Booster alternatives

[jorgenkjellgren]

I hav ethis old EHX LPB-2 that I use to overdrive my ´63 RI Fender Vibroverb. SOunds really warm and natural. Though when I use it to drive my Peavey Classic 30 it sounds hard and a bit shrill.

Could it be that I made it TB a while ago?
Can anyone recomend a booster that works well with the Classic 30? One that I can build myself that is.

Thanks, Jörgen

[erick4x4]

I hav ethis old EHX LPB-2 that I use to overdrive my ´63 RI Fender Vibroverb. SOunds really warm and natural. Though when I use it to drive my Peavey Classic 30 it sounds hard and a bit shrill.

Could it be that I made it TB a while ago?
Can anyone recomend a booster that works well with the Classic 30? One that I can build myself that is.

Thanks, Jörgen

If I understand you right, unless you made some strange mistake, making it TB (true bypass?) should make no difference when the pedal is on.
I find classic 30's have quite a strong leaning to highs anyway, so you would probably just want a fatter boost.

You should check out Jack Orman's miniboost.  He can sell you the PCB board, its super easy to make, and pretty easy to play with it for different sounds. Simply by changing transistors you can get cleaner or dirtier boosts, and changing a few caps, can give you more bass, less bass, more treble, less treble, etc. He has a great newsletter you can buy explaining it.  That newsletter and pedal pretty much starting me building pedals.

It's my vote anyway.

His site is http://www.muzique.com

[jorgenkjellgren]

Thanks a lot amigo!
I´ll check it out.

What about Rangemasters and the like?
I mean, if they are "fullrange" and not trebleboosters.

[erick4x4]

What about Rangemasters and the like?
I mean, if they are "fullrange" and not trebleboosters.

No they are really designed to be treble boosters.  You can change the input cap to make it boost more fullrange, but I find at some point they get muddy when you try to get too much "full range" out of them. My germanium rangemaster always got really muddy as I tried to get it "fullrange". The brian may boost (I got the board from http://www.tonepad.com stayed much cleaner when I got it too fullrange, but still really can't compare to the mini-boost for me.  The rangemaster does a great job of treble boosting, so I put them back close to stock, and let them do there thing.

I actually just finished a pedal with a rangemaster/may queen rangemaster/miniboost.  And love the differences, but the rangemasters are definately best bright (at least to me).

[jorgenkjellgren]

I ordered parts for a minibooster!
Thanks for the tip!
I´m getting ahead of my self here but do you have any good ideas for mods?

Thanks, Jörgen

[Phorhas]

Try the part values of the first gain stage found in the BSIAB2.

It works great with a Classic30.

Look at up at GGG

[jorgenkjellgren]

Thanks! I´ll look into it.

Jörgen

[erick4x4]

I ordered parts for a minibooster!
Thanks for the tip!
I´m getting ahead of my self here but do you have any good ideas for mods?

Thanks, Jörgen

Just to support Jack, he sells for $12 an article he wrote about his minibooster, with more mods, than you'll know what to do with.

I would HIGHLY recommend it. But otherwise, I find playing with C6 from out, to small and large caps, is really helpfull to find "your sound" with it. And socket the transistors and try lots of different ones. J201's, 2n5457, mpf 102, etc.

Buy the article, it'll really help.

[jorgenkjellgren]

Yeah, I saw that article. Think I´ll buy it.
The mini booster seems like a good thing to mess with.

Thanks again, Jörgen