TREBLE BOOSTERS- the most UNDERRATED GUITAR EFFECT! Tone Secrets #8
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- From Rory Gallagher to Brian May, from Tony Iommi to Judas Priest... the treble booster has made it's mark and left a sonic impact on so much great blues, rock and roll, and heavy metal! Hear it in action in this video on some classic riffs... for more info on the Dallas Rangemaster booster: en.wikipedia.o...
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The only guy to truly nail Brian May's tone on the entire internet.
Nice.
What about Brian May? 😉
AntiChangeling smart ass haha
Look at the brian may tribute channel, the guy is amazing.
Will Barbero does a good job.
Not the only one, there are some good youtubers outthere
The riff from Into the Void always gets my head banging, I have no choice in the matter.
Free will does not enter the equation. It's Pavlovian.
Every time I see Toni Iommi, I think of Randy from South Park.
@@fullclipaudio can i ask why lol
@@Katrina-jg4gf They look exactly the same.
@@fullclipaudio kinda yeah lol and randy plays too
i think left handed as well lol
Treble boosters are cool but I need a talent booster. Where can I get one of those?
It's inside you. You need to find it by practice.
Here ya go. Diamond makes them.
diamondcustomshop.com/products/talent-booster
Rich Mahogany omfg that’s hilarious
Brian Wampler sells one too
Try TC they have different Talent Prints you can download and test out :-)
Great video Pete, as usual ! I’m probably wrong, but I suspect that the main reason why the treble booster isn’t as popular as it should be (these days) is simply because the name “treble booster” doesn’t do it justice. A lot of amps are already quite bright in tone (Marshall and Fender for example) and users of those amps will tend to turn down the treble control down on the amp. So why therefore would they use a “treble booster”. However, as you know only too well the treble booster isn’t simply acting like an additional treble control for your amp, it is doing a lot more to the relationship between the guitar and the amp than simply adding more treble. It is actually “over driving” the tubes in a very specific way, emphasizing both the mid and hi harmonic frequencies, and helping to produce a very smooth, clear and saturated overdrive tone. I think if they renamed it they’d sell like hot cakes (Perception is everything!)
I agree!
@@PeteThorn I honestly never hearded of that treble booster ! Great advice and bonus. I almost NEVER play on my bridge pickup, because i don't like too much treble. Mostly i ony ue my neck or neck and middle pickup and play Hendrix, Fruciante, SRV and so on. Thanks.
Seems to me that Rory and Brian used the treble booster in the 60s & 70s to achieve what SRV (et al) used a Tubescreamer for in the 80s.
Richard Hanly - I think you nailed it. I’ve certainly heard of a “Range Master” but never the term “treble booster”.
If I'm not mistaken, Hendrix used also a treble booster.
I’m a huge Sabbath fan. I’ve been chasing a modern day Iommi tone since I very first started playing, and I gotta say, at the very end what you said “so what’s that good for? Well, it’s good for this!” Queue Into the Void. Pure nostalgia, and then of course the old school Iommi photos. Put a big smile on my face. Glad you paid homage to The Godfather of metal. Thanks for the video. I enjoy your approach and style. Cheers Pete.
Yep. People tend to test them out at bedroom level and get the wrong impression. They are great when the amp is cranked but best with low gain older amps.
This video was good for explaining their purpose. A coloured booster with a high pass filter basically. A tube screamer has a similar function. They all tighten up the bass frequencies by getting rif of some of it. Does not work well on a modern amp that gets a similar sound already using preamp gain. I have found it best on those older non master volume Marshalls that usually need the bass kept really low or they sound farty.
Totally agree, best at volume and the amp cooking !
Yeah that’s the key IMHO. This demo is way to high gain to show what a treble booster can do. You also need a dark amp (or set it darker) otherwise it’s just high end trash
Interesting stuff, loved the segment when Brian May was talking about Rory Gallagher. Also some outstanding playing by Pete :D
Too bad he didn't play anything from Rory Gallagher. Anyway, good vid 👍
Amazing video Pete! Great playing as always and really informative. Also shout out to the Range Van Lord from Jext Telez
the Greta Van Fleet signature? Id love to get my hands on one of these. I own a similar booster, i built it on my on out of a diy kit ( musikding.de the Range) but it cuts too much bass for me
Into The Void = the heaviest riff around revealed! Very good informative video and Brian May talking about Rory influencing him in gear and tone is a bonus!
