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I'm ready for mine!

Let me know when I can order

- Dave

They tell me I'll have chassis on the 25th of Nov (that's 10 days from now). Sooner than that we'll be setting up our paypal store on the website for orders and pre-orders. I'm gonna try and build and ship these out as quick as I can. Stay posted at:

www.sarnomusicsolutions.com

Thanks for all the interest and support. I just recorded John Horton from the Bottle Rockets today to create some sound samples of the Earth Drive. He played his P-90 Les Paul, my Jerry-Telecaster, and his really sweet Flying-V all thru my wife's '68 Deluxe Reverb with a Weber alnico speaker. Not exactly Jerry sounds, but killer guitar playing and sounds. I'll try to post some of the sound samples real soon.

Brad

A slight delay on the pedals. The metal fabrication company started a run of 50 last week, and the color came out way off from the sample we were going for. So they're re-running it with a totally different paint. Hopefully around the 15th of Dec or so we should have them. Everything else is ready to go.

Brad

An idea, run the 50 miss colors, and in 20 years they will be worth $1000 due to their "one of a kind" (or one of 50) mistake...

Hey, maybe you're onto something there!!! Limited edition, only 50 made!!

I guess that first it'll have to prove to be a super cool pedal that can stand out among the other gazillion freakin' overdrive pedals out there. I look forward to finding that out. It's a very big pond.

Brad

SarnoMusicSolutions wrote:Hey, maybe you're onto something there!!! Limited edition, only 50 made!!

I guess that first it'll have to prove to be a super cool pedal that can stand out among the other gazillion freakin' overdrive pedals out there. I look forward to finding that out. It's a very big pond.

Brad

So true. There are so many different overdrive pedals, it surprises me that more than 100 ever get made of any of them.

Actually, Boss likes to use yellow for their Dirt pedals and Orange for their Fuzzies. I can't keep up anymore.....

Here's the new color. Had trouble with an attempt at a hammertone color. Not only was the color off from what we expected, but the text graphic color ink wouldn't adhere to the hammertone, so we scratched that batch and are going for this. We do have it at our PayPal store on our site taking orders.

http://www.sarnomusicsolutions.com

Brad

I live for a sound sample!!! Thanks for keeping us posted.

What's really cool is that in that rendering you have the knobs positioned to the EXACT settings they need to be at to achieve Garcia nirvana!

Finally. The color came out a bit more teal than we planned for, but we'll work that out in the next run. But they're for real now. First one shipped out today.

Brad

I will order mine right after the new year.

So, don't give away secrets here, but......The Silicon diodes make a ton of the difference yes no? I always had a hard time believing that Jerry had Germanium in his Dist +?!?

Chris

I feel like the germanium in the Dist+ was what lets that pedal sound as natural and clean-ish as it does, where the guitar isn't smothered by the distortion overtones even when driven hard. Germanium is not always the best choice in a pedal, and it really depends on the circuit design and the harmonic content you're after. The Earth Drive is technically an "overdrive" pedal, and the Dist+ is techincally a "distortion" pedal. Different topologies and methods of clipping. Both silicon and germanium are great sounding when applied properly.

The silicon vs germanium issue was a MAJOR consideration in the design of the new Earth Drive.

Brad

SarnoMusicSolutions wrote:First one shipped out today.

SWEET! I love my wife. Brad - many thank for hooking her up. My only regret is that it didn't come signed with a big Serial Number 1 on the back. I told her I was sending it back for the autograph.

If my one year old wasn't sleeping right now, it would be cranked up to 11. Can't wait to try it.