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Death By Audio Germanium Filter True Vintage Germanium Distortion Effects Pedal (black)
True Vintage Germanium Distortion
The Germanium Filter is Death By Audio's love letter to sticking a pencil in your speaker.
Start with a console-style drive circuit, add in a dash of obsolete germanium transistors and finish it off with a super intense DBA-style filter - BLAMO! You've got a sound heavy enough to crush on and sharp enough to slice a tomato.
The Filter control is extremely unconventional - it'll take you from bottomless, sub-woofered out lows to super searing and brittle highs, with a universe of tone in between. The Germanium Filter will help you find the sweet spot for your instrument in any situation - at a show, in the studio, or even stranded on the side of the highway after your tour van catches fire - hey, it happens!
The Gain knob starts with a dirty boost that then spans through saturated drive, spitting distortion, and a blistering fuzz tone. Get ready for your sound to be cranked up to infinity-and-a-half and captured on tape by the most incredible recording engineer you've ever heard - only there's no engineer and no studio. Just you, your guitar, your amp and the Germanium Filter.
Controls
Filter: Controls the frequency response of the pedal, featuring huge low end, scooped mids, and sharp, piercing highs.
Gain: Sweeps from mild overdrive to blasted-out fuzz. Very interactive with your guitar's volume control.
Volume (internal): Controls the overall output level of the pedal.
Specifications
Dimensions: 5" x 2.5" x 2.25" (including hardware).
Weight: 10.6 oz
Power: 9V (runs on standard 2.1mm negative center 9V adapter or included 9V battery).
Current Draw: 5 mA.
Features
- Filtered Germanium Distortion Pedal
- Based on a console-style drive circuit
- Uses vintage Germanium transistors
- Huge Gain range - Sweeps from mild overdrive to blasted-out fuzz
- Filter section for detailed control of the drives frequency response - for huge low end, scooped mids, and sharp, piercing highs
- Controls interact with the guitar''s volume control
- Internal Volume trimpot - for set-and-forget control of overall output level
- True Bypass Switching
- Compact footprint and top-mounted jacks for easy pedalboard mounting
- Powered by regular 9 V DC PSU (centre -, 2.1 mm, ~5mA current draw)