Seriously, Van Halen said, it was the heaviest riff ever made!! I agree!!
Yah, look at this guy, truly nails that classic old queen riff like noone else ive ever heard.
I've built a couple Rangemasters. I used to just leave it on all the time. Turn up the guitar to ooze harmonics and sustain. Turn it down for beautiful cleans. One of my favorite pedals.
I think ppl don't get that you need to have the amp running hot. A lot of people are looking for low volume high gain sounds due to their domestic playing situations
Exactly my dilemma.
An amp always sounds better cranked up a little (well they are designed for that volume); it blooms and breaths. Cracked me up when Pete said an AC30 @ 10 is not that loud (for him) 🤘. Tell that to my eardrums 😂. On a serious matter....how many guitarist suffer from Tinnitus? I found that as I play, I increase the volume a little (maybe the amp impedance increases/output drops as it gets hot). Need to watch out for that, and onset of Tinnitus.
That's why some people put their amp into some sort of isolation box and mic it there instead
@@KaninTuzi Useful idea, just searched on here, lots of DIY isolation boxes; even one by Pete. Maybe a future project when I get organized 😜.
And now I'm on Reverb looking at treble boosters.
Try Electro Harmonix screaming bird
awwwyeaboyeeee same here!
@@symptomoftheuniverse1261 you must have one of those for sale
The Hotone XTOMP Mini has a bitching patch, I love it more than a Beano Boost believe it or not! Running a 335 through it and it’s bomber for $55! Plenty of other options if it’s not for you.
You can make one for about 5 dollars
Not only did I (long overduly) delve into the treblebooster world, I actually have started making them myself together with fuzzface clones, both separately and as a two-fer pedal. That's all I personally need together with a Vox these days.
I remember hearing CCR talking about why is there a Bass knob on a guitar amp :D. the treble boost is a great way to really Kick a dirty amp in the face without flabbing out.
No shit.... I've been contemplating turning all mine into a bass cut rather than the standard treble cut.
It's there so you can turn it down! :))
Just found out from a video that Robin Trower keeps his bass and treble at zero on his Marshall with the mid at max.
I don't remember which model it was but it sounded incredible!
Too many guitarists use too much bass. It sounds good playing by yourself, but muddies up a band situation.
0:59 *Iron Man* by Black Sabbath
3:59 *Tie Your Mother Down* by Queen
7:30 *We Will Rock You* _[Solo]_ by Queen
8:08 *Victim of Changes* by Judas Priest
12:22 *Into the Void* by Black Sabbath
Thank you
@ 13:49 - Bohemian Rhapsody ;-)
@@greglawrencemusic Nice catch!
LOVED your "Into the Void" guitar faces, as we all share your "How can anyone be as cool as Iommi?" thoughts. Awesome.
Recently got my first treble booster. It's so good pushing my Carvin X100b.
Love your work Pete, awesome video as always
Great demo! Made me go back to a Judas tune. Haven't played it in a while. I guess I was 'Victim of Changes.' ;)
Stay awesome!
Amazing, this even works with modelling amps.. even old ones like Guitar Rig 5, AC30 cranked.. wooly as you say, add the built in Treble boost (based on the range master) and it's instantly Brian May, great stuff Pete
oh yeah it works with Axe FX, etc
Pete,I forgot to thank you for turning me on to these a few years ago when you did a comparison of different overdrive types (I picked up a OD-1 from that video too!)
