Tech 21 Double Drive 3X Programmable

Tech 21 Double Drive 3X Programmable

This unique pedal design captures
the lush, muscular power amp
distortions of both Class A and Class
A/B tube amps. The tones can be
used individually or you can feed one
into the other for massive cascading
distortion and limitless tonal variation.
The 100% analog Double Drive 3X is a
3-channel, fully programmable version
of its single channel predecessor
and features active 3-band EQ. The
expanded tone section gives you even
greater flexibility to create incredible
and original tones. You can store three
custom sounds, even on the fly, by simply tweaking the knobs and double-tapping on a footswitch. How easy is that? And, with both Drives at minimum, you can program a clean boost up to 10dB for blazing solos.

Sometimes more is more.

DRIVE A controls the amount of Class A power amp output stage distortion (like Vox AC30-style amp), rich in even harmonics. The amount of harmonics is dynamically controlled by the input level and their ratio by how hard you pick.

DRIVE A/B controls the amount of Class A/B power amp output stage distortion (like Fender/Marshall-style amps), rich in odd harmonics.

The signal path of Drive A runs into the signal path of Drive A/B. This results in an electronic multiplication, rather than addition, of the amount of distortion to achieve a cascading effect.