 without losing any low and high end with the mid push.The clarity and dynamics I am getting are just great. Stacks great with other pedals as well. Built like a tank and the soft switch is a great touch with the option of the one touch release. Sounds fantastic on all my amps and different guitars.What's not to like? Great price and lifetime warranty 😃👍

First, this thing is incredibly loud. I keep the level well below 12 o'clock, generally, if I'm switching it on and off rather than leaving it on all the time. I crank the gain to the max. I put it on the middle setting (which is a clean boost with a Strat or Tele, a little gritty with humbuckers) and put it on top of my amps' (tube and solid state) distortion, where it adds crunch and more importantly brightens, focuses, clarifies and in effect "shines up" the tone. Individual strings ring clearer in chords; leads cut a bit better. The other two settings sound fine feeding into a clean amp, but they're not going to provide brutal sounds, if that's what you're looking for. With the drive cranked, it's kind of middleweight distortion with HBs, and light distortion with SCs. Again, the sounds are nice and musical, but nothing extremely special to my ears. I haven't experimented very much with these settings as boosts. That is because I'm so pleased with the clean boost setting. I can see this being permanently on my board, permanently switched on. To me, the Plumes is way more useful than some better known boost/ODs.

Absolutely killer pedal that takes that tubescreamer sound and runs with it. There’s a reason why it’s on everyone’s board.

Well, well, well. It is so nice to find a pedal that is actually useful and extremely musical. I have used so many overdrives over the years, and this is one of the best if not THE best. The three available settings each have different attributes and are equally useful, but I have found the middle setting to be my go-to, as this setting really fattens and lifts up the signal. This makes for a very useful lead-guitar tone, and you can really tell that it is doing the job of getting you over the din of the band. Lastly, this pedal is actually quite loud! Unlike a lot of other overdrives, the volume knob on this pedal actually works and doesn't merely get lost among the other two knobs. This pedal is worth the $100. Go for it!

Playing guitar over 40 years. I use Orange and Mesa amps, good cleans and crunchy gain. Sometimes I just need a light OD on the clean channel. And I have tried dozens of ODs over the years. From the basic to boutique. All were OK, and sometimes I'd have to use 2 or 3 OD pedals on my board for different flavors. IMO, this pedal blows them all away, AND it has 3 very useable tones. What I love is the clarity/transparency with just the right punch...light, medium and heavy...but not fuzzy. Anything heavier and I switch to the gain channel on my amp. I can't believe the killer tones I'm getting from this pedal...for under $100! I'll try attach a pic. I put a small jewel over the LED (too bright white light!) and put a Gibson toggle on the micro toggle so I can actually see which mode I'm on. I love this pedal! Selling most of my old OD pedals now. Just sold my Landgraff on eBay for $700...lol. Yeah, this pedal is a keeper...my search is over.

EQD has done it again, brilliantly done pedal.

Sounds good, works nice. Happy times with this green little thingy.

already received fast delivery ang good packaging

Pedal excelente. Responsivo, som limpo, com muito headroom e sem excesso de médios. Excelente escolha para quem deseja um som estilo Tubescreamer poré, sem aquele som abafado, cheio de médios.

El pedal es súper versátil y los tres modos de clipping suenan muy bien, mete muy poco ruido a altas ganancias pero eso fácilmente lo cortas con un noise gate. Recomendado