Like many inventions, engineers seek to improve on an item while giving it more consistency. Something guitar players know a bit about. In short, it’s temperamental, hard to make consistently, and fussy. Or meatier if you put it next to your frozen meats. But the real question is if it sounds sweeter if you keep it next to your ice cream. This is unsubstantiated as far as I can tell, but sounds like an experiment in the making. Legend has it that some guitarists will actually throw their fuzz pedals in the freezer before recording. They’re also extremely sensitive to temperature and the tone can change depending on the temperature of the transistor. They may hold onto voltage, which will alter the tone. In addition to that, they can be wildly different tonally from transistor to transistor. So they’re more hand made than machine made.
The process of making transistors out of germanium is surprisingly manual. If you can get your hands on it, you’ll have a tough time automating the manufacturing of transistors with it. To start it’s pretty rare for something used so widely. The Tone Bender is one of my favorite fuzz pedals and I love the range it has, in addition to its relative smoothness.īut germanium has a few inherent issues.
But like your warm tube amp has a hole in the speaker. The germanium transistors helped to create a smoother, warmer fuzz tone that is somewhat along the lines of a tube amp. And in the 1960s they were used in guitar pedals. They were used largely in radio technology, like AM radios and car radios. Germanium was the first material to be used in transistors.
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