Re: Bargain boost
Hands down the Fulltone 2B, for me anyway. Great front end buffer as well. Also vastly superior quality over the popular bargain pedal lines which I just cannot use anymore.
The 2B is not costly but gets my pick for a low cost killer boost/buffer.
There is no way I consider the "SoulFood" a Klon. Archer ticks it closer but vastly better than EH. As Finnegan has stated when you change the layout and component substitutions you get a different circuit. A lot of things "sound like" things but not the same circuit. When Finnegan made the KTR Klon he stated it was not the same circuit because the original could not be built any more and the KTR was as close as he could get to it.
Remember that older PGS demo blind test of a Lovepedal Kalamazoo and a real Klon, most picked the Kalamazoo as the real and better sounding Klon, and it is a totally different tubescreamer mod type circuit. Ears are deceiving measuring tools that's why we use electronic measurement equipment. You demo a cheap pedal with a nice guitar and good amp and of course it is going to sound decent but is that a need to try and buy the cheapest gear available? If that is what motivates one to play, have at it.
I'll tell you a wicked cool boost which uses a real tube, hot internal amp level plate voltage, the Blackstar boost for $100 from PGS. Not a really super clean pedal but sends an amp or other pedals into sonic heaven. I could not believe that was only a $100 with amp level tube plate voltage. I wish I could use it but right now does not fit my layout. That 2B is amazing quality for the bucks, beats the hell of out Mooer and whatnot.