I tried to get the 65 Amps model you have,but they ceased production...ended up with a Beano Boost and loved it UNTIL it went berserk at a hot outdoor show (I quickly learned how temperature sensitive germanium transistors are)...sold it and decided my next ones needed 2 things: silicone transistors and tone shaping capabilities (straight rangemaster type is just a hair too bright and thin for my setups)
I ended up keeping a Catalinbread Naga Viper and an NRG Poker...they have different characteristics,but they sound fantastic,are versitle,and feel great under the fingers...they have become irreplaceable in my setups and I don't miss germanium at all...also,loved the Daredevil Silver Solo..very reasonably priced,but just too close to the Naga Viper to justify keeping it around...the only one I didn't care for was the current Laney/Black Country Custom Tony Iommi version...was wanting to love it but it just seemed to react more like a standard overdrive than a true treble booster and I could never dial the EQ to my liking...apologies for the book report,but hopefully, someone can use this info
Pete, I just had the treble booster revelation. Seriously. I have an Area 51 Alienist given to me by Dan and I just finally figured it out. It took me over a year. It is based off of the Dallas Rangemaster and Hornby Skewes treble boosters. I use it on my vintage Tweed Bassman amps and it has transformed my tone to a whole new level. I just Googled the Rangemaster and Hornby and found this video. I was glad to see you felt the same way. It's it the only effect I use for my base tone now.
Great video! It almost feels like watching a nice documentary about the Treble Booster! You've shown where it came from, you've shown how to use it and you've shown who famous used it and how. Useful and full of interesting facts! ...and lots of nice riffs from you!
All I can say is, IT'S ABOUT TIME someone made a video featuring the treble booster! Thank you very sincerely for bringing to light the original secret to Brian May, and Tony Iommi's tone. I had grown weary of the countless tube screamer videos that have polluted UA-cam in the last decade. This was enjoyable, and took me back to my years as a touring tech in the early eighties. Rock on!
man u nailed the brian may sound man. not an easy thing to do!
Pete, your incredible musicianship makes these videos really shine.
The Auto Wah is also highly under rated as a tone shaper. If you set it to sweep up, set the highest frequency high, set it to the right sensitivity - what happens is that the frequency SHOOTS UP TO THE TOP, then it slowly drops.
When you use it this way no one can tell that you’re using an auto wah because all people hear is the highest frequency.
The only time anyone will hear it slide down into the lower frequencies is if you let a note sustain. But if you have some echo going on the lower notes make your guitar sound wider, and the sound covers the whole room. A Rolland Tape Echo works best for this because each successive echo loses fidelity.
If you have a Hall Reverb going on, it makes your sound even BIGGER!
Using an auto wah in this unconventional manner accomplishes three purposes: 1) It acts like a treble booster; 2) When sustained the low notes make your guitar sound bigger; 3) Because people can not actually tell that you’re using an auto wah, it keeps people wondering how you get your tone.
Myself, I have three EQs going, in addition to the tone nobs on my amp. One of the EQs is a parametric, and one is a regular wah wah, that acts as a parametric when I’m not using it to make “wah wah” sounds. However, my tone also sounds clean/dirty, which means that if I push it a little I get an insane metal tone; but unlike most rock and metal tones, every note stands out individually - similar to Brian May and Ronni Le’Tekro. The placement of each EQ is important as well.
When it comes to EQs, amps and effect peddles also need to be considered. One of my overdrives, that I use in series with an OD1, is the BOSS SD-1. The tone knob hits a particularly sweet frequency that is important in my tone. Also the Vox AC30s have a tone knob that is a particular set frequency that can be added into the mix, but the frequency itself can not be changed. Without that frequency the Vox AC30 would be an AC15, and it is also an important part of the 60s and 70s British rock tone.
Delay peddles are also highly underrated as a tool for tone shaping where it is set to alter the tone, but where the delay can not be heard. There is at least [one] thing I can do with a modified delay that few people on earth are aware of. Additionally, dynamic delays are also very under rated, and remain a trick that only seasoned musicians use.
IamNemoN01 can an auto wah give you that cry baby full on sound. I’d love to have a pedal that does just that, cause that’s the only reason I have my crybaby in my chain.
Jj Turnstile You can leave the wah peddle at whatever frequency you wish. If you want to have even more control get the Cry Baby Q-Wah. It’s essentially a sweepable parametric EQ - you can choose the frequency range, and width, as well as the wet/dry mix. Alternatively, Ibanez made the same thing, but it’s a lot harder to find.
