Like a lot of you guys, I've had several boost pedals and tried the usual suspects - Tube Screamers, Super Overdrives, Fulltone stuff, Keeley mods, Monte mods, the indyguitarist guy mods, etc.
Heck, I even used a legendary tones time machine boost and a george lynch boost for awhile.
Came across something that I had to share though - it's called a tri-boost pedal. www.buildyourownclone.com sells kits. For around $100 shipped (and you build it yourself) you can have a really awesome boost pedal. It has three modes:
mode 1 - clean booster.
mode 2 - mosfet booster
mode 3 - germanium booster with a switch that makes it a treble booster, mid booster or full range.
Nifty part is, when you switch modes, the LED changes color - green for clean, blue for mosfet, red for germanium. Only other control other than the germanium switch is a volume control. That's it. Full bypass too, and can use a boss 9v adapter.
None of the modes generate much dirt on their own. What they do is slam the heck out of the front end of a tube amp, and better IMHO than the stuff I listed above, except for possibly the legendary tones stuff, which is a lot more expensive. From my memory though I dig this pedal more than the time machine or lynch boost, but I could be wrong. They are awful close though.
I built a stock triboost and it just screams with our amps. Yeah, it can add noise, but nothing is totally free - add gain, get more noise, it's the way of the world. But the tone is killer. I had more gain and saturation with the boost pedal in front and the gain on 25% than I did with gain full up and no boost on my recto module. Plus it was tighter.
I may build a few of these here and there and sell 'em (with some mods I already figured would improve the tone of these a bit, and maybe crazy paint jobs) but they are a great deal even if you build the kit yourself.
Just thought I'd share. Look in the fx part of the board for pics of mine - I did some swirly stuff on a few pedals
Pete
Heck, I even used a legendary tones time machine boost and a george lynch boost for awhile.
Came across something that I had to share though - it's called a tri-boost pedal. www.buildyourownclone.com sells kits. For around $100 shipped (and you build it yourself) you can have a really awesome boost pedal. It has three modes:
mode 1 - clean booster.
mode 2 - mosfet booster
mode 3 - germanium booster with a switch that makes it a treble booster, mid booster or full range.
Nifty part is, when you switch modes, the LED changes color - green for clean, blue for mosfet, red for germanium. Only other control other than the germanium switch is a volume control. That's it. Full bypass too, and can use a boss 9v adapter.
None of the modes generate much dirt on their own. What they do is slam the heck out of the front end of a tube amp, and better IMHO than the stuff I listed above, except for possibly the legendary tones stuff, which is a lot more expensive. From my memory though I dig this pedal more than the time machine or lynch boost, but I could be wrong. They are awful close though.
I built a stock triboost and it just screams with our amps. Yeah, it can add noise, but nothing is totally free - add gain, get more noise, it's the way of the world. But the tone is killer. I had more gain and saturation with the boost pedal in front and the gain on 25% than I did with gain full up and no boost on my recto module. Plus it was tighter.
I may build a few of these here and there and sell 'em (with some mods I already figured would improve the tone of these a bit, and maybe crazy paint jobs) but they are a great deal even if you build the kit yourself.
Just thought I'd share. Look in the fx part of the board for pics of mine - I did some swirly stuff on a few pedals
Pete
