Analogman Beano Boost

[Boleslaw Gers 666]

This thing looks pretty sweet. Anyone use it?

 

[some_dude]

Re: Analogman Beano Boost

Yeah...here's a mini-review I wrote on it;

Pt1

It arrived in the mail today.

At first I felt kinda guilty spending that much on what's probably $20 worth of parts.....

.....then I plugged it in.

/guilt trip.


I'll write a mini review later.....I have an amp to go play.

Pt2

Strat tuned C#, EMG 85 (Brdige), volume 4-8, tone 0 -> Beano -> Recto -> Hotplate @ -12db

Used into the Recto's clean channel set to MkI mode with the gain around 14:00 it'll do some good crunchy rhythm, or that edgy dirty lead tone you get from boosting a dark mid gain amp. Very retro sounding.

Into the Recto's lead (modern) channel with the gain around 14:30 and the bass up (good for sludgy type stuff, bad for thrashy type stuff) it's more sag than I've ever gotten out of this thing. The boosted treble hits immediatly, but the bass note take a number of miliseconds before it finishes it's bloom. Normally there's your typical Mesa sag, but this is tremendously thick and sweet sounding sag. It makes for some really fat sounding riffs and the leads are like electrified soup.

Normally channel 2 raw is pretty useless with detuning....it's extremely dark, too undefined, and the notes don't sound out well at all. The Beano made it so that the notes rung clear and with good seperation.

Sounded best with the tone down. With the tone up things became pretty harsh pretty fast.

Tomorrow I'll try it with a standard tuned LP, but I'm outta time to play loud today. I'm looking forward to the first chance I have to pull the Hotplate back to -4db and/or 0db. :twisted:

I've since run it into my amp with the Hotplates bypassed. It still sounds sweet, though I did have to roll the presence back on my amp a little at such high volumes.

 

[Quencho092]

Re: Analogman Beano Boost

is the beano a dallas rangemaster replica? It comes to mind since clapton used it in the beano album with the bluesbreakers...

 

[Boleslaw Gers 666]

Re: Analogman Beano Boost

is the beano a dallas rangemaster replica? It comes to mind since clapton used it in the beano album with the bluesbreakers...

Exactly. The treble boost mode is supposedly the closest replica to the rangemaster. The sound clips are amazing.

 

[some_dude]

Re: Analogman Beano Boost

is the beano a dallas rangemaster replica? It comes to mind since clapton used it in the beano album with the bluesbreakers...

Yes.

From what I understand the first Beano was a Rangemaster clone they made for Iommi.