IamNemoN01 yeah I have the Q, but was wanting something smaller, for I only use it to step on fully to get trebly
Jj Turnstile If that’s all you need, then the Treble Booster may be what you need.
Any parametric equalizer can accomplish the same thing (though the wiring and components differ from unit to unit and color the sound differently), but as far as I know there isn’t a foot peddle Para-EQ, other than the Crybaby Q. The QWah is the only SINGLE frequency parametric I’m aware of where width, frequency, and wet/dry mix can be controlled (all other parametric EQ units control more than one frequency). If you don’t at least have control over width and center frequency, it’s not really a parametric.
e.g. The high tone knob on the Vox AC30 Top Boost only controls one frequency, and it’s an important frequency for fidelity. But you can only control the mix, so it’s technically just a tone knob.
Jj Turnstile Another tip that only the pros and studio musicians use is to attenuate. Give a look into attenuation. It cleans up your sound and permits you to get the sound of a full volume amp at low levels, and without getting electronics buzz. That together with gain staging, and running more than one method of noise dampening/clipping, and you can get an amazingly clean sounding overdrive - at the levels of people like Brian May, Ynwie Malmsteen, Ronni Le Tekrø, and others who have a very polished professional sound.
When it comes down to it, it’s not possible to get a pro sound without a decent amount of equipment. Even people like Le Tekrø who boast about getting his sound with only his guitar and a few foot peddles - he’s not telling the truth. You can clearly see his effects rack behind him in the 80s. And sometime in the 90s he started hiding the rack. But you simply can not get the same full rack sound with peddles as you got with a rack. His backline tech (Hoba) hides Ronny’s rack in with his sound reinforcement equipment while touring.
Ronni runs a few cords out from his amp to the backline, and those cords blend in with all the other cords. And he tells everyone he gets his sound with the peddles, while hiding the real tricks. He also guts his amps and doesn’t tell people the truth about what amps he’s using (they’re not JCM800s), and he hides a few more peddles under his peddle board. He mikes his amp from inside, but only shows you the mics on the outside, despite the fact that the mic inside is more important. You used to be able to see a DD3 on top of his amp, and he hides that today; and you used to be able to see his SD1 right on his peddleboard, and he hides that today - but he still uses the same equipment.
The point is that if you want a pro sound, you have to learn pro secrets and tricks, and get a few extra pieces of equipment. In some cases you have to think outside of the box and try using equipment in very unorthodox ways. Sometimes simply plugging a plug in wrong leads a musician to discover a trick that wasn’t intended in the design of the equipment, and that becomes part of that musician’s signature sound.
Great video! Being a Brian May fan I have long wanted a treble booster. Thanks for this video.
Brian May tone explained ... thats why lot of youtubers have hard time with his tone ... Working with volume pot and trebble booster ... great ...
Been saying this for years to the people that buy the same gear as their idols, and it doesn't sound that good. Always needed a bump up in the heat/sizzle/treble/eq area. It just pushes everything into the next level. Excellent job Pete!
Pete you’re a gentleman. Thanks for taking the time to do these demos!
Man, you just changed my life! I really am sick of the dead sounding humbucker sound, I knew May used a treble booster but now I have to build one with NOS parts. I have a '71 Super Bass head - how f'ing loud did you play it to get that distortion out of it?!? LOLz
DAYUUM! Such a GREAT tone!
Tone to the T! Awesome Pete!!!
GREAT video! Great tones! Great playing! Thank you!
You're right though, Pete. People don't seem to know much about these underrated effects nowadays, but I really thinks it's at least got to be getting better (in no small part to great videos like this one!). I started playing guitar waaay back in the '60s, and treble boosters were, even then, pretty much unknown. IIRC, I first began actually hearing of them in the '70s, what with the advent of early guitar magazines like Guitar Player. Really, back in the day, we'd maybe own a fuzz and later on, an early wah.
(Believe it, young players: Back then, whatever you learned was pretty much going by word of mouth-this was pre-GP mag and pre-internet/UA-cam. Primitive times indeed, lol!).
