The Dunes features the same Gain, Tone and Level controls as the Palisades, along with our favorite voice and bandwidth settings, as well as the “Normal / Bright” toggle.
The selectable clipping Voices are: “MOSFET” for a tight crunchy sound (Palisades’ Setting 3); “Silicon” Asymmetrical clipping for tighter light gain OD closest to the classic 808 sound (Palisades’ Setting 4), and “None,” which goes from clean boost to gritty, pure op-amp distortion with a massive volume boost (Palisades’ Setting 1).
The two Bandwidth settings are “stock” for the classic tone (Palisades’ Setting 3) and “full range” for more low end (Palisades’ Setting 5).
Each and every Dunes is true-bypass, uses silent relay-based switching, and is built one-at-a-time in sandy Akron, Ohio, USA.
Controls
Gain: Adjusts the drive, dirtier clockwise, cleaner counter-clockwise
Tone: Brighter clockwise, warmer counter clockwise
Level: Sets the output level
Normal/Bright: Normal is a warm full tone, Bright is livelier tone with more chime
Bandwidth: Left is brighter with more emphasis on the mids, Right is full range for more low end
Voice: MF- MOSFET diode clipping, N- No diode clipping, Si- Silicon diode clipping