Treble Booster???

soma89 · Post by **soma89** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 2:23 am

hello,

I have a credit note at a music store and i wanna get a treble booster, preferrably under $150. Anybody know of any mass produced treble boosters out there? The store doesn't sell boutique or rare/vintage pedals. I've been looking at a bbe freq boost which looks ok, never really tried one out tho. I just want something that, teamed up with my ac15, will give me that vintage overdriven vox sound. Any ideas?

Will · Post by **Will** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:23 am

IDK of any non-boutique treble boosters besides the BBE. It's a good one, though, and yr certainly heading in the right direction. You could also look at something like a graphic EQ pedal.

Post by **Doog** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:17 am

I'd always choose a volume booster or EQ over a treble booster- I dunno about you guys, but I don't want my solos to be TREBLEY. I wan't them to be LOUDER.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:17 am

Something is in the post hopefully to achieve that.

I think treble boosters were generally used to achieve a dirty overdrive sound with clarity through a more bassy vintage tube amp.

Post by **Doog** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:22 am

Mike wrote:Something is in the post hopefully to achieve that.

Yeah, true enough, I haven't used one in the "classic" situation.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:24 am

Me either.

I've used them on Guitar Rig2 and then generally just removed it straightaway. My guitars have plenty of bite. I think humbuckers is part of the deal also.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:21 am

I got a screaming tree clone my Dad built. It's shriiiiill. I like it, audiences hate it.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:06 pm

i have a germanium dallas range-master clone that i made. people like brian may, tony iommi and ritchie blackmore used them to boost the input input there amps. they can be quite toppy, the dallas i made is, plus it doesn't have an on off switch, which pisses me off. it does sound nice going into low wattage valve amps to give them a bit of grit.

it uses an oc71 transistor, bring on the queen coupleatones lol

Post by **Mike** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:42 pm

You could add a switch to that fair easy if you wanted mate.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:44 pm

i need to, not done much electronics work for years, so i'm a bit rusty.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:51 pm

I could walk you through it no bother, spec if you're not worried about an LED. You can get a 2PDT footswitch from Maplin in fact

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:53 pm

that'd be cool mike thanks, sorry to hijack thread, soma

soma89 · Post by **soma89** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:53 pm

Progrockabuse wrote:that'd be cool mike thanks, sorry to hijack thread, soma

lol np

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:29 pm

That Dallas Rangemaster and the many clones of it is one of the 10 best pedal designs ever built. It' so simple but the amount of great records it's been on is astonishing.

Clapton, Rory Gallagher, Iommi, Marc Bolan(T. Rex), and Brian may in Queen used it at some point to make great records. But most of you guys seem to hate your nation's best players, so I don't know what gives.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:51 pm

jcyphe wrote:But most of you guys seem to hate your nation's best players, so I don't know what gives.

Dude, everyone knows how proficient you are on your instrument is directly proportional to how full of yourself you are, get with the times. There's a precarious balance to be straddled.

I think I can safely say that I'm now shit enough to be good, it took some time to unlearn but the advent of the Kaiser Chiefs was a big, big help.

Those people who are into such musical self-indulgences like vibrato and phrasing are incapable of invoking emotion, I mean they're not even singing about loose chicks, or other bands in the charts that they don't like. Where's the art in that?

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:53 pm

Teh Kurdt didn't use one, so how good could it really be?

James · Post by **James** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:14 am

I trhink the majority of treble boosters will be based on the rangemaster.

ebay search link

The circuit is very simple and you could probably build yourself one for under $30, definitely under $50. If you aren't too confident of your soldering skills you could ask Mike from this forum if he'll put one together for you.

schematic link

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:39 am

jcyphe wrote:most of you guys seem to hate your nation's best players, so I don't know what gives.

Which nation would that be?

Post by **dots** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:55 am

jcyphe wrote: Clapton, Rory Gallagher, Iommi, Marc Bolan(T. Rex), and Brian may in Queen used it at some point to make great records. But most of you guys seem to hate your nation's best players, so I don't know what gives.

LAWL

soma89 · Post by **soma89** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:29 am

James wrote:I trhink the majority of treble boosters will be based on the rangemaster.

ebay search link

The circuit is very simple and you could probably build yourself one for under $30, definitely under $50. If you aren't too confident of your soldering skills you could ask Mike from this forum if he'll put one together for you.

schematic link

Thanks a lot, I might try it but i have to admit i'm 100% ignorant to any sort of "build-your-own pedal" thing but i guess u gotta start somewhere. Will it be hard to make a treble booster with true bypass? I want a dallas rangemaster clone with true bypass but i really can't spend $300 on some boutique one. I like the sound of me making my own pedal for cheap....

EDIT: I just took a look at the schematic for the rangemaster and I've realized how little i know about this stuff, does anyone know any links of websites that explain the whole process for beginners that have no experience with these things?