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Chris spent several weeks on the design seeking a giant sound in a compact package equally at home in the living room and studio. Beautiful clean and driven sounds are achieved at conversational volumes. The vinny head is the size of a six-pack of tall boys. The single volume control is also a tone control: vinny starts out bright when the control is set low and clean, and gets darker as it is turned up and driven into compression, overdrive, and eventually distortion. The killer feature of this tiny amp is an internal load and post-output-transformer line out… vinny makes a killer preamp! Plugged into another amplifier, or even a recording console, real power tube drive sounds are available at any volume! 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Expect the LED to toggle back and forth every so often while the pedal is on…that is how you know its working. The heaters will warm the transistors enough to still be effective on a sunny stage, but far cooler than anything that would harm the transistors. This pedal is designed to operate between freezing and 100˚F but might still sound finne outside this range. There are two colors: Studio Black is not meant for direct sunlight, Solar White is fine with it. We have found there is a 20˚F difference between a black pedal and a white pedal in direct sunlight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eINPUT IMPEDANCE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe low input impedance of the classic two transistor germanium fuzz circuit is both a blessing and a curse….a blessing because it can yield a tight sparkly clean tone when guitar volume is rolled down, and a curse because it sounds nasty (in a bad way) if there are buffers or pedals before it in a signal chain. We went to some extremes to keep the blessing and lose the curse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe installed a class A buffer in the very input of the Germanium Fuzz. This buffer feeds a pickup simulator circuit (an audio transformer set up as an inductor, a resistor, and a capacitor). These two additions make compatibility with other pedals possible without losing the desired sound. After the pickup simulator circuit, we have added an “Impedance” control, which simulates rolling down the guitar volume to get that tight sparkly sound…without adjusting your guitar volume….which you can still do and still sounds great.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGAIN RANGE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe circuit has been tuned to be used as a rich sounding clean boost, an overdrive, all the way up to an aggressive fuzz with some octave overtones. There are many colors of tone available with the impedance and gain controls…they are very interactive. 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It will pull those 70ma instantaneously, which most power supplies have no issue with. With substandard or non standard power supplies it is possible the pedal will start oscillating madly at the heater threshold, where the LED changes.","brand":"Benson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34873447121031,"sku":"BENSONGERMFUZZBLK","price":299.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0343\/4368\/2183\/products\/benson-effects-and-pedals-fuzz-benson-germanium-fuzz-studio-black-bensongermfuzzblk-28214183329927.jpg?v=1646413506"},{"product_id":"benson-germanium-fuzz-solar-white-1164359","title":"Benson Germanium Fuzz Solar White","description":"\u003ci\u003eFrom Benson:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis pedal is designed around two germanium 2N527 OR 2N404 Germanium Transistors. They have been graded for gain and leakage and carefully matched to sound their best. 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The heaters will warm the transistors enough to still be effective on a sunny stage, but far cooler than anything that would harm the transistors. This pedal is designed to operate between freezing and 100˚F but might still sound fine outside this range. There are two colors: Studio Black is not meant for direct sunlight, Solar White is fine with it. We have found there is a 20˚F difference between a black pedal and a white pedal in direct sunlight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eINPUT IMPEDANCE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe low input impedance of the classic two transistor germanium fuzz circuit is both a blessing and a curse….a blessing because it can yield a tight sparkly clean tone when guitar volume is rolled down, and a curse because it sounds nasty (in a bad way) if there are buffers or pedals before it in a signal chain. We went to some extremes to keep the blessing and lose the curse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe installed a class A buffer in the very input of the Germanium Fuzz. This buffer feeds a pickup simulator circuit (an audio transformer set up as an inductor, a resistor, and a capacitor). These two additions make compatibility with other pedals possible without losing the desired sound. After the pickup simulator circuit, we have added an “Impedance” control, which simulates rolling down the guitar volume to get that tight sparkly sound…without adjusting your guitar volume….which you can still do and still sounds great.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGAIN RANGE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe circuit has been tuned to be used as a rich sounding clean boost, an overdrive, all the way up to an aggressive fuzz with some octave overtones. There are many colors of tone available with the impedance and gain controls…they are very interactive. 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Expect the LED to toggle back and forth every so often while the pedal is on…that is how you know its working. The heaters will warm the transistors enough to still be effective on a sunny stage, but far cooler than anything that would harm the transistors. This pedal is designed to operate between freezing and 100˚F but might still sound fine outside this range. There are two colors: Studio Black is not meant for direct sunlight, Solar White is fine with it. We have found there is a 20˚F difference between a black pedal and a white pedal in direct sunlight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eINPUT IMPEDANCE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe low input impedance of the classic two transistor germanium fuzz circuit is both a blessing and a curse….a blessing because it can yield a tight sparkly clean tone when guitar volume is rolled down, and a curse because it sounds nasty (in a bad way) if there are buffers or pedals before it in a signal chain. We went to some extremes to keep the blessing and lose the curse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe installed a class A buffer in the very input of the Germanium Fuzz. This buffer feeds a pickup simulator circuit (an audio transformer set up as an inductor, a resistor, and a capacitor). These two additions make compatibility with other pedals possible without losing the desired sound. After the pickup simulator circuit, we have added an “Impedance” control, which simulates rolling down the guitar volume to get that tight sparkly sound…without adjusting your guitar volume….which you can still do and still sounds great.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGAIN RANGE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe circuit has been tuned to be used as a rich sounding clean boost, an overdrive, all the way up to an aggressive fuzz with some octave overtones. There are many colors of tone available with the impedance and gain controls…they are very interactive. 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