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DISCOUNT PROVIDED FOR LOCAL (TORONTO) PICK-UP. Message me.This pedal offers phenomenal tone and versatility. All the way from little grit to full on fuzz, it’s so good. I’m only selling because I went hard on accumulating drives and fuzzes over the last few years and am now trying to reduce my board to bare essentials. I’ll be sad to see this go, but also just don’t have room for it and it’s not getting used enough to merit keeping it. Only used at home (smoke/pet free). Excellent condition.The Germanium Fuzz is a fuzz pedal (duh!). The knobs change the sounds. IMPORTANT: after plugging it into power (9vdc only), it will take 2-3 minutes on average to sound correct. Good time to tune your guitar and grab a beverage. The color of the LED indicator light might change. Don’t turn the internal trimmer. THAT’S IT.Installed is a class A buffer in the very input of the Germanium Fuzz. This buffer feeds a Jack Orman style passive 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, Benson 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.GAIN RANGEThe 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. It will sound different, and I think more useful, than the classic versions. There are many colors of tone available with the impedance and gain controls…they are very interactive.