☑ Germanium Vs Silicon Treble Booster

Does someone know a cheap germanium treble booster. A lot of people love and use both kinds and as of late many builders have unveiled fuzz pedals that make use of both varieties of transistors harnessing the best properties of each in one mighty fuzz box that can do it all.

Electrosmash Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster Circuit

Expresso Fx Germanium Boost

Throbak Strange Master Treble Booster Germanium Silicon Transistors Range

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Germanium vs silicon treble booster. Vixen is a germanium booster pedal built with new old stock germanium transistor and diodes. Mar 5 2015 7. It also sounds a bit more trebly and tighter in my experience though obviously how things are set up in the circuit has a huge effect so in this case we are talking all else being equal.

On down side germanium pedals tend to be noiser and more prone to problems with chain placement. Yes silicon is more stable and less affected by temperature. We tend to interpret this as a property of germanium but you can get silicon to behave in the same way.

Ive experienced similar with od and treble booster where i like germanium over silicon. Throbak the celebrated boutique pickup maker also has a nicely rounded but compact range of essentially fuzz style pedals including the fuzz haze fuzz face overdrive boost power boost stone bender mkii tb and this strange master obviously an extended range. I do have a germanium treble booster too and it reacts the same with the guitars volume except it has more treble and less gain on tap.

And while i prefer germanium that doesnt mean silicon is bad and others may prefer. Look at diy projects like the axis face for details. So if you just cant decide between silicon and germanium you may not need to.

Classic germanium boost pedals inspired the vintage channel while the silicon jfet based modern channel offers great transparency in contrast. The time machine does both. Each cbfx germanium booster uses a russian ufo gt germanium.

Silicon problem need not be an eitheror proposition. Throbak strange master hybrid germanium silicon treble booster 229. It can get you anything from a classic treble booster sound to full range or even bass boost with its.

Tube screamers are great and im pretty sure those are all silicon. Fortunately the germanium vs. Welcome to that pedal show.