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Death By Audio launches its new Germanium Filter, promising “true vintage distortion”
The filter can get seriously dirty.
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Pedal makers Death By Audio have launched a new pedal, the Germanium Filter. The two-knob stompbox, despite its utilitarian-sounding name, can impart a huge amount of filth onto your guitar tone.
The pedal, alongside being a filter, is described by DBA as a “console-style boost, fuzz, distortion and overdrive.” At its heart is a pair of new-old-stock germanium transistors, hand-matched according to Death By Audio’s own specifications.
Its controls are pretty simple. There’s a gain control (labelled clean-dirty) and a filter control (labelled heavy-high). At the lowest gain setting, the pedal functions as a dirty boost, adding in spluttering fuzz and distortion as you crank the knob. The filter control also dramatically adjusts your signal’s sound, with the lowest setting providing furniture-rattling sub-bass, and the highest setting providing a piercing treble boost.
Death By Audio founder Oliver Ackerman said in a press release: “I’m so psyched about the Germanium Filter. It sounds so good on everything all the time. I think everyone needs one on their pedalboard to give your tone that classic shine or to blast out the windows.”
Hear it in action below.
The pedal lists for $225. Find out more at deathbyaudio.com.
Cillian is Guitar.com's Senior Staff Writer, and has written news, features and reviews for Guitar.com since 2019. When not writing about guitars, Cillian spends their time building and modding pedals, rearranging their pedalboard and extolling the virtues of the ProCo RAT.