This pedal is based on our now famous amp-in-a-box Preamp pedal with one important tweak: the replacement of the first FET transistor with a germanium gain stage - stolen from our servo-biased Germanium Boost pedal which is ideal as a versatile gain stage since it reliably imparts a germanium tonality, mostly doesn’t care about temperature, and doesn’t affect frequency response. The result is an alternate universe take on our flagship pedal that marries the incomparable feel of the germanium with the careful equalization and tone controls of the preamp pedal. 

The result is a slightly lower gain, but richer sounding and feeling overdrive/boost/fuzz/whatever we really, really dig. We hope you like it!

Demo by Sasha Ivantic

Demo by collector//emitter

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Review by The Gear Page

Germanium Preamp 

The Germanium Fuzz is a fuzz pedal.  The knobs change the sounds.
This pedal is designed around two germanium 2N527 OR 2N404 Germanium Transistors.  They have been graded for gain and leakage and carefully matched to sound their best.  They are set up in the ubiquitous 60’s circular fuzz topology, and tuned for good sound, and include some additional oddities aimed at solving the issues that prevent more widespread use of Germanium devices.

THE FIRST FUZZ PEDAL WITH AUTOMATIC THERMAL BIAS TECHNOLOGY
The bias of the transistors in this pedal is automatically regulated by a circuit that GENTLY warms the transistors to a preset operating point using analog components, and ensures a consistent sound, no matter the external temperature. 

Review by That Guitar Lover

Demo by Mike Hermans

Demo by Pedal of the Day

Manual

Germanium Fuzz

With a 30ms-1250ms range, the Benson delay goes fast enough to do chorus, vibrato and slapback, and slow enough to create blurred and haunted soundscapes, with a whole spectrum of warbly musical sounds in between.

Hold down the tap knob to boost feedback for some self oscillation! Perfect for holding notes out, and especially for making alien invasion noises in tandem with the time knob (within a toe’s reach). Works when the feedback knob is up a bit. Does not introduce unwanted clicking sounds into the signal path. Adjustable via internal trim pot.
The Benson Delay has the most accurate tap tempo ever applied to the PT2399 thanks to Bontempo, an open source technology concocted by Antoine Ricoux at Electric Canary, which was then refined and implemented by film colorist Octave Zangs (two geniuses). Each pedal CALIBRATES ITSELF IT’S SO COOL.

Review by Guitar Player

Review by reddit /guitarpedals

Demo by JHS Pedals

Demo by ambienttrash

Delay

The Cast Iron Stonk Box is a collaboration between KGR Harmony in Oshu, Japan and Knobhead PDX. We’ve known about Keijiro’s cast iron pedals for a while… He has a fantastic pedal line that utilize hand forged iron enclosures (in a foundry that also creates traditional cast iron tetsubin teapots… We recommend looking up the history of these… It is fascinating). 

Keijiro visited us a couple years ago and we floated the idea of doing a run of Benson Pedals using cast iron… He instantly said yes!

We reached out to Paige at Knobhead PDX to create some cool custom knobs for the project… We were going for something elemental that would offset the cold brutality of the iron with some warmth and light. We settled on a clear amber-ish resin which we feel achieves the effect we wanted nicely. 

Demo by WJB3

Demo by Noise Generator

Review by Guitar.com

Stonk Box - Cast Iron Limited Edition

The Florist is the end result of Non-Human Audio and Benson Amps being so inspired by the possibilities of improving an existing pedal that we pushed the idea even further and create a whole new pedal in what we hope will be an expanding genre of pedals.

The Florist can add some subtle movement under your playing, it can be a chorus, it can be a modulated semi-reverb, it can almost flange, it can achieve weird space sounds, it can sound like a broken tape machine, it can do a lot of things.

Experiment, find your sound, get weird.

Demo by Harp LAdy

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