Great sounding USA made pedal. From an online review below:
The Germ’s clean boost is simply huge, yet the circuit is super quiet. The crunch side supplies the same ridiculous volume boost, but with the addition of a fat distortion. We could easily conjure Hiwatt-style rage from a Super Reverb in this mode. Amazing. Turning down your guitar volume yields stunning clarity and definition – crunch and punch at your fingertips. The Germ’s distortion character is not so much creamy as it is chunky. It’s almost too thick for chords, but single-note lines jump out of the speakers with hammer-like authority. The Germ isn’t for everyone – if you’re looking for a high-gain pedal to do the work for you, this pedal isn’t your cup of bacteria. But if you want to infect your amp with an outbreak of old-school crunch – or an epidemic of clean boost – the righteously dynamic Germ does the deed
