Today's Treble Booster Users

Dr.Mavashi

Dr.Mavashi

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Allright you have Aanalog man and of course the BSM who make these today, hardcore boutique style. Who uses those today from fairly known players? or perhaps can you think of a track in the last say 15 years where you know a Treble Booster was used to push the amp? Thanks dudes.
 
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Man I'd just about give my left nut for a good rangemaster clone. I'd trade my Fulltone Fulldrive and my 80's vintage MXR Distortion + even for a really good one. I tried building one back in the day, but it apparently had a bad transistor with output so low that it was very pathetic and anemic. I know I wired it up correctly and followed the schematic with excrutiating detail. I even swapped things around in case I had something backwards. Nothing worked. Now I just want a good one and I'll trade/sell something costly to get it.
 
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Guitarists today? I know David Gilmour still uses one. Maybe Tony Iommi. Not sure who else, but I'm sure there's a good handful. Probably most of them are guys from the 60s and 70s who built their sound in part on treble boosts, and still keep that as part of their sound today.

Aside from a tuner, a good treble boost is the most important pedal to me. I own two that are strictly treble boosts, the Keeley Time Machine Boost and the BSM OR Treble Booster. Love 'em both. LOVE 'em! I suppose one day I'll get another one or two boosts, just because although they are meant to do essentially the same thing, each pedal is very different.

- Keith
 
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It's pretty well known that Mike built the first Beano boost for Iommi and he still uses it today. Mike has also sent Billy Gibbons a few Beano boost pedals and Billy also recently bought an original Dallas Rangemaster (funny part is that he said his Beano sounded better!) Billy is said to be using the Beano all over the new ZZ Top album. Brian May still uses his Cornish boosters. Chris Durate uses a Diaz Texas ranger (which is a Rangemaster clone) almost all the time. Marc Ford (Black Crowes) uses both a Beano Boost and a Sunlion (which is a Beano boost and a Fuzz Face in one box) on his board...the Beano in the Sunlion is after the Fuzz and he has a seperate Beano before the fuzz! Audley Freed (Black Crows, Cry of Love, Dixie Chicks, Peter Frempton) also uses a Beano boost. Greg Martin (Kentucky Headhunters) uses one a good bit, his is also a Beano boost. Scott Henderson (Studio God) uses a Beano boost. Brad Whitford (Aerosmith) also has a Rangemaster clone on his board, it's the Divided by 13 version but it's there. Peter Stroud (Sheryl Crow) uses a Rangemaster clone built by his own amp company, 65 amps, theirs is called the Colour Boost. There are more but thats all I got right now...

Here is a clip of Audley Freed using his Beano with an SG and a Matchless Lightning...wait until around 5:30...he is using the beano set to around half on the volume control and the tone switch set to the mid boost position...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTA0CV6ULtU
 
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I dunno why it isn't popular these days. There are a ton of builders selling clones too. I built a Rangemaster for myself and really love its unique sound.Even when used with a SS rig to push a good distortion/fuzz box, it sounds great. I know it excels with a tube amp, but whatever I heard with the SS rig itself made me quite happy:)
 
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They are not more popular today because there are more options...when the Dallas rangemaster came out it was more than likely the ONLY thing on the market to boost your signal...the only other thing around at that time were Fuzz boxes...today there are millions of boost, fuzz, overdrive, and distortion pedals...
 
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the guy who invented fire said:
They are not more popular today because there are more options...when the Dallas rangemaster came out it was more than likely the ONLY thing on the market to boost your signal...the only other thing around at that time were Fuzz boxes...today there are millions of boost, fuzz, overdrive, and distortion pedals...
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I still like the way a treble boost shapes my tone better than most overdrives, but you typically have to use it with the right amp -- specifically, one that's already pushed.

- Keith
 
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I love the Keeley Time Machine Boost. Does treble and other kinds too.
 
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You guys are making me feel inferior. I got a lowly BBE Freq Boost from Santa last year. When I heard a sound clip of it I recognized the rude sound from a lot of classic 70's rock tunes, and decided I had to get one. I was a good boy, so now my pedalboard has a Freq Boost.
You can definitely hear that classic treble boost sound in a lot of the guitarists (Gilmour, May, Billy G) that you guys have mentioned.
 
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Kosh Naranek said:
You guys are making me feel inferior. I got a lowly BBE Freq Boost from Santa last year. When I heard a sound clip of it I recognized the rude sound from a lot of classic 70's rock tunes, and decided I had to get one. I was a good boy, so now my pedalboard has a Freq Boost.
You can definitely hear that classic treble boost sound in a lot of the guitarists (Gilmour, May, Billy G) that you guys have mentioned.
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Don't forget early Clapton and Blackmore!
 
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the guy who invented fire said:
They are not more popular today because there are more options...when the Dallas rangemaster came out it was more than likely the ONLY thing on the market to boost your signal...the only other thing around at that time were Fuzz boxes...today there are millions of boost, fuzz, overdrive, and distortion pedals...
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That may be true, but you cannot get the same sound out of any other circuit. Nothing but a Rangemaster sounds like a Rangemaster.

And +1 on early Clapton.... AnalogMan calls it 'Beano Boost' for a reason.
 
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I've got the Analogman in a sunlion and the Keeley Katana (I know, not a treble booster) and both of them really enhance all of my amps. I really have never found an OD or Distortion I get along with, but fuzzes and boosters, I LOVE them! I got the Analogman on a whim because so many artists I like from the past use the Rangemaster, but man was I surpsised how good it makes everything sound. The fact that AM uses the best transistors hand picked for the job helps a lot.
 
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I've been thinking of getting one to tighten up my metal sound, does anyone else do this? I need just a tad more oomph to get that distortion while keeping it from going flabby abd the treble boost should accomplish this right? Has anyone had any experience with the HBE treble boost?
 
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I love Rangemasters. I tried an original at a guitar show a few years back and loved the tone. Incredible sound. I've tried a few other clones as well and they all sounded good, the Beano taking the cake though out of the clones I tried. I've built one myself too and it came out sounding pretty good. It's a NPN version with a mil-spec transistor in it and a 2-way input cap switch (stock or full sound). I'm planning on building another one soon.
 
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telecaster887 said:
I've been thinking of getting one to tighten up my metal sound, does anyone else do this? I need just a tad more oomph to get that distortion while keeping it from going flabby abd the treble boost should accomplish this right? Has anyone had any experience with the HBE treble boost?
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I think you'd really like one!

George Lynch used one for a while a long time ago to pretty much just what you are talking about...
 
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