Re: Bass Treble Booster 11 Crack Download
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A treble booster will boost a specific frequency band, so the spectrum will be a perfect arc. With an EQ, because you're boosting several smaller bands, you won't get a perfect arc, (depending on the Q of each band). My rangemaster clone cut too much bass for my liking, I much prefer to use a Fish and Chips.
I use my "treble booster" in full-range mode. It gives a slight boost and a little bit of fuzzy overdrive. I would never call it a fuzz or an overdrive pedal, though it does change the behavior of any other distortion or fuzz pedal after it.
The original intent of the treble booster was to brighten dark amplifiers of the time. The original (non-topboost) Voxes are pretty dark as are a lot of other old amps. So a treble booster helped you cut through by boosting your highs. Also a booster can give you a boost where you want it, not where fender thought you might, and as an active and not passive circuit you can kick it up, not be attenuating everything else to get the "boost".
This pedal is based on the 1960s British Dallas Rangemaster,which was best at the time to give a treble and gain boost to the darkBritish amps. This allowed them to get a sound more in tune withthe time, as guitars were starting to become a loud, bold, leadinstrument. This pedal is a type of BOOSTER, not reallya distortion pedal nor a clean boost- it doesmodify your sound quite a bit. It excites certain frequenciesand pushes your amp to allow it to create rich tube distortion.The pedal colors your tone, with a crunchy overdrive, boosting certain frequencies, and warming the tone withNOS germanium transistors. It does not have a lot of compressionand sustain like most OD pedals, but a more raw, open sound.
This pedal has three tone settings from the tone switch-Center is a treble boost, the same as the original Dallas Rangemaster.UP is a fuller-frequency mid range boost (MID setting). Down is a LOW range, also quite a full frequency sound.Optionally we can install a push/pull switch (built into thevolume knob) for 2 tone selections (treble and mids) but thisoption is not as good so we rarely build them.
The Beano Boost is spectacular into an amp that is alreadycranked up pretty well. It will also work well into a clean amp, but you probably need to turn the volume on the pedal up, to make the tone thickerby hitting the amp harder and making it work more. At 9:00 the Beano Boost isunity gain and may not sound very special into a clean amp. At 12:00 it startsto boost the volume and get thicker. At 3:00 it should bewaking your tubes up like a passing jet plane. So if you use a clean amp, it's not something you can just turn on and get a great sound at the same volume. However most of the time when you want more crunch you want more volume, so it may work out fine. The clips on my site are into a clean fender amp.
The John Mayall BluesBreakers album is often credited as the first major use of theLes Paul guitar with a crunchy, distorting Marshall amp, whichwould become an icon in the following decade and it still one ofthe most popular sounds with today's bands. Eric Clapton pluggedhis '60 Les Paul sunburst into a combination Marshall amp withtwo 12" speakers (now called the "bluesbreakers"model!). In addition to those two pieces of equipment, many peoplebelieve that Eric alsoplugged into a Dallas Rangemaster on a few of these tracksto get his unique tone.
Nobody can seem to prove that a Rangemaster was usedon this album, so I won'tclaim that it's positively true. But I AM certain that YOU canget his exact tone a lot easier by using our Beano Boost,and that's all that really matters. When you first try one,a lightbulb will turn on in your head- you will see howSO MANY guitarists got their awesome tones, and now you can too.
This is an original Dallas Rangemaster (with our sticker on the frontso it does not turn up for sale on EBAY by some scammers). They werenot a pedal at all, but a tabletop unit with on/off switchand volume knob. The input jack was on the front and there wasa built in cord on the back to plug into your amp. These are selling for very high prices, well over $1000, and much morewith original boxes for collectors. Here's some trivia - the originalRangemaster was NOT true bypass, with the BOOST switch off, quite a bit of high-endis rolled off, like an old wah.
Eric is not the only one who used this effect for his tone -Brian May used one or a modified version on nearly all his guitarparts in Queen, which is how he got such a sweet tone out of hisRed Special through walls of AC30s.
Billy F Gibbons seems to hold his Dallas Rangemasterin high regards, one of his Holy Grails. In 2008 he called to tell me that his new Beano Boostwas even a little better, and maybe the old box was best for a museum. We should hear his new Beano Boost on the albumthey are working on in 2008, Mr. BFG is always at the cutting edge,with the best tones, while revisiting vintage gearand making it fresh again.
Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple also used these quite a bit.Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath was another heavy user of thiseffect - his SG's through Laneys got boosted to create theoriginal HEAVY METAL rock guitar sound, a sound that still holdsup today as one of the best tones ever. In June of 2001 Mr.Iommi's guitar tech Mike Clement told me that Tony was lookingfor another Dallas Rangemaster as his was lost years ago. I did not haveany to sell, so I offered and make him a clone, our first BEANOBOOST. Last I heard hehas it in his home studio along with our Chorus and modified TS9 tube screamer.
