Ive got a hard on for the germanium 4 BMP and im also excited to see the 44 mag BUT i am a bit disappointed, i was hoping it would be tube based and in a english muffin type box.

I am curious how it will sound, but they look great! But not a fuzz as far as I reaqd unfortunately..
Now I hope they will have some other surprises..

I’m trying to get some more info about it from the designers, Bob Myer, and Daniel Shin. Hopefully I will have an article about it on my website soon, or at least by the release date. From what I have read in the press release, it has most of the things I had hoped it would have in it. Can’t wait to try it.

I’m curious about the transistors as well, but since this is not a Fuzz Face I am not expecting those same issues to apply. A fuzz face is a pretty simple, but unforgiving circuit, and the tranys are the most key component to what we expect a good one to sound like, at least if you are comparing it to an old one. But even old ones don’t all sound the same. I’m sure EHX is going for the most cost effective and best sounding 275s they can find to keep the overall unit cost as low as possible. If the G4BM incorporates the standard Big Muff circuit path however, it’s a totally different animal than a fuzz. It seems the stacking of the two sections and adjustment knobs to allow a wide variety of tones is where this one is going to stand out.

Bob Myer mentioned to me in February that he was working on a “Germanium transistor amplifier with parameter controls”. This was part of a discussion on Big Muffs, so I am assuming the G4 is a Muff circuit. That and the fact that it is called a Big Muff. Mike usually reserves those two words for Big Muff circuits. Germanium tranys in a Big Muff sound nothing like a traditional Muff, or a Fuzz Face for that matter, so this should be interesting to hear. I can’t wait.