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A NOTE ON VINTAGE-STYLE GERMANIUM FUZZ PEDALS
Vintage-style Germanium fuzz circuit designs were built to simply sit between a guitar and a tube amplifier. One
of the key features of these fuzz circuit designs is the ability to roll the guitar volume off for added touch sensitivity.
Depending on pedal settings and guitar pickup construction, this can almost sound like a tweed tube amp at the
edge of breakup.
Where things get funky is determining pedal order in the signal chain. Adding buffered pedals IN FRONT of old
school Germanium fuzz pedals is a big "no no." The impedance mismatch from the buffered pedal's output into
the fuzz pedals input will essentially remove the touch-sensitivity expected between the guitar pedals volume
knob and the fuzz pedal.
Most players and gearheads even recommend foregoing all pedals, even true bypass, in front of the fuzz. Add-
ing pedals after these fuzz circuits is totally OK and yields awesome results.
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