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Post by DonaldDemon on Jul 1, 2011 8:49:02 GMT -5
For those looking to get a little more saturation to their Splawn at times I wanted to offer the suggestion of using a treble booster. I mention it because most people wouldn’t think to look into these for boosting high gain amps. Despite the name, a good treble booster doesn’t have to actually boost treble!
The key is to buy, build, or have someone make you a treble booster with a variable gain knob. I had one built into an enclosure by a great pedal builder friend from another forum and have been absolutely loving it into gear 1/OD-1.
I consider it a fuzz-lite, where the boost uses germanium transistors to get a warm yet slightly gritty, fuzzy OD. It may not be the tone for everyone but a cool sound nonetheless. Mine is based off of the very expensive DAM Red Rooster and has 3 knobs; volume, gain, and range. I think well selected germanium diodes are also key to getting the warmth and thickness. Check one out if you get the chance.
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Post by shreder75 on Jul 1, 2011 9:40:33 GMT -5
boosts are for the weak....you know this already
LOL
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Post by rocknrolla on Jul 1, 2011 10:06:41 GMT -5
Heresey! My right hand is all the boost I need. And I just realized how that must sound.
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Post by Dirrty Craig on Jul 1, 2011 12:56:27 GMT -5
For every hour I work on my alternate picking a germanium diode bursts into flames.  |
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Post by DonaldDemon on Jul 3, 2011 17:07:36 GMT -5
oh boy, sorry for mentioning it! lol Pro tip: you can have good technique and still use pedals for different tones. The more you know...
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Post by outlier on Jul 15, 2011 11:10:31 GMT -5
Germanium diodes? What treble booster uses diodes for clipping? Do you mean germanium transistor by chance? If someone is incorporating diodes, then they've built a fuzz or overdrive for you.
If I am not mistaken, some treble boosts as used by Ritchie Blackmore had silicon transistors. I'm building a copy of the Hornby-Skewes treble booster with the mods said to be done on Ritchie's treble booster. I've put in sockets for the portions that are modded in case I don't care for or have to otherwise tweak the sound.
There's a photo of one of Ritchie's HS treble boosters in a special issue of Young Guitar magazine in which a control is added with a Marshall amp knob. This, it's assumed was an output control (HS treble boosters didn't have one). So I'm adding that as well.
After I finish this one, I'll build one with the PNP transistor. I've avoided that for the first one as I didn't feel like dealing with a positive ground.
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Post by DonaldDemon on Aug 17, 2011 14:13:17 GMT -5
Germanium diodes? What treble booster uses diodes for clipping? Do you mean germanium transistor by chance? If someone is incorporating diodes, then they've built a fuzz or overdrive for you. If I am not mistaken, some treble boosts as used by Ritchie Blackmore had silicon transistors. I'm building a copy of the Hornby-Skewes treble booster with the mods said to be done on Ritchie's treble booster. I've put in sockets for the portions that are modded in case I don't care for or have to otherwise tweak the sound. There's a photo of one of Ritchie's HS treble boosters in a special issue of Young Guitar magazine in which a control is added with a Marshall amp knob. This, it's assumed was an output control (HS treble boosters didn't have one). So I'm adding that as well. After I finish this one, I'll build one with the PNP transistor. I've avoided that for the first one as I didn't feel like dealing with a positive ground. Whoops! My bad, just checked this thread, I DID mean transistors! It’s an NPN Ge transistor, I want to say easy face or OC71? I'll try and find a gut shot. That Blackmore RM sounds cool! Post a pic when you are done  |
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Post by cecilbag on Aug 19, 2011 9:49:52 GMT -5
Some players throw out pics, Dirty Craig throws out melted tubescreamers
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Post by Rikk Morosini on Sept 1, 2012 13:06:36 GMT -5
Germanium diodes? What treble booster uses diodes for clipping? Do you mean germanium transistor by chance? If someone is incorporating diodes, then they've built a fuzz or overdrive for you. If I am not mistaken, some treble boosts as used by Ritchie Blackmore had silicon transistors. I'm building a copy of the Hornby-Skewes treble booster with the mods said to be done on Ritchie's treble booster. I've put in sockets for the portions that are modded in case I don't care for or have to otherwise tweak the sound. There's a photo of one of Ritchie's HS treble boosters in a special issue of Young Guitar magazine in which a control is added with a Marshall amp knob. This, it's assumed was an output control (HS treble boosters didn't have one). So I'm adding that as well. After I finish this one, I'll build one with the PNP transistor. I've avoided that for the first one as I didn't feel like dealing with a positive ground. John, I want one AND your new overdrive your building. I sent you an email. |
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Post by speedemon on Sept 7, 2012 20:47:25 GMT -5
Since we can't all be Dirrty Craig, I have started using a GE7 for leads. Someday when I am doing gigs that last longer than warming up the amp, I will be ditching it. lol
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Post by splatter on Sept 9, 2012 13:25:41 GMT -5
boosts are for the weak....you know this already LOL +1 |
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