Wanted: The impossible?

Jonathanthomas83

@zepp76 good luck with your search mate. 

I'm really looking forward to getting my Power Booster. I was messing about with the TD-X last night and it gets lovely boost tones, but there's a very small window on the gain control where you can dial a clean tone. With the Power Booster, what I love about it is that range is much wider and it delivers a really warm clean boost that is synonymous with a certain someone many of us love and try our best (and mostly fail) to emulate! :-)

ICBM

Sounds like you want a slightly rough-sounding compressor - not obviously overdriven, but not 'studio clean' either.

MXR Dyna Comp - don't set the sensitivity too high or it will start to sound squashy. Or a Boss CS-2 if you want a bit more control - there's a reason both of these are on a lot of rock star's pedalboards even today.

wellsyboy

zepp76 said:

I've just checked out the Ethos Overdive on YouTube, man what a pedal! I checked it out after seeing it for sale in @wellsyboy  ad in the classifieds. It's a shame it's well out of my budget though, the clean boost channel is sublime.

It's more a preamp than a clean boost

zepp76

wellsyboy said:

zepp76 said:

I've just checked out the Ethos Overdive on YouTube, man what a pedal! I checked it out after seeing it for sale in @wellsyboy  ad in the classifieds. It's a shame it's well out of my budget though, the clean boost channel is sublime.

It's more a preamp than a clean boost

 Either way it sounds great! I know you were after a Muffroom cloud, I have one but just can't bring myself to part with it otherwise we could have come to a deal. Christmas shopping has pretty much crippled my pedal fund for this year now, I'll see what I can do though.

JezWynd

ThePrettyDamned said:

handsomerik said:

Graphic eq

Does anyone remember when these were really commonplace on boards? I still miss mine, a ge7, but it hissed too much and this was before I knew it could be modded. 

Danelectro Fish 'n Chips will do the job, quieter than the Boss.

wellsyboy

zepp76 said:

wellsyboy said:

zepp76 said:

I've just checked out the Ethos Overdive on YouTube, man what a pedal! I checked it out after seeing it for sale in @wellsyboy  ad in the classifieds. It's a shame it's well out of my budget though, the clean boost channel is sublime.

It's more a preamp than a clean boost

 Either way it sounds great! I know you were after a Muffroom cloud, I have one but just can't bring myself to part with it otherwise we could have come to a deal. Christmas shopping has pretty much crippled my pedal fund for this year now, I'll see what I can do though.

Yeah, Christmas is a bitch!

zepp76

That pedal show have released quite a good show on clean sounds, it doesn't help me in my quest but it's good all the same.

timhulio

So you'd just like to make your guitar louder? The MXR Micro Amp is good for this.

zepp76

timhulio said:

So you'd just like to make your guitar louder? The MXR Micro Amp is good for this.

Yes, it's as simple as that.  

timhulio

Good-o. Problem solved. 

For a clean boost that's actually clean, the Micro Amp is an easy and affordable choice.

Voxman

BBE Boosta Grand.  In the effects loop it will provide a completely clean boost with a slightly fattened tone (kind of like a mid-boost) - your tone will be clean, but with more 'balls'. In front of the amp, it will provide a volume boost but also some gain like a warm, mild overdrive.  An EQ pedal will also be clean in the FX loop and add gain in front of the amp as you raise the 'level'.