Visual Sound True Tone Clean Boost -30 Pedals in 30 Days- Day #23 Winter NAMM 2011 '11 TrueTone FRPC

[AskAGuitarPro]

Great video man. With the boost all the way up, what is the amount of decibel gain? Thx! BTW great tone at 9:18!!!

[Yotakari14]

Best review of a pedal I have ever seen!

1. Brilliant Guitar Playing

2. Accurately Tuned Guitar

3. Fantastic Video Quality (not filmed on a phone :L)

4. Fantastic Audio Quality

5. No Wobbly Camera

I could go on :) will defiantly get this pedal thanks to your excellent review!

[lewandlo]

will this pedal give me more sustain??

[stevehillis7]

Would like to have seen the boost on a pedal board with other pedals to see how it reacts with them.

[aeartress]

I had no idea boost pedals worked so much better in the fx loop. As far as boosting the volume that is.

[polloramirez]

you should have paul riario do a review :D

[eukicos]

30 pedals 30 days almost over... :(

[akaboo69]

sweet video

[akaboo69]

I would use the true tone to drive a plexi not to knock the volume down

[Dennizzz119]

What happens when u put it in line of the distortion channel? Because i cant get that amount of gain from my clean channel,lol

[hawg427]

I thought TK had plastic surgery. LOL 27 Volts Whew! I thought Fulltone gave you some juice at 18 Volts on some of their pedals. You can really hear a better effect running the pedal thru the effects loop.

[McDouchebag22]

could you do one of the boss chorus pedals.

[McDouchebag22]

Great Playing

[mudbone80]

For a second I thought I clicked on the wrong video in my subscription video :) By the way FastRedPonyCar, even though this was a great demo, I kind of like the rough shot, informal nature of your older videos.

[lmsjr]

@mudbone80 haha - thx mudbone! We're just having some fun, mixing it up a bit. As always, I appreciate the kind words! Happy Holidays!

[McDouchebag22]

@lmsjr could you do one of the boss chorus pedals.

[GuitaristAidan]

@mudbone80 I agree, seems like they're trying to be PGS lol

[logeybear5150]

could you use this to push a a tube amp in the same way a hot plate does?, but maybe not to the same extent by using the volume cut feature

[lmsjr]

@logeybear5150 A hot plate allows you to run the power tubes very hot (b/t amp & cab) - a favorible tone when using non-master volume amps. A pedal like this would / could sit in an FX loop, which allows you to crank the pre-amp, but you won't get any power tube saturation. Some amps sound good w/ power tube saturation (e.g., a plexi), others could sound a bit muddy (like a modern high gain amp which depends on the pre-amp gain). So, depending on your amp, this may / may not work for ya!

[FastRedPonyCar]

@logeybear5150 no a hotplate allows full power tube output to get to the speakers and only lowers the volume of THAT signal. You can't use this unit between the amp/cab.

This can only be used to lower the signal that goes from the preamp to the power section so you can crank the volume on the amp but not really utilize the power section heavily.

Totally different but not a worse solution... some amps sound better attenuated this way than with the hotplate. My nitro is an example.

[logeybear5150]

@FastRedPonyCar ah, i forgot that the hotplate goes between the head and cab.

[houseband239]

Where'd you get the amp?

[FastRedPonyCar]

@houseband239 Zach Stephens builds them over in Columbus, GA. His site is titanamplifiers dot c o m

He can build pretty much whatever you want him to build and his prices are fair.

[isamu1921]

Two of my favorite subscribed gear review channels together! I think FastRedPonyCar's reviews are a bit better though. He's got really good knowledge of gear, recording, and better chops than TTK.

[lmsjr]

@isamu1921 haha, thanks isamu. Yes, FRPC has some chops, no doubt about it!!

[ace69er]

I have a SD clean boost pedal. I use it the SAME way as 1st described! IN the FX loop as a vol boost! Works well. I DO notice however when I do, it does come out a tad brighter. Probably due to me pushing the power stage a bit more.

In the front, on the lead ch it does very little but squash the signal more.

So I stick to loop boost.

I run this thru a Bugera V55HD.

[Acronso]

it does perform very differently in a clean channel, you chould have covered that

but for you first demo its very good ;D

[FastRedPonyCar]

@Acronso thanks for checking it out man. Not my first demo by any stretch but my first for TTK. Anyways, I really didn't hear it do a whole lot on the clean channel of any of my amps. It was more or less like raising the clean channel's volume knob up or down and the tone knob adding or cutting a little high end. IMO an overdrive pedal with the gain all the way down would be a better option for pushing a clean channel.

[Acronso]

@FastRedPonyCar tanks for the explanation!!

hope to see you soon!

and btw merry chrismas!!!

[TheHawkdaddy]

I was gonna request a visual sound pedal the other day, crazy.

[FastRedPonyCar]

@TheHawkdaddy if you get a chance, try their tube screamer clone. It's very good. Easily as good as anything maxon makes.

[lmsjr]

@TheHawkdaddy we read your mind :-)

[gtrjoe68]

Jim Dunlop MC401 MXR Boost - VS - Visual Sound True Tone Clean Boost?? Maybe the same thing. Great vid.

[MEGATROID114]

very informative. this helps anyone who wants a clean boost and what they have to look into when buying one, so they dont end up buying the wrong thing thinking its a clean boost.

[jacksback1021]

is the first dude the tone prince? anyway great ep :D

[TheRoflc0pterz]

First!

[lmsjr]

@TheRoflc0pterz 21st comment!

[TheRoflc0pterz]

@lmsjr hehe :D,

Rock on TTK :)

[jacksback1021]

secondo

[mortu777]

First!:D