Why is germanium more temperature than silicon?
Germanium is more temperature sensitive than silicon because it has a smaller band gap. Even at moderate temperature, a substantial number of electrons in germanium are produce from thermal generation. For example at about 120 C, the concentration of electrons and holes from thermal generation is > 1E15.
What is the difference between silicon and germanium transistors?
To answer you actual question, there are two significant differences between silicon and germanium transistors: germanium has a low melting point and germanium transistors have much less tolerance for high temperatures. The forward voltage drop of a germanium junction is lower than for silicon.
Is germanium more expensive than silicon?
Another important reason is that Silicon is less expensive than the Germanium, as the raw material for Silicon is available in abundance. The leakage current in Silicon is much lesser than Germanium. Mainly the fabrication process is easy, due to the low melting point of the Silicon.
Does Silicon fuzz clean up?
Silicon Fuzz Faces tend to not have the beautiful clean up from your guitars volume knob like their germanium cousins. You can get varying amounts of fuzz by lowering your guitar’s volume knob, but they don’t completely clean up.
What is a Fuzz Face pedal?
The Fuzz Face is an effects pedal for electric guitar, used also by some electric bass players. It is designed to produce a distorted sound referred to as “fuzz”, originally achieved through accident such as broken electrical components or damaged speakers.
What Fuzz Face did Jimi Hendrix use?
Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face pedal
Do you need a fuzz pedal?
A fuzz sounds is WAY higher gain and more jagged sounding than the OCD. Think about Foxey Lady, or Sunshine of Your Love. If you don’t need those type of sounds, then no, you don’t need a fuzz.
Is the fuzz factory a fuzz face?
IIRC, the Fuzz Factory is basically a LPB-1 booster slammed into a Fuzz Face, with all of the “fixed” parts of the circuit made adjustable.
Should I get an overdrive or distortion pedal?
If you need a subtle boost in volume and sustain and you don’t ever see yourself needing blistering high gain distortion, or you already have decent distortion on your amp and want to go all Emeril and kick it up a notch, then bam…go with an overdrive pedal. Want even more gain, get both a distortion and overdrive.
Is OCD overdrive or distortion?
The Fulltone Obsessive Compulsive Drive (OCD) is an extremely open sounding Overdrive/Distortion circuit that differs from other overdrives in that it has a good bit more Dynamic-Range…