Boost Pedal

Well. I'm taking the plunge on the BB preamp. I'm having my pedalboard rewired, and I have room for another pedal, so based on what you guys have said, I'm gonna throw that on there sight unseen! I'm bought one and am having it shipped to my pedalboard guy, along w/ my pedalboard. I'm excited. A BB, Sparkle Drive, Micro Vibe, Peterson Tuner, Crybaby from Hell, Line6 Modulation pedal will be my pedals. That's gonna rock!

I'm excited!!!

Eric
 
That should be a nice board Eric. Not too much stuff going on but still a nice collection of tone. The BB should fit in nicely.
 
muudrock":3spfndj0 said:
That should be a nice board Eric. Not too much stuff going on but still a nice collection of tone. The BB should fit in nicely.

I think so. I do use the Lexicon MPXG2 for most of my effects. Octafuzz, Phasers, Flangers, Compressors, Delays, Verbs, noise gates, and other weird effects come from it. I like to have a few effects that are outside of the "patching system," mainly the ones I use a lot. I use my Sparkle Drive a lot, and my microvibe some. I have the Line6 modulation setup for a "gain modulated" univibe tone (meaning the hotter the signal from my pickups, the faster it goes), a hard knee trem, a fender style trem, and a weird sounding flanger. That's the best Line6 pedal out there in my opinion. Has tons of great modulation effects. I've been really happy with it.

I try to do as much as I can w/ the Lexicon. I've been super happy with it over the years. I have one for each Eggie rig (m4 and mod50). With the Ground Control Pro, I can turn individual effects on and off of each patch at will w/ the instant access switches. It's nice because and can add let's say delay to any patch...or reverb to any patch...or add an octafuzz when I'm soloing for a cool effect, etc etc. Like having the pedals, or a GCX but without all the gear! The effects that go before the input of the amp are really good in the Lexicon. I use the Octafuzz, Tube Screamer, and phaser before the amp and the sound incredible!

Eric
 
bbaug14,

Just wanted to get back to this topic because I have been trying various pedals.

Starting to think all of these pedals are a big waste for me. Works for otheers. I run a ton of gain on the amp as is, so there is no volume boost with any of these and the mid boost is minimal. I am sticking with rack EQ/compression, in the loop.

I heard the Pure Drive is good. Right now I have a monte allums modded SD-1, borrowed Sparkle Drive, BB Preamp and Creation Audio Labs pedal on loan.

I think the thing I hate about all pedals, is that it sounds like a pedal. I prefer amp distortion so I might just stick to the plain old amp! One last pedal of consideration is the Creation Audio Labs Holy Fire because it is so darn transparent and natural like their clean boost pedal.

The BB works great opn the Fender modules and the lower gain modules, but it definitely imparts its own tone. Something like a Creation Audio Labs Holy Fire will give you whatever you need in terms of gain/overdrive but never touch your amp's core tone which is nice.

The other ones are not transparent, with all of them I can tell a pedal is on and that bothers me. I am trying to stay with using the loop instead.
 
graymatter":39vxjrsx said:
I have been using a custom volume pedal in the series loop with great results.
Basically its an MXR sized pedal with a volume knob on it that turns your volume down. Its controlled
by a latching switch so when the switch is engaged it bypasses the pedal and the volume goes up. It's kinda
like having someone at your amp turning it up and down :)

Is it anything like this one?
http://www.pedalgeek.com/cgi-bin/new_shop.cgi?config=&uid=VqZQiAAA1242232666&command=link--assb1

assb1_big.jpg
 
felineguitars":1dnze026 said:
graymatter":1dnze026 said:
I have been using a custom volume pedal in the series loop with great results.
Basically its an MXR sized pedal with a volume knob on it that turns your volume down. Its controlled
by a latching switch so when the switch is engaged it bypasses the pedal and the volume goes up. It's kinda
like having someone at your amp turning it up and down :)

Is it anything like this one?
http://www.pedalgeek.com/cgi-bin/new_shop.cgi?config=&uid=VqZQiAAA1242232666&command=link--assb1

assb1_big.jpg
Yes. Check out this topic... viewtopic.php?f=26&t=37244 :)
 
richedie":2xr571rj said:
I think the thing I hate about all pedals, is that it sounds like a pedal. I prefer amp distortion so I might just stick to the plain old amp! One last pedal of consideration is the Creation Audio Labs Holy Fire because it is so darn transparent and natural like their clean boost pedal.

The BB works great opn the Fender modules and the lower gain modules, but it definitely imparts its own tone.


Amps and pre-amps and tubes and everything in the chain impart their own tone too. As long as the pedal doesn't sound un-natural it's good for me. ;)
 
i'm gonna throw a dark horse into the ring:

hermida dual boost

i'll try to make some clips in the near future. i really want my friend neil do demo the pedal through my tol rig.
he checked out the pedal when i first got it, with his les paul, and it was eric johnson lead tone city!

i still love the bb for it's tone knife sharpening skills on the rounder eggie dirty ch 3/4 tones though, and it adds a dirty tone to the clean channel as well.
 
3 Mile Stone":43gqrizz said:
richedie":43gqrizz said:
I think the thing I hate about all pedals, is that it sounds like a pedal. I prefer amp distortion so I might just stick to the plain old amp! One last pedal of consideration is the Creation Audio Labs Holy Fire because it is so darn transparent and natural like their clean boost pedal.

The BB works great opn the Fender modules and the lower gain modules, but it definitely imparts its own tone.


Amps and pre-amps and tubes and everything in the chain impart their own tone too. As long as the pedal doesn't sound un-natural it's good for me. ;)

I completely know what you mena, but man the Creation Audio Labs Holy Fire does the least of any pedal of impacting the tone! It sounds by far the most natural! Like turning up the gain, overdrive or dist on your amp!!!!!
 
mentoneman":6ikdy7xs said:
i'm gonna throw a dark horse into the ring:

hermida dual boost

i'll try to make some clips in the near future. i really want my friend neil do demo the pedal through my tol rig.
he checked out the pedal when i first got it, with his les paul, and it was eric johnson lead tone city!


Oh yea, I noticed that one come along and it is definitely on my radar, with a big 'ol blip. Set one for line drive, set the other for leads or set one for buckers and the other for single coils. Way awesome stuff that Alf builds.
 
richedie":2ef1rag1 said:
I completely know what you mena, but man the Creation Audio Labs Holy Fire does the least of any pedal of impacting the tone! It sounds by far the most natural! Like turning up the gain, overdrive or dist on your amp!!!!!


Whoa, that sounds really cool!!!!
 
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