boost on all the time?

[seventhson]

someone posted this on a boost for sale thread...

Since I got mine it has never been turned off in my pedalboard. Super deal on an awesome booster/eq.

legit question from me (not trying to be a dick)...is there really any reason to get a boost pedal if it's always going to be on? what am i missing?

 

[irvinz]

push your sound a lil bit more =)

 

[bongomania]

No boost is 100% transparent. Even the Creation Labs one, maybe it's something like 99.5% transparent (just to make the point), but most boosts add a bit of color. Often that color is hard to put into words, it is not necessarily audible as distortion or whatever, but rather as an undefinable "quality" where your bass just "sounds better" (if you like that sound).

Or sometimes, as with my passive bass, the output is low relative to the level of my other basses, and I choose to boost the one low-level one all the time rather than attenuate the two high-level ones all the time.

 

[seventhson]

push your sound a lil bit more =)

well i get that, but if it's on all the time, then why not just turn the volume up a little more on the amp? but bongomania answered my question. thanks!

 

[Nyarlathotep]

I use my LPB-1 (and previously, the boost section on my Hematoma) as a 2nd volume level. I usually leave it off for slow parts/intros, then bust it in for some extra MOJO.

Like Bongo says: boosts are never 100% clean. Hell, according to the waveform pics in audacity it (the LPB-1) acts more like and expander (iirc) apparently bringing up the low volume parts....

 

[irvinz]

well i get that, but if it's on all the time, then why not just turn the volume up a little more on the amp? but bongomania answered my question. thanks!

other than what bongo said. different effects (mainly fuzzes od and distortions) react differently to the amount of volume going in.

 

[4stringmangler]

i run my catalinbread spp alltime, it helps get a nice overdrive sound at lower volumes for me. right now i'm just jamming in the basement becasue my band broke up.

 

[fireincairo]

Through a solid state amp, I would never shut my Xotic RC Boost off. It's a beautiful tone shaper and gives a ton of shine and character to any tone. Through my tube amp, it's a different story. The hotter signal can drive the preamp a bit too much and change the tones.

 

[KsToaDangr]

just to throw another thought in here...

the pedal in question is a boost/EQ

better tone from the EQ section of the pedal than from the guy's amp?