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| $250.00 USD |
GEGE GERMANIUM FUZZ
This company has made it to that 'magic' 5 years where small gourmet companies become visible or vanish. It really gets down to excellence. Great pedals for what we perceive as good value for money. Some do the obvious classics with enough respect to the originals and a fair price. Others come up with fresh ideas that transfer to great new but very usable sounds often in a very appealing casing.
This Fuzz is based on the best of '50s germanium Fuzz pedals with tricks to the bias to bring in a nicely controlled sputter and spit that suggests a torn speaker or a messed up amp. The simple volume, tone and gain and a switch to bring in the destruction and another for a nice mid boost. Internally it gives you 'dip' switches to revoice the pedal to a standard to a deeper mor lower mids voice. That voice gives it a lot of heft. In standard mode it has upper mids with a lot of poke. One look at the graphics and I am in love.
CONCLUSION
It is definitely my kind of Fuzz. It is not a gimmick ridden pedal that is fun at home for awhile but is useless in a live band gig. You get a OD like control like you get with a Muff but you get that fat grainy germanium sound with any downside in it's tendency for the self destruction under control.
These days the the 'gotcha' price on any dirt pedal is $200.00 USD give or take $25, for me it is a 'do not need'.
If you do not own a Fuzz it is very good value as it will cover anything where ideally you had a Tonebender, a Fuzz Face and a Big Muff. It can even squeak into Super Fuzz territory.
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