One day ("way back" in the late '90s) I eventually decided to ASK about treble boosters at a great local store, and the VERY knowledgeable owner kind of looked at me and... admitted he really had no experience or even any knowledge of them himself. Ha. IIRC, we simply shrugged together and agreed that, yes, they most likely boosted treble. Duh!
Anyway, I eventually got myself a great Homebrew Electronics Germanium 44 Treble Booster, and discovered that, yes, it sure did a LOT more than simply boost treble. WOW!
Thanks for the GREAT demo, Pete (as usual) and especially for including so much interesting history. I'm now inspired to get my Germanium44 out tonight and put in some good time making music. Thanks again!
That dyna ranger sounded fantastic for sabbath.... damn. Great job Pete.!
Thanks Pete. Very informative and got the surprise of Rory G being mentioned.
Wooow what a massive sound Pete!!
God that was kickass - I always thought AC30s sounded horrible. Now I know why... 😎
The AC30 and the AC50 are best sounding amps ever made.Nothing comes close.End of story.
"It's perfect for this..." Love it! Brilliant video, Pete. Thank you.
Fantasic vid. My favorite tone of all time and is the tone on Judas Priest's "Unleashed in the East". Researching how to get that tone sent me down the treble booster path and eventually to this video. Love Tony's tone too. Priest recorded that album in early 78. The JCM 800 was out by then, but I dont know if they were using it yet.
Another myth busted! I always wondered, listening to vinyl as a young player back in 1979, 1980 how that sound came together. Now I know. Spot on!
I had to pause your video and go listen to Queen play "Tie Your Mother Down"! Great tune I haven't listened to in a long time and then "Into the Void"? Man, your tones kicked ass in headphones!
I just got a Black Country Customs TI-Boost that I think you more recently did a video on. It should really wake up my AC30 C2X!
Thanks for another great demo and tone lesson!!!!!!
There's something different about watching you, relative to 90%+ of folks on UA-cam.
What is it?
You actually look like you're enjoying what you're doing.
Rock on.
Hi Pete, great video and great explanation of the unit. Regarding Rory, I reckon he’s one of the greatest of all time and he lived in Cork, Ireland in his younger years and bought that famous Strat in Crowley’s music store which is now sadly gone and I’ve fond memories hanging round there playing guitars I couldn’t afford as a youngster! Brian May is a legend and I saw Queen in 1986 on the Magic Tour, my favorite band of all time. I bought the Boss BC-2 after watching your video. Great pedal and Brian May in a box, and Bryan Adams too who’s guitarist Keith Scott is criminally underrated! Keep the superb videos coming! It’s an education! Regards, A.
Great video Pete (not that they're not usually), really interesting stuff! Good work... Again 😁
Like hanging at a buddies place. Thanks for being genuine. You rock man.
thanks!
Jimmy Page had Roger Mayer build him a treble booster and fuzzbox before he joined The Yardbirds. I think it eventually became mass-marketed as The Tone Bender.
Roger Mayer most likely built a modified Maestro Fuzz Tone for Page, the Tone Bender didn't come from him.
Still, he is a vastly underrated important man in guitar history: he built fuzzes for Page in his early days and for Hendrix all over his carreer, he also was Hendrix's guitar/pedals tech, he went on tour with him to help with the fuzz boxes and tuning up the guitars backstage with just a pitchfork (try to imagine tuning a unplugged electrical guitar behind a drum, three Marshall full stacks and many other bass amps and cabs!).
He created the Octavio pedal for Jimi, and one of his models was given to Billy Gibbons. Tychobrahe Octavia was copied from one stolen RM Octavio prototype.
@@frankscassi4960 Page met him before Jimi while he was doing session work. What was made for Page wasn't a modification of something made for Hendrix, it was from scratch to model the guitar sound Page heard on Ventures record called The 2000 Pound Bee. Mayer still worked for The Admiralty when Page met him.
