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.

Great sounds, easy to dial in what you’re looking for. Three different and distinct modes make it really flexible. Tone control has a wide sweep, not too mid-forward.

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.

I have had countless distortion/OD/fuzz pedals over the years (Rats, Tube Screamers, Big Muff, Danelectro 3699, Fulltone pedals (OCD, Fulldrive, Ult Octave, Boss pedals, DOD pedals, Maxon, you name it). This pedal is easily among the best and the most versatile. It has 3 gain modes, asymmetrical, symmetrical and a boost mode. I have yet to decide which of the higher gain modes I like (but I am leaning towards #3) and I honestly don't use the boost mode all that much. Both gain modes are very responsive to my guitar volume and when used to boost my Fulltone Fulldrive it give it a whole new level of grit. If I would fault this at all, its the fact that the volume between all 3 modes are SO out of balance. I don't understand why the designers did not try to fix this (because they obviously knew of it) Having said that, I still love this pedal and the added bonus which makes it an absolute steal. HIGHLY recommended!

this pedal screams thats all i can say, im new in pedals so i discover Plumes is better run after noise gate to fx loop. cuz if i run it before the noise gate to fx loop, no changes in sound. so what i did i run my 805 before the noise gate and plumes after the noise gate. its like a very very heavy tone that its still tamed but very loud. chug so crispy nite that both are overdrive. lucky my noise gate Silencer work so fantastic i cant even hear any noise. unfortunately i returned the plumes cuz i though i dont really need it but now i missed it and regret it i even bought that for $89 on sale. now i want one cuz i really missed that tone it brings with my 805. its a Screaming destroyer!

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!

This pedal is awesome and worth the price. Sometimes I dial it back and use it like a boost/overdrive and sometimes I just let it rip. Sounds rad

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