went down to one of my local shops and they just got in this new EHX germanium od pedal. iv heard of germanium pedals and i knew they were big in the 60s so i decided to try it. just got my vox about a month ago or so and i bought the LPB boost to drive it a little, but this germanium pedal is prolly the best thing i could put on my board.

i keep my vox really clean and the boost drives the amp naturally, but the od pedal gets that grit and tone i just couldnt get from the amp. the germanium pedal is more fuzzy than a regular od pedal, but its not a fuzz pedal. lol i cant describe it but i dropped the $ right then and there. very affordable, very great tone! everybody who used overdrive should try it out! its awesome.


http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/prod ... sku=150406


kc

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Guitars: American Standard Strat, American Vintage 52 Tele, Gretsch Power Jet

Amps: Frontman 212R, Hot Rod DeVille 212 w/ Vintage 30's, AC30 w/ Greenbacks

Pedals: Boss Tuner, XOTiC AC-Booster, MXR Phase 90, Line 6 DL4

I love the germanium OD, it is almost like a speaker blowing/crackling sound

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Germanium fuzz pedals are great too.
Fulltone used to make the '69 Fuzz pedal until they ran out of germanium. That pedal will sell as much as $350.00 on ebay.
Mike at Fulltone is going to make a special run now that he's got some new germanium transistors to work with.
The Home Brew Ultimate Fuzz Octave is a good pedal too. I like the fact that it has a vintage and modern circuit on it, including an octave switch.

Most of the vintage fuzzboxes -- Gibson's Maestro, Vox's Tone Bender, Jordan's Bosstone, Guyatone's Fuzztone, and the original Arbiter Fuzz Face -- were all designed around germanium devices.

I wish I'd kept my Tone Bender......

Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

That Fulltone 69 in one of the best IMO.

I had a Univox Super-Fuzz in the early '70s. I've never been able to recreate the sustain that pedal provided. I literally gave it away when I sold my first ever Fender for college tuition money.

Hard to find today and they either don't work and they're expensive, or they do work and they're very expensive.

Huge germanium fan here... I have an OC44 treble booster and a couple of AC128-based pedals — a Big Muff-ish Hartman and a Tonebender Mk III-esque one made by local builder (and great player) Shaun Klinger. All good for different flavours. I'm also inordinately fond of my "nasty-wedge-of-black-metal-cheese" Shin-Ei FY-2 silicon fuzz... it won't clean up like a germanium fuzz (or indeed at all), but it's provided me with hours of stupid fun.