One year later, these are still available... so only 1973 people have bought them I guess! Sounds like the germanium setting is a "tighter" distortion plus sound. Maybe this is the distortion plus with built in EQ I always go on about. I have an RR Disto+ on one of my boards right now into a GE-10 because without EQ, i find it useless unless I want an alternate fuzz.