For those of you who also use your pedals on keyboards, I make use of the Germanium OD to make a poor man’s Fender Rhodes Electric Piano sound. The effect really shines on keyboards that have touch response abilities. You basically just choose the crappy electronic piano setting on your Yamaha keyboard, or whatever, put it through the Germanium, and anytime you play with more attack on the keys (louder notes), the Germanium kicks in just like the high gain, overdriven sounds on the Rhodes and Wurlitzers do. Softer playing equals no overdrive.

Obviously, you’ll never accurately recreate the sound of a Rhodes in this manner, but you can come incredibly close without shelling the money and space to own the real thing.

And if you have a vibrato or tremolo pedal, you have the poor man’s Wurlitzer too.