Boost Pedals

Whimsy Machines Short Stack Preamp

The Whimsy Machines | Short Stack is a lot more than meets the eye: it's a Preamp/Boost that provides guitarists with a lot of options to reach that fleeting tone they hear in their heads. The four knobs already provide three stages of gain (Volume, Level and Gain, which is the…Click on the title for more

Whimsy Machines Short Stack Preamp

Moustache Audio Razor Boost/Fuzz

Moustached people are rarely boring, and pedal builder Moustache Audio keeps faith to that trait with pedal circuits that defy expectations. Their Razor is a boost that also double as... fuzz, using only two knobs and two toggle switches. The Gain knob delivers a wide range of tones from clean…Click on the title for more

Moustache Audio Razor Boost/Fuzz

Ground Control Noodles Tone Shaper

Montreal's Ground Control Audio just released their first pedal in two years, the Noodles. This is an original take on the tone-shaping box/boost with three EQ bands (Bass, Mids and Treble) each with their own footswitch, boost/cut knob, and a three-way push botton that gives you a choice of frequency…Click on the title for more

Ground Control Noodles Tone Shaper

Animals Pedal Dawn Ocean Meditation Booster

Japanese company Animals Pedal continues the collaboration with US boutique dirt-box masters Wren and Cuff with the release of a simple boost pedal with a long name: Dawn Ocean Meditation Booster. This is the third collaborative pedal of the two companies. The pedal is said to thicken the natural tone…Click on the title for more

Animals Pedal Dawn Ocean Meditation Booster

New Pedals: Catalinbread Dreamcoat/Skewer Box Set

Stompbox collectors lately have increasingly become the object of attention of pedal builders, who realized that releasing special, limited-edition versions of existing models represents an easy way to integrate their income in between original new releases. But a special edition doesn't necessarily have to involve already released circuits... Catalinbread's Dreamcoat/Skewer…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Catalinbread Dreamcoat/Skewer Box Set

Ground Control Audio Tsukuyomi Midrange Booster

Montreal's Ground Control Audio just unveiled a midrange booster called Tsukuyomi, a variation on their Amaterasu preamp circuit featuring a jfet frontend and a 20dB gain amplifier stage. Flipping the toggle switch gives you en extra boost in the 880Hz-1kHz range with an additional 12dB of signal gain. Tone advice from the…Click on the title for more

Ground Control Audio Tsukuyomi Midrange Booster

New Pedal: JD Analog Tone of the Gods

Since boost pedals are supposed to do a very simple job, we have grown to assume that they don't need to be very big. New Zealand builder JD Analog begs to disagree. With its 4-in-1 concept, their Tone Of the Gods is a four-footswitched, twelve-knobbed beast that aims at being…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: JD Analog Tone of the Gods

Stone Deaf FX Q Boost/Distortion

Father and son British pedal builders Stone Deaf FX released some ingenious and imaginative stompboxes in the past, but today they unveiled something rather simple yet extremely intriguing. At a first look, the (Mickey Mouse-themed) Q Boost appears to be a simple boost pedal/preamp with an extra, sweepable mid-frequency boost,…Click on the title for more

Stone Deaf FX Q Boost/Distortion

Teisco Distortion

Teisco unveiled this Classic British distortion pedal paired with a colored boost - it's simply called "Distortion." It offers plenty of tonal shaping possibilities, plus an optional extra gain stage to really ramp things up - all in a very stylish textured purple zinc case. The boost and distortion circuits…Click on the title for more

Teisco Distortion

New Pedal: BLAMMO! Electronics Voltage Booster

Portland's Blammo! Electronics builds hand-made guitar pedals often inspired by classic vintage circuits. Their brand new Voltage Booster is their take on the Colorsound Power Boost, one of the first overdrive circuits ever made back in the late '60s. The Voltage Booster is built around the original BC184L transistors and…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: BLAMMO! Electronics Voltage Booster

Electronic Audio Experiments 0xEAE Boost

Boston's Electronic Audio Experiments just came out with a striking-looking new pedal called 0xEAE Boost designed in collaboration with design collective Obstructures. Although it's presented as a booster, this device is more than just that, and definitely not a clean one: with its discrete op-amp gain stage pushed by a…Click on the title for more

Electronic Audio Experiments 0xEAE Boost

Vertex Boost MKII

Vertex Effects just unveiled V2 of their clean boost pedal simply named "Boost MKII." 33% slimmer than its predecessor, the Boost MKII is a high-end one-knob device that delivers up to 16dB of transparent gain, compatible with both line and instrument-level signals. The simple layout doesn't show the noteworthy engineering…Click on the title for more

Vertex Boost MKII