Am I the only one who thinks clean boosts are cool?

[gnomethrone]

Ever seen this? It's great.

[zeravla]

I love using my Blowing Up to smash into other pedals and remind them how much I hate them. I keep it at the beginning of my chain so the whole pedalboard is scared into submission. I never really hit my amp with it directly because I enjoy the ability to hear things.

[smallsnd/bigsnd]

clean boosts are cool. i kinda like them more when they're a little bit dirty and/or colorful but super clean is super useful too.

[frigid midget]

I see a clean boost for as a tool rather than an effect. A distortion pedal can be fun, a clean boost can be usefull

Imo there's more than enough DIRTY boosts on the market that can easily act as a clean boost if you turn down the gain. So you have more than one type of tone/function in one pedal, for roughly the same price. So I personally don't see the point in putting something like a SHO on my board

Having said that, though my W&C Mercy Phuck probably doesn't qualify as a 'clean boost', it isn't at all very gainy either, and it sounds magnificant dialed in for a little bit of hair/grit. Combine that with a cooking tube amp and you're in for a pants flapping tone boner.

[jrmy]

I hate to say it but I'm becoming a fan of just playing clean in general with some compressing, delay, fuzz, and phaser. You know. SUPER CLEAN. Like only 4 fuzz pedals on at once instead of the 10 I usually would use that just kind of mash into each other and sound like garbage. Really dialed in some cleans on my Year 4545 the other day. SUPER clean mode can be achieved with pure clean oscillations.

The true ILF definition of a clean tone.

[Chankgeez]

I still want someone to build me one o' these:

[hbombgraphics]

I like a good boost
used an MI boostnbuff for a long long time

currently just using footswitchable boost on my amp
it's good but not as cool as a good treble booster

[rustywire]

Tfw your amp sounds like the silent majority
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq19qB0OTwo[/youtube]

[friendship]

I still want someone to build me one o' these:

Meeeeeeeeeee too.

[popvulture]

I see a clean boost for as a tool rather than an effect. A distortion pedal can be fun, a clean boost can be usefull

Imo there's more than enough DIRTY boosts on the market that can easily act as a clean boost if you turn down the gain. So you have more than one type of tone/function in one pedal, for roughly the same price. So I personally don't see the point in putting something like a SHO on my board

Having said that, though my W&C Mercy Phuck probably doesn't qualify as a 'clean boost', it isn't at all very gainy either, and it sounds magnificant dialed in for a little bit of hair/grit. Combine that with a cooking tube amp and you're in for a pants flapping tone boner.

I'm with you on this... I only really ever use one at the end of my chain for the boring (but necessary) job of making everything louder at points.

If I wanna have actual fun with one, I prefer more gain/color. BTW have you seen that new W+C Suppa Phat Phuk? I'm intrigued... but having come of age in the 90s, I'm still scarred by any use of the word "Phat." Ugh.

[popvulture]

Also that Foxx. Boner city.

[soapbars]

I love clean boosts. I have an ehx 2ube which is brilliant for this, but I also have something on my board for boosting volume post dirt and boosting gain pre dirt.

[frigid midget]

I see a clean boost for as a tool rather than an effect. A distortion pedal can be fun, a clean boost can be usefull

Imo there's more than enough DIRTY boosts on the market that can easily act as a clean boost if you turn down the gain. So you have more than one type of tone/function in one pedal, for roughly the same price. So I personally don't see the point in putting something like a SHO on my board

Having said that, though my W&C Mercy Phuck probably doesn't qualify as a 'clean boost', it isn't at all very gainy either, and it sounds magnificant dialed in for a little bit of hair/grit. Combine that with a cooking tube amp and you're in for a pants flapping tone boner.

I'm with you on this... I only really ever use one at the end of my chain for the boring (but necessary) job of making everything louder at points.

If I wanna have actual fun with one, I prefer more gain/color. BTW have you seen that new W+C Suppa Phat Phuk? I'm intrigued... but having come of age in the 90s, I'm still scarred by any use of the word "Phat." Ugh.

Goddamnit there goes my Mercy Phuck's resale value
Not that I planned on flipping it in the neat future, but sooner or later something else that I like more will come along. And anything in my collection that doesn't do gnarly high gain filth is usually the the most likely to be sacrifised when GAS comes a knockin' :s: