“I’ve always loved this kind of hard-clipping circuit as it’s really responsive to playing dynamics”: Great Eastern FX finds stash of super-rare NOS germanium diodes and makes a distortion inspired by MXR and DOD classics with a cocked-wah twist

Great Eastern FX Obsolete Devices Distortion Filter D312A.

Great Eastern FX has unveiled the latest limited edition stompbox in its Obsolete Devices series, and it is a distortion pedal inspired by the iconic hard-clipping performance of the MXR Distortion+ and DOD Overdrive/Preamp 250 – only this does something very different, applying a powerful band-pass filter that allows players to dial in some cocked wah electric guitar tones.

And it is also packing some stompbox gold in its circuit, a trio of NOS germanium diodes. The Distortion Filter D312A is named after the Soviet-era diodes that might otherwise have ended up in a walkie-talkie.