clean booster with tonestack and distortion switch?

[birt]

is there a clean booster with a tone stack? and is it possible to put a distortion switch on a clean booster by adding diodes or something?

[Mark Hammer]

is there a clean booster with a tone stack? and is it possible to put a distortion switch on a clean booster by adding diodes or something?

The ROG Tonemender is such a device, though it is not intended, stock, to be a big time booster.

As for adding a clipping function, it would depend on how much boost you plan to aim for.  A simple gain of 5 booster migh produce some clipping if you use germanium or Schottky diodes and picked really hard.  Keep in mind, though, that most of the deliberate diode-clipping pedals are going to aim for a gain of 50 or more.  If not, what you get is very intermittent and sporadic, clipping on the odd peak here and there, because the rest of what you play only exceeds the clipping threshold now and then.  When peole think "clipping", what they generally have in mind is something where the clipping action occurs not just at the initial transient in the first 100msec of the note, but something that lasts for a much greater part of the note lifespan.  Achieving that demands application of enough gain that the noe remains above clipping threshold over its decay cycle.

Of course, tonestacks are passive and eat up signal because of that.  This creates the need for even more gain being applied since the tonestack itself will drop signal level.

[birt]

then i think i will still go for the muffer with a switch on the diodes and try to add a tonestack.

[petemoore]

  OT>?
  What I wanted is 3 gain stages.
  Cleanish
  Dirty ish
  and Filthy clipping
  Kind of like a 3 speed wheel mobile, with the guitar volume control as the 'Accelerator'.
  I'm getting closer...
  I should take 'whats there' and design my own Super Clipper, Average OD, and Clean Twank tone box.
  Thing is that the ultimate boost or what I like is pretty easy, and that works great with the amp without resetting dials, just bypassing or not...voicing being the main tweek besides setting the volumes of Guitar, amp and booster.
  The 'least complicated' [or most certain to work for me without *redesigning the wheel...which is probably not a bad route]...is to use 'a boost, then have the OD and Fuzz on the other side of it's bypass switch...IOW probably the Fuzz would be a preboost into Fuzz [cause I like it], and so would the OD...that is a batch of circuits, a big box, and would do well to be run off of a PS becuase of current consumption.
  the *Redesigned wheel....
  Use 1 booster, but when Fuzz is engaged, the booster 'magically' [by way of say 3pdt bypass for fuzz Also modding the boost drive or output level], be reset to what the Fuzz 'likes to see' as input, and same for the OD...IOW changing 1 thing also changes 3 others, just adding circuits can also add noise...it's tricky to get the perfect 3 gain stages [Cleanish, OD & Fuzz] all in one...or maybe I'm just picky.
  or...the fact that I'm always re-ordering and modding stuff...
  So...there are different approaches, these are acouple I've tried. I don't know if this is what you wanted to read about...
  Anyway, I keep getting 'that much closer...
  I never was able to just 'throw' diodes in [as in throw of a switch] because it introduced volume drop and something else [fizziness or...] to contend with...me being the picky one and all...I just like to hit 1 switch and have everything 'just so'.