“The Dunes, like the Palisades, is a Tube Screamer variant. Yet it
goes a step further from the original, adding a few extra features that
go a long way to matching your guitar and pickups, to your amp. The
knobs are familiar—Tone, Gain and Volume. In addition, there are three
toggle switches that really make things interesting:
Voice: Gives you three tonal differences; MOSFET, Silicon and Normal.
These options give you different levels of compression when adding gain,
and really change the overall character a lot. The Normal setting has
little to no compression if that is desired.
Normal/Bright: Works great when using either darker humbuckers—switch
to Bright, or if using single coils, keep it normal. Using the master
tone control in conjunction with this switch gives you a lot of useful
variation.
Bandwidth: What a traditional Tube Screamer lacks—here, the Dunes gives
you the option of adding a lot of deep low end—great for single coils,
or switch it back to the more traditional screamer mode, accentuating
the midrange, with less emphasis on the bottom end.“
PCB and schematic available on PedalPCB website here.
