The Death By Audio Germanium Filter is a raw, uncompromising distortion pedal that blends vintage germanium character with Death By Audio’s signature intensity. Built as a love letter to abused speakers and overdriven consoles, it pairs a console style drive circuit with obsolete germanium transistors and an aggressively unconventional filter section to deliver tones that are crushingly heavy, razor sharp, and endlessly expressive.

Main Features

• Filtered germanium distortion pedal
• Console style drive circuit design
• Uses vintage germanium transistors
• Extremely wide gain range
  • From mild overdrive to aggressive fuzz
• Highly unconventional filter section for deep tone shaping
  • Huge low end
  • Scooped mids
  • Sharp, piercing highs
• Controls respond dynamically to the guitar’s volume control
• Internal volume trimpot for overall output level adjustment
• True bypass switching
• Compact footprint with top mounted jacks for easy pedalboard integration
• Powered by standard 9 V DC power supply
  • Centre negative
  • 2.1 mm connector
  • Approx. 5 mA current draw

From the first turn of the controls, the Germanium Filter feels alive. The gain structure sweeps from a gritty, dirty boost through saturated overdrive and spitting distortion, all the way to blistering, blasted out fuzz. Every setting reacts dynamically to your playing and interacts naturally with your guitar’s volume control, allowing you to clean up or push further into chaos without touching the pedal.

The standout feature is the Filter control. Far from a traditional tone knob, it reshapes the entire frequency response of the drive circuit, moving from bottomless, sub heavy lows to brittle, searing highs, with an enormous spectrum of usable tones in between. It makes it easy to carve out the perfect sound for any instrument, amp, or mix, whether you are on stage, in the studio, or anywhere else inspiration strikes.

An internal volume trimpot provides set and forget control over the overall output level, making the Germanium Filter easy to integrate into any pedalboard while still delivering its signature sonic violence.

Vintage Grit with Modern Control

The Death By Audio Germanium Filter is not about polite tones or safe settings. It is about pushing sound to its limits and finding character in the extremes. Whether you are chasing filthy overdrive, snarling distortion, or full throttle fuzz, this pedal delivers unmistakable vintage bite with modern flexibility and control.

If you want your tone loud, sharp, and unapologetically bold, the Germanium Filter is ready to deliver.

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