suggest me a good clean boost pedal you played with which would not much affect the tone.

I'm looking to BBE Boosta Grande and MXR MC401 Boost Pedal

I use a Z.Vex "Super Duper", which is two clean boosts in one pedal. It came from a pedal he made before that one (and still makes) called the Super Hard-On. I never play without it at the end of my pedal chain (usually just a tuner and one or two dirt pedals in front of it), for guitar and baritone. I also doubt I will ever play bass without it again. Incredible for bass.

If you want a single clean boost, the Super Hard-On is excellent. The Super Duper can be used with both boosts off, the first on and the second off, the second on and the first off, or both on. They're cascaded into each other, so with them both on, you can seriously overdrive whatever amp you're plugged into if you want. I don't use it like that though. Normally, the first boost is on, set for a really slight boost, just enough to add a little sparkle and fullness to the sound. Then, for more of a boosting type boost, I hit both buttons at once (totally easy because of the pedal design) and it turns off the first one and turns on the second one, which I have set to push the amp a little harder.

Love the Z.Vex... the Super Duper cost as much as a couple amps I've bought, but it's totally worth it. I'd buy another in a heartbeat if I lost mine.

the superduper is too much for me, i need to crank the princeton a bit more not make it bleed distortion everywhere.

I'm looking to the super hard on, it seems very well manufactured and i can find it here in italy too.

Have you tried other booster?

the mxr boost is pretty fantastic, and cheap.

also, fulltone makes brilliant pedals. super clean boost, right here:

http://www.fulltone.com/stpframe.html


you can use their over drive to boost as well:

http://www.fulltone.com/FD2.asp



i've tried the super hard on, and the mucho boosto - fulltones definitely the best of the bunch, for sho.




-joshua...

ok, but the fulltone full-drive2 has too many controls which suggest me the tone will not be the same.
However it would be interesting to try it out.

I have a simple guitar setup: a crappy modified tele copy (soon an Electrical Guitar Company) into a Fender Princeton silverface into a 2x12'' marshall cab. Sometimes a Fender tube reverb and a fuzz face.

Xotic RC Booster. I use it with an EGC500 in front of either a YBA-1 or a Hiwatt DR103

Cheaper than the Z.Vex stuff, as good as an overpriced Klon Centaur for what it does. Yes, I a/b'ed them all recently.

Very transparent, Gain, Volume, Bass and Treble controls, that's it.

For me it provides that little push over the edge I need sometimes without turning my sound into mush.

I endorse.

i trust you but eq is a surplus i don't need. Here in italy the Xotic RC is priced as a ZVex.

Super budget compared to all the options you're looking at here, but the marshall bluesdriver pedals have a good boost option on them, I had one and used it for a long time 'til I switched to wanting more of "distorion" (i have a supa tonebender now which is an entirely different kettle of fish). They are really cheap and have a sort of useable tubescreamer copy function too (although you have to switch between the two modes by hand not with a footswitch). I currently have a newer tubescreamer, and handmade booster both of which have crap switches and are a bit useless. I am very much of the mind to get a new bluesbreaker for boost purposes.

I recommend the Z.Vex SHO as well. This pedal, she is not a distortion pedal.

+1 for the super hardon