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  • January 29, 2010 at 8:23 pm #79782
    julian
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    http://www.guitarplayer.com/GearVideo.aspx?bctid=62326832001

    Posted by EHX on facebook.

    I’m wondering if it will be 3 knobs and no flip switches or if it will take any cues from the newer dirt pedals like the Germanium OD and the BMTW.

    January 29, 2010 at 10:24 pm #106933
    merdujapon
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    exciting stuff :). Maybe it’ll be a *gasp* cleaner Muff? Perhaps a bonafide overdrive :O

    January 29, 2010 at 10:57 pm #106935
    joed424
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    hope its got tone bypass for fuzz face tones w/ muff gain

    January 30, 2010 at 1:42 am #106938
    Trae3ab
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    Whoa!

    I love germanium pedals.

    They are elite.

    This would be really interesting.

    I’m trying not to let my imagination get the better of me.

    I just ordered my boutique fuzz pedal, and am awaiting it, I would like a germanium muff to replace my current big muff.

    This is exciting.

    January 30, 2010 at 5:59 am #106944
    julian
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    I think it would still sound quite different from a Fuzz Face, the circuits are really quite different.

    If you want a cleaner muff, I’d think one thing you could do would be adding a switch to bypass the clipping diodes.

    January 30, 2010 at 9:02 am #106945
    devnulljp
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    The Hoof is a Germanium (well, half anyway) muff. I don’t think just using Ge trannies is going to magically make a muff circuit somehow sound like a FF.

    January 30, 2010 at 1:36 pm #106948
    electro-melx
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    if anything it will probably sound filthier…. it all depends on the gain of the trannies really I suppose.

    January 30, 2010 at 3:10 pm #106950
    Fender&EHX4ever
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    Cool!

    I love the digital stuff too, but I’m always pumped to see more analog stuff coming out.

    The Germanium OD is seriously underrated.

    January 30, 2010 at 4:06 pm #106952
    BlueSteel
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    yea, its nice to see more analog stuff coming out, because a lot of the newer pedals coming out are digital.

    January 30, 2010 at 5:17 pm #106953
    julian
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    Quote:
    The Hoof is a Germanium (well, half anyway) muff. I don’t think just using Ge trannies is going to magically make a muff circuit somehow sound like a FF.

    I could see the EHX Germanium Muff being half germanium too. Germanium transistors are expensive.

    They could also put germanium clipping diodes in as well.

    January 31, 2010 at 5:17 pm #106981
    merdujapon
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    I think I speak for everyone on this forum when I bellow WHEN CAN WE SEE IT?!? :)

    January 31, 2010 at 7:42 pm #106983
    julian
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    It would have been nice if the interviewer would have asked him that, wouldn’t it have been??

    It’s hard to tell with them. A pedal seems to take about 6-10 months from the time we’ve initially heard about it. Unless we initially hear about it at NAMM, in which it takes 2-5 months.

    This is just guessing by EHX’s history. I’ve really got no clue. Only they know where they are in the development process, and even they can be inaccurate.

    January 31, 2010 at 9:43 pm #106987
    Ned Flanders
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    The sweet’D!

    I prefer silicon pedals, but if its a big muff I’ll buy one anyways. 😆

    February 1, 2010 at 8:09 am #107007
    SupremePancake
    Member

    I always thought the Big Muff was Germanium.

    February 1, 2010 at 9:22 pm #107030
    Ned Flanders
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    Nup, only silicon transistors and IC’s (which contain a bunch of silicon transistors).

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