@@TheKitchenerLeslie I didn't say he modified a Hendrix pedal for Page, neither that he met Hendrix before Page...just that the Tone Bender didn't come from him
@@TheKitchenerLeslie and by the way, take a look at the pedal's schematic and you'll see it IS a modified Maestro Fuzz tone. If you don't want to trust me, here's AnalogMan's analysis of the modern Page-1 pedal, a reissue from RM himself with just a few modern additions (silicon instead of germanium buffer and a IC to deliver the right voltage to the pedal):
"Basically it is an attempt to construct a Maestro Fuzztone with modern means.
Q1 acts only as an input buffer, for this reason it doen´t matter that it is silicon.
IC1 acts as a voltage-divider/driver for the Fuzz-part. 3,9V is a little bit higher than the 3V ued in the FZ-1 (2 batteries).
The fuzz-part with two AC 128 is similar to the 2nd and 3rd transistor in a FZ-1. What the "Attack"-poti does in the Fuzztone, RM is trying to achieve with the "Drive" poti. Remarkable is the low value of the collector-resistor of Q2 with only 1k5."
A really great vid, Pete. I like discovering forgotten knowledge of the times past and have been aware of treble boosters thanks to Tony Iommi, but you really showed how they make the amp sing and demonstrated it in such a natural and entertaining way including killer riffs. Thanks a lot!
Pete: All hail the mighty Judas Priest!
UA-cam: Nope! We goin' straight to an ad about cardio workout.
you're absolutely right. let's not forget the edge, using a treble booster into the same ac30, huge part of the tone that usually gets ignored. everybody focuses on the delay, but a big part of the chime and the full on drive of the early stuff, that amazingly cleaned up immediately on the sustain, came from the booster. great video.
Awesome sounds Pete! Been getting great results with the D*A*M Red Rooster into a Superbass for a while now, definitely an underrated effect.
Priest part crushhhed!
Sad wings of Destiny!
ha! that Iommi riff at the end was killer!
How to get the "lifeless" sound around 0:50 or sth like that? :DDD Its literally AMAZING and i love that tone you called "bad" :D
To each his own! ha!
@@PeteThorn im serious - HOW did you get that sound, i wanna get that!
Tested my new Treble Booster lately and it made A HUGE difference to the sound of my Class5head. One of the best investments i have ever done equipmentwise
What I'd say a treble booster does is really 'focuses' the sound of a distorted guitar. Incredibly useful especially in a mix situation.
Pete, you have changed my entire perception when it comes to gain and distortion, this has helped me in so many ways, thank you.
The guitarist's guitarist! Mighty Pete Thorn!!
Pete, we are kindred souls!
Thank you for doing this, Pete. Because I took the name “treble booster” literally, it did not occur to me that particular device would have done the same thing as the various distortion/sustainer units that I have owned and plugged into myself. It just seems like an equalization tool and nothing more. I wasn’t conscious that all of these trailblazing hard rockers that were pretty much peers of Brian May used it for what I would have thought they used something like the FuzzFace for. It’s definitely worth knowing that it has common connections in Queen, Deep Purple, Slade and Black Sabbath.
Ever since I entered my 20s, I’ve been darting around trying to find some semblance of the Boston guitar tone as assembled by Tom Scholz. People keep saying that there is a world of difference between Boston and queen. Maybe so, but this video definitely has gotten me wondering whether the triple booster is what I should be plugging into instead of anything dedicated towards approximating the Boston tone. In the meantime, it could probably be argued that any number of up-and-coming guitar players that have latched onto queen in the latest wave of popularity might be pursuing Brian‘s sound and we’re probably already have gotten their hands on treble boosters as I leave this comment.
Iommi’s tone kills, and “Into The Void” is my favorite track!
Wow-4:00 ! That IS the sound!
If the treble booster is the most underrated effect, then Rory Gallagher is the most underrated player! I have a treble booster, but it is noisy as hell! But I love the sound
You Rock Mr Pete ..! 😮
I bought my '62 Strat at Take Five in 1969 but it was in Shaftesbury Avenue by then, almost but not quite opposite Sound City
I've been on the fence about the treble booster. Dan and Mick certainly made it clear how useful they can be and why people have a natural aversion to the idea of a "treble booster" without good examples. But I have to say, this is the best demo of their capabilities and I'm seeking out that /13 unit right now! Man, that Iommi demo was hair raising! 🙌🏻 Thanks Pete!
