Caroline Guitar Company Shigeharu Germanium Octave Fuzz - Army Green

From Caroline Guitar Company: 

This year, we're going to be producing some limited run variants of some of our existing faves, and we're excited for another run of these limited Germanium editions for SHIGEHARU.

Now, while it would have been easy enough for us to say “voila! We have substituted these germanium parts for the perfectly functioning silicon ones for more ‘authentic’ tones. Now give us money as we ride this buzzword & trend” that just would not have been good enough for us, for our retailers, or our customers.

So in addition to the parallel octave circuit of the Shigeharu getting a bit more of a *woody* texture and sound from some new old stock Soviet parts we used, we also tweaked each of the transistor gain stages to more closely resemble one of our favorite old bubble-font Soviet era fuzzstortions in our reference lab.

The end result is still PLENTY of gain – I mean, good lord, you should know us by now, right? – but more wooly, a bit more low end, and a bit more bark and a little less bite than our standard Shigeharu. There’s still an incredible range of overdriven, distorted, and all out fuzzy sounds here and – while we still can! – these are hand-wired at our workshop in Columbia, S.C.

Our first run of Army Green in early 2024 sold out in a hurry to a limited batch of retailers, so we’re delivering a limited batch of these again, this time with the red star for the gain control. We promised more of these back then if people wanted them, so we’re giving the people what they want!