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Originally Posted by cyrano
There are some around that you can repair by ticking them a few times with your screwdriver. Sometimes that fix is permanent, most of the times it's not.
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Yea it depends, I purchased a few every week for months between 2014-16 so I have a hundred or few - which means I only have a handful of Ge's that will actually work in a fuzz circuit well.
However, I usually build hybrids now with Q1 Si and Q2 Ge which vastly reduces the temperature instability without losing the smoothing Ge does to harmonics that the silicon doesn't. That's one of the very few things in this subject matter that isn't audiophile foolery.
You can certainly build a fuzz that is Si that sounds great, but they don't by default smooth the high-end the way Ge does. That's also why treble boosters (the old ones from 60s/70s), as designed, tend to sound less prickly than the same stock circuit built with Si but you know that already.