Boost for Tonemender

[elpucho]

Hi,

I just finished building the Tonemender from ROG, it's sounding really nice and definitely worth looking at if you need a very versatile tonestack.

What I want to do with it is to box it alongside one of the one knob boosters (LPB, Mini Boost etc) and have one stomp switch to switch the Tonemender on, and then a second stomp to switch on a booster and hopefully get a little bit of overdrive out of it, and make it into an even more versatile pedal.

I was wondering if anyone had tried this, or had any advice/views?  What booster would be best suited, and would it be before, or after the tonemender?

Thanks

[Ripthorn]

If you are wanting to get overdrive out of the tonemender, the boost needs to come before if it works at all.  There are several good boosters, but the next one on my list is the sparkleboost.  My only question is whether the tonemender will have any kind of pleasing distortion.  Why not build a dedicated overdrive and/or distortion?

[kurtlives]

The Tonemender has a lot of volume stock...why not add a switch to select between two volume pots...One for stock sounds and one for boost.

[petemoore]

What I want to do with it is to box it alongside one of the one knob boosters (LPB, Mini Boost etc) and have one stomp switch to switch the Tonemender on, and then a second stomp to switch on a booster and hopefully get a little bit of overdrive out of it, and make it into an even more versatile pedal.

I was wondering if anyone had tried this, or had any advice/views?  What booster would be best suited, and would it be before, or after the tonemender?
   Explore:
  9Vdc supply for all
  TM>Boost
  Here, the voicing-versatility is put before the booster.
  Does the booster have sufficient headroom ?,,or is the distortion generated at 9v the desired or chosen effect ? [That's how I like to use a Minibooster, hit the input a little harder than 'guitar V'.
  Boost>TM
  Here a question could be does the TM have sufficient headroom @9v to 'do' [the chosen thing...].
  ...My view is that you probably don't want much distortion generated by the TM.
   Another way to work with boost>BOOST scenarios and the headroom/distortion relationship is to 'move the headroom up or down' [change the supply voltage], a great circuit for that is the Minibooster, read more about the self-biasing Mu-Amp at GEO, AMZ.

 
 
 

[dschwartz]

The Tonemender has a lot of volume stock...why not add a switch to select between two volume pots...One for stock sounds and one for boost.

this is definetly the best solution. i do that on most of my pedals when they have decent amount of output volume.