Pete, with politics dominating social media you are one of my few destination islands for respite and relief. Insightful video serving up the sauce used to make some of the classic rock tunes we love. Well played. Well done!
I have an original dallas rangemaster that was gifted to me back in the early 70's by a friend for whom I had built some effects pedals. He had bought it in the 60's and never really used it much. It's a bit beat up nowadays, but is still all original (except for the battery connector) and works perfectly.
I built an Alembic Stratoblaster pedal kit and it is simply amazing.
Pete is the Tone-Master !!
The brian may tone is exquisite!! If I wouldn't have known any better, I would have thought it was Brian himself, seriously, it's spot on
This inspired me to build a Rangemaster Treble Booster. Easy to build and I have some wicked mods and it cost less than $25 to do! Thanks you so much!
My Naga Viper also sounds great into the Orange channel of my Tremoverb. When you roll the guitar volume down and crank the reverb or use a short analog delay it cops an awesome Link Wray, Rumble vibe
Tony Iommi is a legend! I can listen to his tone for hours is given the chance. Awesome video!
Ive been eyeing up the throbak strangemaster for a while, now i might have to pull the trigger. Thanks.
Wow, that's rare to hear a tone captured so perfectly!
Love this video. I've come back to watch it multiple times. I'm a Queen fan and you did a great job capturing that magic tone. Thoughtful and articulate presentation as well.
Thanks!
Your videos bring so much joy. Thank you.
Damn it Pete, you’re gonna get me into building these. I already got enough projects!!!
Exactly at 4:00 For me, honestly, that is one of the absolute best rock tones ive ever heard. Balanced with no mass of unpleasing frequencies, and so luscious!
Lot of smiles on my side, Pete that's great!
And I saw Rory at one of the famous World Series Of Rock at Cleveland Stadium
Just seeing this for the first time, Pete. Great video and love the magic the treble boost adds... I think for some there is this preconceived notion that it will get too sharp in the high end, given the name, but you can hear both clarity and harmonic enrichment that is just super pleasing. And thanks for the shoutout to my favorite band, Judas Priest!
Great episode Pete. Steve Vai's use of those fancy rack eq's to boost treble is a cleaner version of the same thing. My main guitar is a Parker Fly and that can pull a similar trick because it can produce a mighty surfeit of treble.
Tie your mother down is my absolute favourite Queen song and you absolutely nail it. That riff is up there with the best riffs of all time. Oh yeah you blow me away with your playing!!!!!!! Keep on rocking.
Thanks! Me too I love it
@@PeteThorn have you met brian may? He uses a kat red 18 treble booster which is designed to go with his radio pack.
This just brings to mind the "Play a Plexi" video. All of the humbucker-equipped guitars were dark and a little muddy, while the single-coil guitars actually worked quite well.
Into The Void - well played sir
I used a Vox plug in on my Magnatone amp when I was in our high school band. We used it exclusively when we played No Where Man
Dude, you totally nailed the May sound.
When you started playing the riff to Into the Void all the hair in my arms stood up.. awesome
Good one Pete. Love the TB
What a great Queen tune
Part my pedal/tone journey has been discovering these cool old tools and how to use them. Rangemasters are killer!
Another excellent vid from my fave gear demo bloke!
Hey Pete, very rocking video, and I think you just gateway ‘d me into needing/wanting a - “Treble Booster “! Now to just pick one. Or two, or... damn you for being so kickass!
Your Tommy I. tone was so right in my opinion. (It doesn't hurt to be Pete Thorn either) This was a very useful video, very easy to implement and not some unobtainable holy grail that cost a small fortune. I was wondering if Vox got the idea from this Rangemaster to offer their AC30 TB (Top Boost?)
Nailed those iconic tones! Thanks for posting👍
Start off with the Riff Lord right out of the box! 🤘❤🎸💥