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Posts tagged "Pedals"
Amptweaker‘s newest pedal is the TightBoost, a boost pedal with some nifty extras built-in. Along with True-Bypass, the TightBoost comes with four controls: Boost, High, Mid, and Tight. While the Boost and High controls do what you expect them to, the Mid features a parked wah tone that increases gradually when the control is cranked past 12 o’ clock. A switch below the Mid control lets you choose between two frequencies for the wah, one is a ‘classic throaty wah tone’ while the other sounds ‘pushed forward.’ These were the two favorite frequencies selected by local guitarists at the Nashville Amp Expo. The Tight control adjusts between a smooth, looser sound and a more aggressive and focused tone. You can achieve a wide array of tones by setting the Boost knob anywhere from clean to tube-like breakup and then adjusting the other three controls. Amptweaker makes things even more interesting with the addition of an effects loop on the back of the pedal, allowing you to add compression, EQ, delay or distortion – all of which can be set to Pre or Post the Tighboost via a switch underneath the unit. Check out this excellent demo of the pedal in […]... Click on the title for more
Finland-based amp and pedal manufacturer Mad Professor has begun shipping their new Ruby Red Booster pedal ($169). This pedal is a combination of two boosters, based on the BJF Little Red Trebler and the Red Rooster Booster, and you can use it as a treble boost, clean boost, or as an overdrive pedal. The Booster circuit in this unit boasts 40dB of gain, which allows you to achieve heavy overdrive at high settings, while the treble boost has 15dB of gain and is frequency and bandwidth tuned to help your treble cut through the mix. The master volume control lets you adjust output when using the pedal for distortion, and it also controls the tonal level of the two boosters. Depending on how you set the three controls, the pedal can provide nice clean gain or loads of overdrive, and anything in between. Additionally, inside the Ruby Red Booster there is a switch that will set the pedal to either buffered or true bypass mode, depending on your pedalboard situation. –Mike Bauer... Click on the title for more