Tone Enhancing Pedal

VJIves

I use a Boss FB-2 on my cleans and a Boss EH-2 after my Frantone Cream Puff, which is just about the greatest sound I've ever heard.

BintyTwanger77

I am always recommending this pedal, but honestly a Fairfield Accountant compressor into a clean BF Fender amp is a fat, full, sparkly thing of beauty.

builttospill

Current faves through my PRRI are the Super Hard On in the Zvex Double Rock, RYRA (beautiful clean boost) and an EP Booster when I had one. A TS-808 set as a clean boost was fantastic too.  

Vaiai

I'll go for EP Booster too (always on) - miss mine and altho I am full Helix, I am considering adding that to the mix again

builttospill

Diamond Compressor was a great tone enhancer too

Jonathanthomas83

Gonna get killed for this, but a Cornish buffer will do wonders. 

builttospill

CTC Blackface Stardust, not a clean boost or tone enhancer but a bloody good OD for the Princeton Reverb excellent use at low volumes. Fave of Jim Campilongo also.

Gassage

Jonathanthomas83 said:

Gonna get killed for this, but a Cornish buffer will do wonders. 

I almost broke the wisdom button there, so quickly did I move to support you.

builttospill

BintyTwanger77 said:

I am always recommending this pedal, but honestly a Fairfield Accountant compressor into a clean BF Fender amp is a fat, full, sparkly thing of beauty.

I'd like to try one of these...  

ESBlonde

It depends what else you have in the chain and what the amp is. Compression is a nice to have if used well and you understand the effect on treble. An aural exciter well tuned can put sizzel on a tone and give strats that plugged in the board 80s tone among other things. If you're plugged into a nice single chanel valve amp then any overall signal boost can enhance the lovelyness that the amp imparts on the tone.

thomasw88

BBE Sonic Stomp -  although I just leave it on all the time.
A klon clone can add some sparkle.

mynamesnotbob

I use an EP drive, and source audio EQ. Also a Cali76 for comp, for a boost I add a BD-2 with zero gain as it opens it up, with a push in the EQ (EQ is in the loop)

EricTheWeary

builttospill said:

CTC Blackface Stardust, not a clean boost or tone enhancer but a bloody good OD for the Princeton Reverb excellent use at low volumes. Fave of Jim Campilongo also.

Wisdom given for mentioning Jim  I saw the CTC on his website, he seems to go through a lot of posh overdrives ( despite not using them much) but I think he likes that as a match for the Princeton. 

bacchanalian

I like the J Rockett Lenny. Reasonably subtle but nice.

jellybelly

My Snouse Blackbox does this job very well. It's so low gain that anything up to halfway is essentially clean with single coils. It's got a fantastic natural compression and roundness to it and it gives a little when you dig in. I would happily use it as my entire preamp. 

BintyTwanger77

bacchanalian said:

I like the J Rockett Lenny. Reasonably subtle but nice.

I'd recommend the JRockett Blue Note (tour series version) as well.

peteri

Any Klone - trust me

Jonathanthomas83

Gassage said:

Jonathanthomas83 said:

Gonna get killed for this, but a Cornish buffer will do wonders. 

I almost broke the wisdom button there, so quickly did I move to support you.

:-) I knew you'd back me up! 

djspecialist

jellybelly said:

My Snouse Blackbox does this job very well. It's so low gain that anything up to halfway is essentially clean with single coils. It's got a fantastic natural compression and roundness to it and it gives a little when you dig in. I would happily use it as my entire preamp. 

Love mine too, although I use it more as a light overdrive than a clean boost.

Do you have the BB2 or the original?  If BB2, which mode do you run?

jellybelly

djspecialist said:

jellybelly said:

My Snouse Blackbox does this job very well. It's so low gain that anything up to halfway is essentially clean with single coils. It's got a fantastic natural compression and roundness to it and it gives a little when you dig in. I would happily use it as my entire preamp. 

Love mine too, although I use it more as a light overdrive than a clean boost.

Do you have the BB2 or the original?  If BB2, which mode do you run?

It's the original, though given how much I like it I've considered getting one of the more complex versions! I usually have it set (oclock) gain - 11, tone - 12, volume - 1. I wouldn't say it's strictly a clean setting like this, but when I can't turn my amp up to get that slight edge, warmth and compression it does wonders, with single coils at least! When I've used it with humbuckers the gain needs to come down to about 10 o'clock, it sounds wussy below that! 

I used it with a th a couple of amps live - my trusty MJW V20-ish thing, where it basically gives more of the same character but a little softer, and an MJW Electra 'Twang' which is blackface 6L6-y, where it made a fender clean into a Marshall clean. 

Id never gig without it, it just makes everything better. It stacks brilliantly into my timmy which I have set for a fairly flat crunch. Together they get a great boosted Marshall tone.