At that time I was not interested in making a production modelas Cesar Diaz was making an excellent version called the TexasRanger. But when Cesar and his pedals left us, and due to heavy customer demand, we came up with our own unique version in early 2003. Diaz pedals are available again (you can order from their website, highly recommended)but I will keep the Beano Boost available as longas I have excellent transistors for them, as we havealready invested a lot for their production. We feel wecan make a more authentic Rangemaster than the several (maybe DOZENS now!)other clones now on the market, as we had reverse-engineered and studied ouroriginal Dallas Rangemaster in depth years ago, while most of theother builders simply copy the schematics which are availableon the DIY effects pages. We sold our original Rangemastera few years back when someone offered what we thoughtwas a lot for it, but now we are glad to have a NOS rangemaster back in our museum in 2007 and it'snot going anywhere. Original style wiring, no circuit board Ours is also the only clone thatI know of that is built with the original stylepoint-to-point wiring ratherthan on a circuit board. It takes a lot longer tobuild them this way, and much more skill from the builder.Our circuit is seen below:
The Rangemaster type pedals are not only for blues or classic rock.George Lynch used one, and said this in an interview:The European version of the first record which is out of print, has the sound. When I played on that record, all it was was an old Marshall head, an old Super 100 Marshall cabinet with a cane front, and a Rangemaster Treble Booster which Ritchie Blackmore uses. They don't make it anymore. That's how I recorded that record, and it's actually the best tone I've ever had. Terrible-sounding record- it's a horrible mix, and the vocals are too loud, but the original tone on the first record is really cool.
The American version is not as good. They remixed it and added some bits. After doing six records, that was the best tone I ever had, and I would love to go back and get that tone.
We were able to come up with a truly exceptional version of this pedal due to the tens of thousands of New Old Stock (NOS)transistors we have bought for our Fuzz Face mods and Sunfaces.Up to mid 2008, we usually used selected British (not the skinny, terrible sounding USAversion) Newmarket NKT275 germanium transistors which we used in our SUNFACE fuzz as we had a lot of them in stock.In 2014 we started to provide some Beano Boostpedals to a company that installed actual yellow Mullard OC-44 transistors and sold them on eBay (very expensive, great mojo but really don't sound different from our normal Beano Boosts). Unfortunatelyhe copied our Beano Boost design exactly, and now has someone else build them for him.No good deed goes unpunished. We heard from someone in the UK that in the 1960ssome Rangemasters came with NKT transistors.Here is a Picture of an old Rangemaster from the UK that appears to be original with anNKT (not NKT275). Here is a Picture of a real OC-44 transistor, you won't find these in any of the normal Rangemasterclones. Here is a picture of a NOS rangemaster that had a Mullard OC71 inside.
We now use several transistor types, including some coolold 1960s USA made General Electric transistors, NOS pulled out of 40-year-oldBaldwin organ tone generator boards. We test these in several ways, and most of these transistors can be used as the gain range is excellent and the noise is very low.Chuck from moe. seems to like these a lot (more than the NKT275). We ran out of the NKT275 transistors in 2011, they were a little low gain for the Beanos, a bit weak sounding, but people liked them. The ones we use now are silver or black, we also use some "W" logo silver germaniumsthat are the same specs as these, or some old RCA transistors that we are alsousing in the Sun Face. We also use the Japanese NOS 2SB171 and 175 transistors as theyhave low noise and sound awesome. Some of the Russian transistors we use in the Sun Bender MKIValso test in the Rangemaster range so we use those sometimes too. All the transistors we use now sound about the same, as they are tested to the same specs of gain, leakage,noise, and tone. But the "standard germanium" transistors listed above are the quietest, the sometimes available optionalBritish ones can be a bit noisier.
In 2019 we got a batch of "Black Bullet" transistors, made probably in the 1960s for Amperex in the USA, in Holland by Mullard/Philips. These are OC71 transistors with the US version part number on them of 2N280. These sound quite similar to our other transistors (NOS USA made germaniums) but maybe a bit less polite, a bit more of a sharp, throaty snarl. Some original Rangemasters came with OC71 transistors as seen here. This pedal is often used with Humbuckersand British amps, if that is your setup you will be thrilledby the tones of this pedal. With Fender type guitars and ampsthis pedal can also be used for some excellent tones, especiallywith the tone setting in the mid or low range boost mode.Blackmore, Brian May, and Rory Gallagher (live youtube sample, you can see it on his AC30) all used singlecoils with their Rangemasters. Brian and Rory used them with VOX AC30amps (Rory turned Brian onto that combo!).
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