Damn! That's good info to know about the channels. Didn't know that at all. Looking into buying one and nobody ever showed that in their demos. Thanks.
Believe it or not, I have used this pedal with my acoustic Blues rig for the last 15 or more years. Same principle applies: boost or burn... and the burn channel is fed by the boost channel. Simple Volume-Master relationship.
That's strange because I just tried my original issue Koko Boost into my year old Deluxe Reverb Tonemaster blonde, and I could quite comfortably get to 11:00, albeit with my guitar volume 1/4 to 1/3 the way down, which is how I start off with my electric guitars no matter what. (Keep the volume boost in your restrained guitar knob). I thought it was quite transparent on the green channel, while the red-Mid channel brings on some ZZ Top saturation. I have always loved this pedal!
@@guitarfreak585 I totally hear ya! The toys we get rid of before fully exploring them and giving them (or us) time to grow with it. Patience I guess. Cheers 🍺
His amp is a single channel amp with a dirty side only. The gain stages are what make the difference I believe. He gets the clean sounds by rolling the volume off on his guitar.
I hope you have figured it out by now, but you seem to be using this wrong. You don’t say clearly what you were hoping it would do for you. You seem to want to use it like an OD, but thats not how boosts are designed to be used. All those other videos that you complain are using an amp that is already breaking up instead of a clean amp, are using it the way it was designed to be used. It’s simply designed to get more of your amp’s own distortion by hammering the front end of a dirty amp that is already running out of headroom. A clean amp still has headroom, so a boost will ONLY make it louder (instead of dirtier) as you have already discovered. Hopefully you have figured out that you might have the wrong tool for what you wanted to do. I’m not even sure from the video what you actually expected from the pedal? Were you hoping to get overdrive from a clean boost into a clean amp? It doesn’t work that way. A clean boost into a clean amp with plenty of headroom left will only increase the volume. The ONLY way to get OD “without” a volume boost with a clean boost is into and amp that has no headroom left, ie and already dirty amp just as the other demos used. Hope this helps!
Brian G you're absolutely right. I didn't know any of those things when I made this video. I guess I thought that it would work like a volume boost that added a bit of drive, because the way Guthrie Govan uses it, into a dirty amp, thats what it does. I didn't realize that it mattered at the time. I was veeeeery very new to the whole pedalboard thing. The only pedals I'd used before were into a two channel high gain amp playing high gain stuff. I got into a completely different style band and got this deluxe reverb, and discovered an entirely new world.
Brian G absolutely. I've come a long way since this video lol. Someday I'll make a new video of my current rig. You can see it on IG if you like @mossbrosbandcody
Did you find a pedal that would have a similar effect on a clean amp? I’m just wondering how the country players get that fat tone with what seems to be a mid boost like this pedal, especially in Guthrie’s video.
I would say a compressor, or even two low gain pedals into each other. Right now I'm using an Xotic EP booster running into a Wampler Tumnus for that mid push.
Damn! That's good info to know about the channels. Didn't know that at all. Looking into buying one and nobody ever showed that in their demos. Thanks.
AspiringGuitarist thats EXACTLY why I made this. I bought it and was really disappointed.
2:48 sounds incredible btw!
Thanks so much for this! Very informative!
Believe it or not, I have used this pedal with my acoustic Blues rig for the last 15 or more years. Same principle applies: boost or burn... and the burn channel is fed by the boost channel. Simple Volume-Master relationship.
Was looking for a demo like this, thanks! Did you find a usable purpose for it or ended up selling it on?
I ended up selling it, it was wasted on a setup like I run. Into a dirty amp it would be gnarly.
That's strange because I just tried my original issue Koko Boost into my year old Deluxe Reverb Tonemaster blonde, and I could quite comfortably get to 11:00, albeit with my guitar volume 1/4 to 1/3 the way down, which is how I start off with my electric guitars no matter what. (Keep the volume boost in your restrained guitar knob). I thought it was quite transparent on the green channel, while the red-Mid channel brings on some ZZ Top saturation. I have always loved this pedal!
I think I could probably use the pedal in this way now, but all those years ago, I was so so new to the pedal game. I've come a long way since then.
@@guitarfreak585 I totally hear ya! The toys we get rid of before fully exploring them and giving them (or us) time to grow with it. Patience I guess. Cheers 🍺
so you're saying a pedal used incorrectly is different to the same pedal used the way its meant to be. thanks!
Richard Barnett yes. This whole thing has been a big learning experience. The pedals you use rely a loooot on the amp and the order you put them in.
Guthrie govan shows it with clean setup on his video where he shows his pedalboard
His amp is a single channel amp with a dirty side only. The gain stages are what make the difference I believe. He gets the clean sounds by rolling the volume off on his guitar.
I agree totally, had the Same set up .
I hope you have figured it out by now, but you seem to be using this wrong.
You don’t say clearly what you were hoping it would do for you.
You seem to want to use it like an OD, but thats not how boosts are designed to be used.
All those other videos that you complain are using an amp that is already breaking up instead of a clean amp, are using it the way it was designed to be used.
It’s simply designed to get more of your amp’s own distortion by hammering the front end of a dirty amp that is already running out of headroom.
A clean amp still has headroom, so a boost will ONLY make it louder (instead of dirtier) as you have already discovered.
Hopefully you have figured out that you might have the wrong tool for what you wanted to do.
I’m not even sure from the video what you actually expected from the pedal? Were you hoping to get overdrive from a clean boost into a clean amp?
It doesn’t work that way. A clean boost into a clean amp with plenty of headroom left will only increase the volume. The ONLY way to get OD “without” a volume boost with a clean boost is into and amp that has no headroom left, ie and already dirty amp just as the other demos used.
Hope this helps!
Brian G you're absolutely right. I didn't know any of those things when I made this video. I guess I thought that it would work like a volume boost that added a bit of drive, because the way Guthrie Govan uses it, into a dirty amp, thats what it does. I didn't realize that it mattered at the time. I was veeeeery very new to the whole pedalboard thing. The only pedals I'd used before were into a two channel high gain amp playing high gain stuff. I got into a completely different style band and got this deluxe reverb, and discovered an entirely new world.
CodyMBB I’m glad you’re getting it all sorted out. It can be very confusing at times.
I know it was (and often still is! 😜) for me.
Brian G absolutely. I've come a long way since this video lol. Someday I'll make a new video of my current rig. You can see it on IG if you like @mossbrosbandcody
Did you find a pedal that would have a similar effect on a clean amp? I’m just wondering how the country players get that fat tone with what seems to be a mid boost like this pedal, especially in Guthrie’s video.
I would say a compressor, or even two low gain pedals into each other. Right now I'm using an Xotic EP booster running into a Wampler Tumnus for that mid push.
CodyMBB okay, thanks for the quick feedback!
@@maxholliday5097 no problem sir. Thanks for watching!