Benson Germanium Boost is a germanium clean boost that can utilize a germanium transistor without the weird artifacts that were previously accepted as part of the deal…temperature sensitivity, drift, and suboptimal input impedance and headroom.
After the boost is first powered up, it takes about ten seconds before the error correction circuit correctly biases the germanium transistor After this things get interesting….you can hear how having the boost engaged makes guitar signals sound more musical…even when set at the same volume as the bypassed tone. Notes are given a simultaneously smoother and more detailed character, like a compressor but different. It helps acoustic guitar pickups sound more natural. And of course it’ll push your amp into a frenzy.
This pedal is for use only with a 9vdc Boss syle center negative power supply. There is space for a battery which is activated when a cable is plugged into the input, and there is no power supply plugged into the DC jack.