BYOC Tri-Booster Pedal Kit

[Robert****]

Cool, DVM, thanks for the update! Those lights are UBERCOOL, did you know that?

Can't wait to see the graphic work on the final product. Are you gonna make them available for purchase?

[duhvoodooman***]

Cool, DVM, thanks for the update! Those lights are UBERCOOL, did you know that?

Can't wait to see the graphic work on the final product. Are you gonna make them available for purchase?

Yeah, I love that little 3-way LED. Haven't seen one of those on a pedal before, though I assume they must be used in some commercial effects. But the best part of this pedal, by far, is the array of cool tones it spews forth. The more I play with it, the broader the grin on my face.

Re: selling 'em, I very much doubt it. Since BYOC is no longer selling just the PCB's, I'd have to drop over $100 apiece on the full kit + shipping cost. That means that for a completed one, including labeling/finishing, I'd have to charge somewhere upward of $160 to make it worth my time. That's a pretty stiff price, when you can buy a pre-assembled BYOC TriBooster HERE for $139, and finish it yourself.

Going to try to crank out a couple of clips this afternoon....

[duhvoodooman***]

OK, here a link to a clip recorded using my Epi Elitist LP Std on the bridge p'up through my Fender Blues Junior, set up for a clean tone. Besides the Triboost, no effects used except a little plate reverb on my DigiTech DigiVerb pedal. Same pair of riffs repeated four times:

1. Clean (no boost)
2. Linear mode boost
3. Clean mode boost
4. Germanium mode boost (full freq. range setting)

The level setting on the boost pedal was 12 noon (i.e. 50%) for all three boost samples. I recorded the no-boost sample at a higher mic input setting to keep the volume comparable to the three boosted samples. I think you can hear the distortion build in pretty clearly, and it's very obvious by the germanium sample, which is my personal favorite. But they all sound good to me. Tell me what you think.

Here's the link: http://www.box.net/shared/my7h52icco

[marnold***]

Tell me what you think.

Well, I'd like to say at least one of them was bad or meh, but I'm incapable. All three sound quite nice. So does the clean, but that's not the point

[elavd]

duhvoodooman you say that the first lick is clean (no boost), but I think that on 0:08" I hear some breaking up probably from the amp.

Am I correct?

[duhvoodooman***]

duhvoodooman you say that the first lick is clean (no boost), but I think that on 0:08" I hear some breaking up probably from the amp.

Am I correct?

It's tough to get a completely clean sound from my LP when playing chords, with the hot Custom 5 pickup I have at the bridge. So, yeah--there's a touch of breakup there. Then again, when I'm using the bridge p'up on that guitar, I'm not generally going for clean! Mwah-ha-ha-ha!