Is there any love for LPB-1?

It's AWESOME, nothing comes close except spaceman stuff. @nshuman

 

That's serious bank right there... @Ziltoid do you travel to gigs with a security detail?

 

That's not my board. I think it might have been @nshuman's board at some point.

Also the LPB-1 in there was a joke.

 

I don't but @nshuman had one for some time so I'm repeatedly tagging him to summon him.

 

It was my board until I realized that I could basically buy a small car if I sold everything on there. RIP my Spaceman collection.

 

I don't really use boosts, but I have had an lpb1 and it was great at doing what it claims to do. you can definitely spend more, but I don't think you would need to

 

I'll be honest. I had one and I found that there much better more transparent boosts. But, really, for the price, it's really not that bad. It's cool for pushing tubes or other pedals. I prefer a nice Mosfet 100% clean boost, but there is nothing wrong with the EHX pedal.

 

I did not REALLY have to but, you know ... I went through some sort of existential board crisis. You wake up one day and you have 125 pedals on your office floor and are wondering how you ended up in that place.

 

Yeah, if you are using it to boost dirt, it's weird non-transparence sort of goes away. I had originally bought it to boost my Ashdown LB-30 to sort of make up for it's lack of gain knob.

If you ever decide that you want something more transparent, the discontinued (I mean, the whole company is gone) HBE Bajo MOS is completely transparent. You can also build one. It's basically the Jack Orman Mosfet boost circuit.

Those kinds of boosts go great before an OD, DIst, some fuzzes, tubes, etc.

On guitar, where it works better, you can use it as a line driver pedal to get a better overall tone integrity on long chains. A Bajo MOS could do that on bass. I mean, look, lots of very expensive boosts do better, but at a crazy higher price point.

 

I've been using mine for years. Love it to death. My wren and cuff Phat phuk b has been nudging it off the board lately though

 

I use one to boost the signal in front of an envelope filter such as the Emma Discumbobulator or MXR M82, when playing through a low output passive bass (the LPB-1 opens up the filter a treat), so yes a very useful little pedal.

 

^ Same as above. I use one to boost my green russian small stone. Does the trick.

 

I have one of the original ones from the early 70s, before the era of the stomp box. It would have been plugged directly into an amp or guitar and just a volume knob. Its on a board of mine, immediately behind the tuner and compressor as an always on thing, boosting everything. It's really helped to open up a lot of effects and make them more dynamic. It's a great "pedal" and its tiny! Like, a quarter of the size of the modern LPB1.

 

I got this boost for 130$~, handmade locally. Its the only boost I have owned, has a huge volume range and I almost never have to turn it past 50%.

There isn't as big a difference between modern and vintage as I had hoped but there is a subtle one. Modern is more compressed and tight and vintage is warm.