It's no secret that I am a fan of Kickstarter. I find the Kickstarter platform to be a great spring board for new ideas and young businesses. About once a week I head to their site, type "guitar" in the search bar, and then just explore. I am fascinated by the amount of new twists and turns out their from guitars, to guitar picks, to guitar pedals. A couple months back I discovered a project called "The Germ". This project caught my attention because it was a germanium fuzz pedal hybrid that is hand wired, once I heard the demo I was sold. The project was successfully funded, and at the time of this writing I am still waiting for my Germ. After all, it's being built completely by hand one at a time. So while I waited, I figured I would contact the builder, Caleb Cook, for an interview.

Once my pedal gets here I will post an episode with some audio demos, in the mean time you can check out Caleb's Kickstarter page and the Hazel Effects website for more details.