Crimson Drive/Germanium Drives in General

[Ghost Hip]

Love germanium fuzz boxes. Especially my Holowon Furr Fuzz.

[sylnau]

Love germanium fuzz boxes. Especially my Holowon Furr Fuzz.

I'm using my AB-Synth 5k on germanium most of the time.

[Derelict78]

I'm really digging the penny pedals low fuzz.
To the point that is is Always on.

[larsbars]

Just started using a V2 Zap Machine in my punk band and that thing just sounds so fuckin rock and roll! I love it. Also have a Quantum Mystic that sounds HEAVY without being super gain-y. Need to check out more germ dirt for sure.

[LaoWiz]

Buzzaround is fantastic. I always felt it was a overdrive/fuzz as it's super heavy but there's that rich color in chords. I wonder what a range master would sound like with germanium clippers. Maybe with a saturation control to dial in and out the grit. Probably amazing.

[zRobertez]

Dude Sparkle Motion > Crimson drive is awesome. All the volumes/gains up it sounds ridiculous

[1009]

EHX's Germanium Overdrive is one of the weirdest (but not spectacularly weird, just an odd duck) pedals they ever made. There's a huge volume boost in the gain knob (but no master volume/overall level), a bias knob, and a voltage knob. I've become pretty fond of putting it at the end of my board in a setting that's quite voltage starved, to the point that it's useless for little other than scratchy noise or texture by itself. When I hit it with something else, though -- lately a Dwarfcraft Zhago -- the thing just fucking roars with a loud gated-type pseudo-fuzz. It's not the intended use for the pedal, but I've never really heard anything else like it. One of these days I'm going to talk to aen about it.

[zRobertez]

Also want to try the Way Huge Havalina - some of the sounds in demos are the type of tones I get with the setup above

[goroth]

I'm really digging the penny pedals low fuzz.
To the point that is is Always on.

I want this a lot.

And everything Matt makes.