Wich Booster?

[carrejans]

A friend of mine asked to make a Booster. He plays in a metal-band; and wants to use a simple booster for his solo's.
There are so much boosters out there. Which one do you recommend me?
Thank you.

[kurtlives]

I would say a Rangemaster, I just love them.

The Fat Booster off of GGG is also pretty cool.

[John Lyons]

If you let us know the guys set up it will be easier to suggest a booster.
Boosters are highly dependent on which amp and pedals you use, and in which order they are used in.

John

[nooneknows]

I agree with John.
Anyway I think the AMZ MiniBooster still rules, it has a wonderful dynamic and a great tube like vibe. I still prefer this to the Mos booster (the mosfet one is in my pedal board now but I think I'll switch back to the minibooster)

[carrejans]

If you let us know the guys set up it will be easier to suggest a booster.
Boosters are highly dependent on which amp and pedals you use, and in which order they are used in.

John

I don't remember wich amp; so I will ask him. He doesn't use an other pedals I think.

[Hanglow]

I made a stratoblaster - easy and works a treat.

Although this thread has now got me wanting to make more boosters

[Plinky]

Built a couple of the Mini boosters modded with a input gain and tone control  - great clean boost, not so good on a dirty amp channel. Never tried it with a distortion pedal or solid state amp.

[carrejans]

If you let us know the guys set up it will be easier to suggest a booster.
Boosters are highly dependent on which amp and pedals you use, and in which order they are used in.

John

I don't remember wich amp; so I will ask him. He doesn't use an other pedals I think.

I asked. He uses a Peavey 5150 head, and Orange cabinet. He doesn't use any pedals.

[d95err]

What does he want to use the booster for? To increase gain/distortion on solos, or to increase volume? A booster can be useful for going from slight breakup to crunch, or from crunch to very high gain. If he's already playing with a metal sound, adding a booster infront of the amp will only add noise and feedback. The volume increase will be insignificant if the sound is fairly distorted to begin with.

If the intention is to increase volume, you need to put something in the FX loop of the amp.

[nooneknows]

Even more persuaded that a AMZ Minibooster with J201 is the best choice: mine, with a humbucker equipped guitar, has a slight distorsion too and drives the input of my Marshall with a wonderful color and dynamic.
my 2 cents.

[carrejans]

I just made a layout design for the AMZ Mosfet Booster (now I see that you mean the j201 booster iso this one  )

Is this a good booster?


Any mistakes in my layout?

[carrejans]

What does he want to use the booster for? To increase gain/distortion on solos, or to increase volume? A booster can be useful for going from slight breakup to crunch, or from crunch to very high gain. If he's already playing with a metal sound, adding a booster infront of the amp will only add noise and feedback. The volume increase will be insignificant if the sound is fairly distorted to begin with.

If the intention is to increase volume, you need to put something in the FX loop of the amp.

The booster should only increase the volume. Is the AMZ Mosfet Booster a good choice? Should he place it in his FX loop or just in front of his amp?

Thanks...

[MikeH]

AMZ mosfet is a good boost for just boosting volume.  It adds a little grit when you crank it way up, but they all will do that.  For just a transparent boost The AMZ Mosfet and the SHO are my favs.  The LPB isn't bad in that department, but I think it increases the bass a little.

[nooneknows]

Mosfet booster is a bit too shrill for me (I plays singl coil guitars), I prefer a darker boost.
But all depends on the entire signal chain, guitar, amp, fx, of course.

[amz-fx]

Mosfet booster is a bit too shrill for me (I plays singl coil guitars), I prefer a darker boost.
But all depends on the entire signal chain, guitar, amp, fx, of course.

Change R3 to 1M or even 470k and see if it works better with your setup.

regards, Jack

[d95err]

The booster should only increase the volume. Is the AMZ Mosfet Booster a good choice? Should he place it in his FX loop or just in front of his amp?

As I said before, adding a booster infront of an amp that already has loads of distortion will only add noise. The booster needs to be in the FX loop.

This means you really don't need a booster. A simple passive volume control (pot-in-a-box) works just as well (i.e. switch it in to lower volume and switch it out for full solo volume). You may want to consider adding some kind of remote switching, otherwise you'll need to draw long cables from the fx loop to the front of the stage and then back again.

[nooneknows]

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Change R3 to 1M or even 470k and see if it works better with your setup.

Thank you Jack, I'll try this mod, although in my pedalboard your wonderful miniBooster I think is still hard to substitute: it just has something 'more'
ciao,
Marcello

[carrejans]

Mosfet booster is a bit too shrill for me (I plays singl coil guitars), I prefer a darker boost.
But all depends on the entire signal chain, guitar, amp, fx, of course.

Change R3 to 1M or even 470k and see if it works better with your setup.

regards, Jack

Thank you for your advice; and your effect of course. 

[kurtlives]

Sorry to go off topic...

What booster do you think will fatten your tone up the most?

What do people think about GGG Fat Booster?

[d95err]

What booster do you think will fatten your tone up the most?

That depends on what your definition of "fat" tone is...