Germanium First Impressions

[GYang]

Originally Posted by Empty Planet

Mine went into the rack and has never come out. Great pre.

Almost impossible to imagine my rack without Germs (all three), although it is right choice when some key pres/EQ/comps are already there.
Different flavour, but what one
It's strange when people compares Germs with anything else, thet don't ressemble typical gears' sonics and being different and still very high-endish makes them great.

[DanRock101]

Originally Posted by elambo

Awesome! I think the Germ topples the GR on elec gtr and the Thick button is great. Mine stays in most of the time. Subjective much.

Originally Posted by Empty Planet

Topples, that's a good one.

Mine went into the rack and has never come out. Great pre. Don't use the thick so much, usually wound up cutting it back in the mix, but then my mixes tend to have a fat ass anyway.


Cheers.

The thick button IS the shit! Follow it with an API 560, cut the boominess and you're in FAT ASS HEAVEN!!!!! I'll say in a busy mix when the guitar is NOT the main player, then the thick switch wouldn't make sense, but in a song where the guitar is the main beast, there's fewer better choices!

Coles 4038>Germ>API 560>1176ln..... I think I just got bigger in the naughty place!

[baikonour]

How whould you compare the germanium to the TG2 soundwise?
PS: I have a TG2 and love it but I haven't try the germ yet.

Thanks

[Empty Planet]

Originally Posted by DanRock101

The thick button IS the shit! Follow it with an API 560, cut the boominess and you're in FAT ASS HEAVEN!!!!!

Lol, okay, thanks for the kick. Back to the lab it is.





Cheers.

[fuzzyguitars]

Originally Posted by baikonour

How whould you compare the germanium to the TG2 soundwise?
PS: I have a TG2 and love it but I haven't try the germ yet.

Thanks

they sound similiar yet different at the same time.

the germ sounds more "gooey, and less mid pushed" to me than the tg.

but if you back off the gain on then they can be made to sound similiar.

they both bring on their classic sounds when pushed harder.

[DanRock101]

Originally Posted by baikonour

How whould you compare the germanium to the TG2 soundwise?
PS: I have a TG2 and love it but I haven't try the germ yet.

Thanks

I have an original TG1 MK1, so my response MAY qualify. But the the TG is more grainy (in a GOOD way) and the Germ is more creamy. The Germ has more headroom, which isn't better or worse than the TG's lack of headroom.

[ion-five]

Originally Posted by T. Gundersen

Great to see a unit get so much praise.

Have anyone tried the Chandler Germ 500 for the 500-series format? I'd be interested in getting that if it's as good as the big brother for sure.

i second this

can someone clarify if the 500 is basicaly the same and sounds the same?
i want to pick up a pair

[Fleaman]

Originally Posted by ion-five

i second this

can someone clarify if the 500 is basicaly the same and sounds the same?
i want to pick up a pair

The Germ 500 was discontinued.

[ion-five]

yeh i know.. but that wasnt my question

i anyway just have enough to pick up a pair 500`s USED or the good ol intro price...


btw. ATLAS still offers them FS!

so could you or anyone tell me is they are the same than the 19" version?

[ion-five]

or was it discontinued because of other reasons than the issues with SOME PSU`s ?

is there ANY sonic difference between 500 and 19"

[NathanEldred]

Originally Posted by ion-five

ATLAS still offers them FS!

Only because we are lucky enough to have two still left in our stock, it's not something that is an ongoing supply of them.