Death by Audio Germanium Filter Demo Sound Gooder Pedal

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[00:00:00] Emily: Welcome to get offset. My name is Emily and I’m just so happy to have you here. God, it’s always just really nice to see you. Um, and you know, I heard that things haven’t been, you know, always super easy, but you always turn up, you always do your best. Maybe you took a shower today. Maybe you did, but you know what?

[00:00:25] Just get it. Out of bed in any capacity. Sometimes that’s a win. Sometimes it’s a win. And, um, you know, just mark that off your to-do list. I marked it off my to-do list today. And right now I’m marking off something else and hopefully, uh, I actually mark it off a couple of things. I’m marking off, play the guitar, bring myself a little bit of joy.

[00:00:49] Um, mark I’ll film a demo. That’s always, so that’s fun. And hopefully I’m working off. Bring you, bring you. A little Ray of sunshine. I don’t know. That’s it doesn’t sound like me. This is not like me at all. I’m completely honest. Uh, just doesn’t but I’m here today with a death by audio germanium filter. It is a germanium filter.

[00:01:21] I mean, it’s pretty straight forward. As far as death. My audio pedals. Um, normally they do some wild wonky things, but this one needs a ton of explaining. They source some vintage parts. It’s, it’s definitely a mojo machine and I I’ve been playing it for a few days now. I actually got it on the day. It was, uh, officially released.

[00:01:46] I knew about it a few days beforehand and, um, I’ve really enjoyed it as a sweet spot finder. Uh, let’s talk about the controls. This is the filter part, uh, on the heavy side, kind of a base boost and on the, uh, that’s over there. And then over here, Hi, it’s like a trouble trevally screamer type. And then the clean to dirty on the clean side.

[00:02:15] It’s it’s, it’s a boost, but it’s not a clean boost. It is. I’ll turn it off to begin with. It is it’s like plugging your guitar into a vintage console. Like, like, uh, sorry, my friend Erin, who described it as like, like that the Beatles, he kind of sounded as like how Beatles use a Neve console to really shape their sound.

[00:02:44] And this can be kind of that sort of vibe as well. Let me fix my guitar strap real quick. So, um, I’m here, my American professional to series Jazzmaster. I’m flying my Benson amp because that’s what was plugged in. I have my sorry, cables, my rocket strap. You might see my little guitar pick holder and I can turn the volume up on my guitar.

[00:03:11] So I’m into dirty. It gets into like fuzz. Territory’s really.

[00:03:24] so that’s just my clean sound and let’s listen to it on clean with the tone kind of in the middle

[00:03:41] So obviously that has total characteristics. Just boosting your tone without shaping it. There’s a definite definite shape there.

[00:04:08] I think you would be unable to find, uh, an actual clean spot. I think it’s always going to kind of shape the town, but I really liked that. So let me just play through the filter, which you can hear. You can kind of hear the filter in the background as I sweep it. Um, I’m going to start in the heavy, just, it’s just going to roll an open E a chord and I’m going to show you how it shapes

[00:04:47] So it goes from things that I think are very traditional. Normal kind of guitar sounds in the middle.

[00:05:10] to kind of like really low, heavy kind of things.

[00:05:18] Uh, probably sound a little bit more natural with some gain to really kind of telephone. S sounds that I think are really cool. The not super duper kind of like normal. Guitar sounds that you might try to get with a standard app. Sound very vintage-y and I think cool. Almost telephony. I think

[00:06:09] um, and then you add and the dirt to get more sounds. And there is, um, an internal, uh, what do they call them? Internal control a. Oh, my God. There’s you take off the back plate. There is a clear internal volume control that basically goes from no volume to scream and tons of volume. I don’t know why you’d want to turn off the volume completely, but if you want to, you can do that.

[00:06:41] Let’s start adding some dirt.

[00:06:52] I got to, I was like, what am I to like, which song I play?

[00:10:27] so, um, that gets a lot louder than. Uh, I normally get with my neighbor. So I, I normally I’d reach over and turn the ant back down, but I wanted you to like, feel it, I run to recreate the difference. So, um, yeah, that got a lot louder. Uh, what I want to do is see how well it cleans up. So I turned the guitar about six months.

[00:10:57] See how well I clean up. Damn. I would turn the gain back up. I’m going to turn the guitar volume up a little bit. Cause I really do think it cleans up nicely. I want to keep about in the middle for that. Um, I think it cleans up nicely.

[00:12:15] I like that.

[00:12:39] This section, it would definitely break through a mic cut through a mix really well, but like, it’s just,

[00:12:51] uh, it’s very, very meds, very, I think, uh, ear fatigue, E.

[00:13:27] let’s turn that back down and let’s, let’s try to find a spot that I just generally kind of. Um, and how I would kind of use this pedal on a paddleboard. I can, I can absolutely imagine. I love, I’ve been loving this pedal for days where it takes me like a few days to get around, to filming a pedal. It’s just usually, cause I really have been enjoying play.

[00:13:50] And this is that case.

[00:15:12] all right. Yeah. So that’s a cool, quick ish. Look at the death by audio germane filter. This is kind of the saying that I I’ve been really liking kind of on the cleaner side wood, which surprises me. Especially through the Benson. I’ve been enjoying it there. Uh, not quite in the middle a little bit on the heavier side is what I traditionally have been enjoying.

[00:15:37] But to be honest, I’ve been going to the high side when I’ve been rehearsing, kind of playing certain songs for Sunday, crushed my bands, uh, set. Because I’ve just been really having a lot of fun, just cuing in certain sorts of filtering types of things. Like for example, uh, we have this, we have a song and I just think this is

[00:16:18] It gives a kind of a vintage, you sort of feel that I’ve been really enjoying. And I normally do that. Uh, traditionally I’ve kind of done that, um, with the, uh, chase plus, uh, Tom Matone, um, just because it has such robust filter controls. Um, that’s really expensive. I don’t really want to play it on stage.

[00:16:45] Um, this I can just reach over and yeah. Adjust that EEQ parameter. It just felt tears it so well that I might like this house is on the board right now. Also not really doing anything in particular for that song in normally I would just to change up the tone and make it sound kind of, vintage-y almost like sixties asks.

[00:17:12] I want that song to sound. Older. Like, I want it to sound like a Phil Spector song. Sorry, I just do like that song sounds those, because those songs sound like being young and I wouldn’t have that sort of feeling. And I feel like you could get that just with like, turning that. No, it’s closer to the high position on that clean because it just, it gets that vibe really well.

[00:17:41] Um, so I might actually add this to my full-time board. Um, and I don’t usually make that decision like in a demo, but I might, because I’m not doing, I’m not doing anything to try to get that right now. And that kind of bums me out. Um, yeah, I love it. I’ve been really loving it. Um, It’s just very much a mojo sound good, or it can, it can go from just a simple mojo, Joey sound gooder, uh, get that vibe that you’re looking for pedal to a very angry, very angry kind of fuzz.

[00:18:19] So that makes it really versatile. And it has a very, you know, simple to knob layout. Um, and I mean, obviously it cleans up with. Yeah. So, um, yeah, I’ve been, I love, I like it a lot. Uh, I’ve been yammering it enough. Um, thanks for watching, please. Like comment, subscribe below. Check us out at patrion.com/get offset.

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[00:19:31] Sorry. Obviously I clicked the box. So you probably saw this, the video started my bad should have said that before. Um, yeah. Other than that, thanks for watching. Thanks for understanding. Thank you so much for showing up and tuning in. I really appreciate you have an excellent day until next time. My name is Emily good-bye.