Ime it needs a little tweaking by hand-selecting the transistor, the original and best? The humble Graphic EQ is a very versatile pedal and a must-have secret weapon.
My current fav is one I build straight into a guitar. The circuit is so small I did a p-to-p on the back of its pot. Add one lithium 9V which will last it forever and it's good to go. It is not a novelty effect but a very usable sound but like I said you can substitute a Graphic EQ which can be used for other stuff too such as altering the sound of an adjacent OD box. Sep 6, 8. Sep 6, 9. The booster really gives the guitar the jingle-jangle sound and the compressor gives it sustain.
A treble booster can really change the sound of a Tele or Strat. Built mine long ago from Andertons book. One IC and a few parts gives you a noise-free sound. Sep 6, Posts: 12, It turns a Tele and Vox rig into a weapon. Sep 7, Posts: 9, Just think of the classic clean, crunch, lead scheme we are used to: in the 60s and most of the 70s these standards did not exist and every musician used to find his own sound his own equipment.
Actually this is one of the most obvious reasons why we recognize some guitarists immediately, just like listening to the voice of a very famous singer. The vintage amplifiers conceived in the past, were designed to sound clean and the distortion for the builders and musicians too was a negative side effect, until one fine day, the creativity of such a Jimi Hendrix led him to explore this territory called distortion: discovering that by raising the volume of the amp, beyond a certain threshold, the valves or tubes could no longer amplify, but began to compress until they reached the typical tube distortion that we know well today.
Since that day, everything has changed and, in addition to the right merits referring to the revolutionary musical contribution, all the honors for this literally modified guitar sound must be recognized to this young guy from Seattle. Once this new approach to guitar has been consolidated, at least in the United States and the United Kingdom, other young musicians have started experimenting and working on distortion and some builders and craftsmen of the time have started to produce specific instruments, one of these has been precisely the treble booster.
As mentioned in the previous paragraph, to reach saturation an amplifier must be pushed to very high volumes being very loud, above all the amplifiers of the past, this prerogative involves an inevitable chain reaction: the preamplifier pushes on the phase-shifting valve by compressing it, the phase shifter carries the power tubes providing to saturate the output transformer of a high pressure that transferred to the speakers, tend to modify also heavily his response.
This is to say that an amplifier in full tube saturation is in an out of control situation, and returning to the fact that an amplifier was not designed to distort, upgrades were adopted to drive the amplifier to distort in a more musical way.
These upgrades were treble boosts most of the time. Greuter Audio Fokus review: A boost to cut through the mix and the competition. Essential Guides. Jargonbuster: Overdrive — how to understand your overdrive pedal. Buyer's Guides. The best guitar pedals to buy in 10 best pedals for praise and worship music. All Advanced Beginner Intermediate. Learn to play guitar like David Gilmour in five minutes. Chord Clinic: Learn to play 10 interesting E major chord variations. Learn to play guitar like Chuck Berry in five minutes.
Guides Essential Guides. All About… Boosts. By Huw Price. Bluesy boosts Advertisement. FUR on their 60s influences, left-field guitars and big-band jazz Features 12th November Features 12th November The more drive, the more pronounced the bass becomes, which is why a treble booster works better than a full range boost for overdriving a tube amp and why they are so popular.
There are several "rangemaster" clones available that also offer a full range boost, but this option usually results in a muddy, bass heavy sound when pushing an overdriven amp. It's just like when you dime a JTM A treble booster not only adds gain and grit, but compensates for the increased bass response when the amp is overdriven.
Wow, guys, this is really great and I very much appreciate all the responses You guys ARE aware that they now make treble boosters with a range knob that allows you to dial in anything from the original treble boost to a mid boost to a full range boost And yes they are technically a mild 1 transistor fuzz with a primitive filter tacked on that rolls off the bass. Change the capacitor value in the filter and you change the rolloff point.
Unlike the fuzz face, TB's have enough volume on tap to boost the front end of an amp. Like the fuzz face they tend to sound great into a cranked marshall and also clean up very well when rolling back the volume knob on your guitar. I've got an Electro Harmonix Screaming Bird and although it's obviously cheap and somewhat limited, it really helps in my case to get my leads to cut through where my AC15 doesn't have a lot of headroom. I picked it up to get an idea of how treble boosters work, and it's been successful enough that I think I'm going to upgrade to one of the nicer TBs.
On that note, has anyone tried the new Boss FB2? FatTeleTom Member. Greg Fryer builds the treble boosters that Brian May uses these days Fryer also rebuilt Brian's home made guitar a few years back. So, you are getting a big level boost, but one that is centered around that 3 KHz mark. So, both the "treble" and "booster" portions of the name are significant here. Run into the Normal channel of a cranked AC30 or any similar warm, already overdriven amp or pedal tone , you get two effects: more overdrive and sustain from pushing the amp harder, and a strong frequency boost centered around a range that seems to be a "sweet spot" for electric guitar and human hearing.
As noted by others, you do get some inherent overdrive flavor directly from the treble boost circuit as well, at least with some designs. My own experience is primarily limited to using a BBE Freq Boost pedal, usually run into a Barber Direct Drive or Small Fry, and with the Freq Boost first in line so that it responds nicely to rolling back the guitar volume.
The Freq Boost seems to be a fairly classic rendition of the treble booster--lots of gain with more or less the same frequency response as indicated in the Fryer PDF, plus some of its own grit when the guitar volume is most of the way up. It really does turn out to be a great way to get a significantly more overdriven tone while retaining a really sweet clarity -- something that tends to get lost if you just crank the gain on an amp or OD box.
The frequency response is also more noticeable and pleasing in a band situation.
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