Hey all!
Do any of you use treble boosters? If so, which / how?
I've always loved the tones of guys like Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, and Brian May, who famously used treble boosters. However, I always found the treble booster concept a bit odd – how would your tone not become piercing and harsh? I would have experimented with a treble booster, but there aren't too many affordable options out there (or so it seemed).
Well, I was reading up on some of the features in the Prince of Tone, and I realized that I never properly played with the treble trim pot. With that in mind, I popped it open, cranked the treble trim pot all the way clockwise, and set it to a light overdrive. Now, it essentially drives the treble frequencies disproportionately, and WOW!
Now, on its own, it DOES sound harsh and a bit too biting, BUT, when used upstream of another kind of a dirt (e.g., my blackstar's gain channel, or a tube screamer, or a klon style light overdrive), the extra treble kick sounds FANTASTIC! It adds saturation and thickness to your high end, and actually ADDS clarity rather than making it muddier the way gain typically does!
Anyway, I've found a new use for my PoT, which I was actually considering selling before now. Before, it was another very good overdrive pedal to me that did a good job of preserving the natural sound of your guitar, but it also didn't offer anything special that I didn't get in another dirtbox. Now, its in a completely different location in my signal chain, and scratches a different itch I'd never addressed before!
Do any of you use treble boosters? If so, which / how?
I've always loved the tones of guys like Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, and Brian May, who famously used treble boosters. However, I always found the treble booster concept a bit odd – how would your tone not become piercing and harsh? I would have experimented with a treble booster, but there aren't too many affordable options out there (or so it seemed).
Well, I was reading up on some of the features in the Prince of Tone, and I realized that I never properly played with the treble trim pot. With that in mind, I popped it open, cranked the treble trim pot all the way clockwise, and set it to a light overdrive. Now, it essentially drives the treble frequencies disproportionately, and WOW!
Now, on its own, it DOES sound harsh and a bit too biting, BUT, when used upstream of another kind of a dirt (e.g., my blackstar's gain channel, or a tube screamer, or a klon style light overdrive), the extra treble kick sounds FANTASTIC! It adds saturation and thickness to your high end, and actually ADDS clarity rather than making it muddier the way gain typically does!
Anyway, I've found a new use for my PoT, which I was actually considering selling before now. Before, it was another very good overdrive pedal to me that did a good job of preserving the natural sound of your guitar, but it also didn't offer anything special that I didn't get in another dirtbox. Now, its in a completely different location in my signal chain, and scratches a different itch I'd never addressed before!
