Looking for a pedal to add "thickness"

[Wally Pedals]

Xotic EP Booster all day long.

[Brandon mac]

BBE boosta grande/end of thread

[SteveO]

I like the EH LPB-1 myself.Cheap,simple and effective.

[TeleBrew]

+1 on the E-H LPB-1

[blowtorch]

Have you tried an EQ pedal? A Nocturne Brain will definitely thicken up your tone.

[Fuzzblaster]

Would these clean boost pedals add volume, or more so provide more of a unity gain from my amp? I don't want things getting too loud so to speak.

[Two Steps]

Originally Posted by FretsonFire

Would these clean boost pedals add volume, or more so provide more of a unity gain from my amp? I don't want things getting too loud so to speak.

The DOD has a volume knob and tone knob. So you can set as less, unity or louder. And beef up the tone with the tone knob.

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[Fuzzblaster]

Originally Posted by Two Steps

The DOD has a volume knob and tone knob. So you can set as less, unity or louder. And beef up the tone with the tone knob.

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I don't think they make these anymore, I definitely can't find any for sale or much info on them

[Two Steps]

Originally Posted by FretsonFire

I don't think they make these anymore, I definitely can't find any for sale or much info on them

They are not made anymore. There are two on eBay and one on The Gear Pages for $35 shipped.

Just ask around how awesome the old DOD pedals are.

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[Two Steps]

This is what .11 gauge said about them...

It is a simple dual op amp booster. The bifet part is misleading - the two jFET transistors (which are much more common in expensive boutique boosters) are really only used for the buffered bypass switching - they are essentially just electronic on/off switches!

The tone control should be fairly "coloration free" at "minimum" - it mainly just blend one of two high pass filters, with ~2190Hz and ~5Hz at the two extremes.

It is "attached" to the second op amp stage, which is mainly just a "recovery stage" (won't clip much on its own).

Any EQ character or substantial clipping will come from the first op amp stage.

Incidentally, that was one of many pedals that DOD used the TL062 op amp in. It is a great op amp if you use batteries, as it has very little current draw. But if you swapped it for a TL072 or NE5532 you would get a bit more clean out of it (those chips have more headroom since they use more current). The TL072 is what is used in the Klon Centaur, so you really can't go wrong with that one.

IMO, op amp boost = potentially good clean boost candidate. And I really like the older DOD stuff, because the circuits were much simpler, like the MXR pedals that some were based off of. It wasn't until the mid-80's that the circuits started to get really bloated, mainly to compete with Boss.

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[Fuzzblaster]

I think I am basically sold on the BBE Boosta Grande, good price + does what I would need it to. I just need to know if it's going to drastically increase my total volume, or just push a bit more gain out of my amp. A little bit of volume push is good, but I don't want it to sound just like i went and turned the master up or anything like that.

[simonc]

I dont know how it will go on your wallet, but Fulltone OCD's thicken up a Vox sound really well....its what I use it for.

[gitold]

+7 on the EP boost.

[Mike Eskimo]

A hearty thumbs up for the Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster. Works either as a flat EQ boost or does two pretty convincing single coil-to-humbucker impersonations plus the jacks and power are on the top - yay!

This.

Boosta Grande is crap.

The other one everyone is recommending I've never used.

SDPB's can be had for $30-something used.

[RockerDuck]

Originally Posted by simonc

I dont know how it will go on your wallet, but Fulltone OCD's thicken up a Vox sound really well....its what I use it for.

Best pedal for Fender amps and thick tones. I broke down and bought another, my 3rd, I keep coming back to it.

[11 Gauge]

Originally Posted by FretsonFire

- slightly more saturated rhythm

- much less thin sounding lead

So by "fat," you simply mean more saturated, with less treble emphasis.

That is what the two things you said above are how I interpret them.

More saturation/less treble = compression. That doesn't mean you want a compressor, but that is the precise effect that you want.

There are many pathways to getting that kind of compression, and most of them can be quite affordable. In order to accomplish it, you might want to concentrate on selecting something that does the following:

- doesn't add enough clipping to bring out treble, which emphasizes the "thin" thing.

- doesn't try to fix "clipped treble" with a tone control. That's what an OD pedal does. IMO, if a booster has tone control stuff, it typically is creating nasty treble spikes at some settings.

- compresses the mid-band frequencies to make things sound thicker

- doesn't really "add" bass, since it can intermodulate the treble frequencies and make things sound thin/unpleasant

...Probably the CHEAPEST way to do the above, IMO, is with two pedals. It could most likely be done with just a comp and a very mild OD that simply adds *some* pleasing clipping, but not enough to require a tone control.

IMO, a booster is probably going to be too much of a gamble, since you can't control the clipping, and a simple "tail end" tone circuit to remove the treble will probably not have a dynamic nature to it.

That said, Dyna Comp clone into a LPB-1 would probably actually be a good and cheap place to start. Get a Biyang Compress X for a GREAT and cheap DC clone, and any LPB-1 will do - grab a EHX Nano, for example.

And - play with the order, despite what logic might dictate. It might not work putting the comp second, but you never know.

IMO, AVOID anything that is going to generate much treble AND distortion, and avoid things that are basically tone controls. JMO.

I think the ClinchFX EP Pre might do what you want, but it won't be cheap at all, so I'd try the DC clone/LPB thing first.

[Revv23]

For now you can just turn the amp up, guitar volume down on your thin settings, and for thick roll back your treble on you guitar slightly, volume up to full.

Then id pick up the cheapest clean boost i could find. Imo. :)

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[6Shotsdown]

Any clean boost pedal will help. But you could also try a BBE Sonic Stomp.

[ananikangel]

Has anyone suggested a voodoo labs Giggity yet?
http://www.dirtbox.net/wp-content/up...-giggity-f.jpg

Killer pedal IMO

[Dr. Pants]

maybe a SD pickup booster pedal

Yep, that or an EH LPB. I've tried almost everything
people have listed on here, and sold all of them. The
only things I've tried that have worked have been the:

EH LPB
Madbean Fat Pants
Madbean Bacon Bits
TC Sustain + Parametric
Nick Greer Royal Fromage and Butter Tone
(I mention those, but should add that his
customer support is TERRIBLE, and his prices
are way too high for simple modded clones of other
pedals, which is what they are.)

I have not had a chance to use the SD Pickup Booster yet.
But they can be had for cheap, as can the LPB. I've heard
nothing but good things about the SD PB. It's on my list of
remaining boosts I haven't tried.