Vintage Distortion - The Death By Audio Germanium Filter Pedal

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, and 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.

• 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.

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.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Current Draw: 5mA
• Power: 9V (runs on standard 2.1mm negative center 9V adapter or included 9V battery)
• Size Dimensions: 5" x 2.5" x 2.25" (including hardware)
• Weight: 10.6 ounces

Manufacturer: Death by Audio
Model: GERMANIUM FILTER
SKU: I688084-N-1-WHXB
UPC: 195893383146

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