Tumnus is the best Klon clone on the the market. You should be proud of that pedal!

@BobJones-bh9qz

3 жыл бұрын

I’m in love with it lol, I’m getting one as soon as possible

@mdp303

3 жыл бұрын

Totally. My favourite too👍🤘

@michaelraimondi4448

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed, and the Deluxe is even better.

@jackreynolds6535

3 жыл бұрын

Agree 100% I haven't even considered another OD pedal since I got my Tumnus three years ago.

@lukeweiler1192

3 жыл бұрын

Def my have side jacked Klone !

Awesome vid! Been looking for ever to see an in depth explanation of the GE-7, love how you always go the extra mile and show the graphs and interactions the knobs have on the overall sound. Awesome channel, looking forward to buy one of your pedals soon. Cheers!

Brian, PLEASE put that treble booster into production. I'll order one straight away. That crunch was sublime!

@bilkywaygalaxy

3 жыл бұрын

Treble boosters are amazing! I use one as an always on pedal, simply into an AC30 with a little Chorus, perfect.

@SaxJockey

3 жыл бұрын

@@bilkywaygalaxy Made one from a kit. At first I thought it was not 'an always on pedal'...soon changed my mind 🤘.

@JoelCaseyJonesMusic

2 жыл бұрын

💯

@gilguajardo7808

2 жыл бұрын

Kind of a shame to not demonstrate how dramatically a treble booster cleans up with the guitar’s volume knob. That’s what makes it a killer always-on pedal.

@jasonmote9529

6 ай бұрын

Nigel Knight makes some amazing treble boosters

the Tumnus pedal actually transformed my playing. I worship that tiny golden box!

I always appreciate your insight and the comments section is helpful as well! I’m trying to sort out the boost world at the moment, so thank you very much!

Excellent breakdown of the types of boosts. Ive not really branched away from all my mid range honkers like the boss OD2 and the like. Your spectrum diagrams really helped somebody like me, an electronics technician by trade for 20 years, understand that there are actual differences in thee boosts. I have designed many filter circuits myself and never really thought about how the top boost was really a high pass with an unusually high cutoff. this has my full attention because I have been battling honk and woof my entire 20 years of guitar tinkering. I assumed the top boost would just pile on treble on top of the mud I already had. Thanks again for your insights and clear explanation!

I use a Matchless and mostly Wampler pedals, I’m very happy with my tone. Your demo here is awesome and your amp sounds phenomenal, you really demo the different frequencies correctly. Another great video by you! Thank you

Bless you for educating me about a true Treble Booster sound that I have loved for so many years!!!

I use a Black Country Customs Iommi treble booster. When I use it with the EVH 5150 overdrive the results are what I want. My Boss GE 7 did not give me the sound I wanted when I combined it with that overdrive, at any setting. You did a great job explaining why this is the case. Thank you so much! :)

Thank you so much Brian for explaining this, I've always loved my Boss EQ but noticed that it is different than my tumnus mini or my Keeley Katana boost regardless of how I played with the EQ settings.

OK - so this is the best honest no nonsense video i have seen in a long time. Data driving what we are hearing in the frequencies .I tested these hypotheses on my own rig and they proved out .. this cleared up a LOT of confusion for me ..Anyone else would have been self-serving and slanted it where the Tunmus was the key factor , but instead this was scientific , unbiased and appreciated ! In fact I have never owned a Wampler pedal but they are on top of my list because of this guys approach- i am confident they are of good quality because of the engineer/engineering behind it …

I work as a data visualization professional with a background in sciences - I really appreciate your frequency charts! They really hammer home the point!

I appreciate how your Bravado amp is really neutral yet crunchy when pushed. It’s not Fender or Marshall or Vox but a kind of just in the middle not skewed in any tonal direction. I own your Tumnus and tweed57 pedals. Love your videos and the fact you share your knowledge. Thanks! Tim

Appreciate the breakdown on how EQ pedals work. Answered a lot of questions for me. Cheers

As usual lots of good advice along with a great pedal. Thank ya!

I absolutely love the Boss EQ-200. Having two separate 10 band EQs in one pedal is amazingly flexible. I put the channel A EQ before the effects loop, and the channel B EQ after. So powerful. But other than the EQ pedal, I pretty much have a Wampler pedal board. The Tumnus Deluxe is the best overdrive I have ever used, and I absolutely love the Ego compressor. I’m saving up for the Terraform, and excited to try your delay and reverbs as well.

Q is rarely mentioned in the pedal world, except maybe wah pedals. Thanks for doing this!

@Ottophil

3 жыл бұрын

I’m starting to notice Q being mentioned in politics. Scary shit, those q anon weirdos want to kill us americans

@thenewmedic

3 жыл бұрын

You see it more frequently with parametric EQs too

@lueysixty-six7300

3 жыл бұрын

Well...I'm glad you pair of nerds are lathered up over "Q" - But for headbangers like my good self...we ain't got the foggiest!

@ThorHall1985

3 жыл бұрын

Check Stone Deaf pedals - They're making the most of EQ in the modern market.

@daddydothang8635

3 жыл бұрын

There's a reason they call television the idiot box.

I tried many boosts and ended up with Black Country Custom (Laney) TI boost. Always learn something new on your channel especially about the eq pedal. Thanks

Super explanation of an extremely versatile pedal! Thanks for what you do Brian! Your tone always curls my toes :D

Really like this kind of content! The Frequency Analysis was icing on the quake! I love treble boosters as a boost, but I struggle to balance their output or set them up to work nicely with a driven amp (I.e., I always get more gain than level). In the meantime, I really like a TS style pedal as a boost or an EQ pedal/Boss LS-2.

His was great Brian! Thanks for the clarity. Helps explain why I like a treble booster so much.

That Boss eq pedal was my secret weapon for my guitar sound for the whole last half of the '80s. I loved how you could really put some definition on a lead tone with it without cranking the overall volume if you didn't want to.

This is what I really like about Wampler we're not just hearing the sound but we can see how it works. Thank you sir

Learned a new thing about how EQ pedals work - thanks Brian!

@simon_patterson

2 жыл бұрын

Same here! That was my biggest take away from this video.

I watched this video and I approve this message. The end really cracked me up, nice touch.

Top Boost, or Treble Boost, is what I have been missing on my Tone Quest in life. I do want to hear the Piano sound of the wound strings and the chimey sound of the plan strings!!! Well done. Bless you for sharing your wisdom with your community!!!

This video is an audio lesson. I came to this video because I received my Tumnus today. Very satisfied.

I love treble boost. My all time favorite distortion sound that I've had was using the treble boost side of the Roland BeeBaa clone that my buddy helped me build into my Silvertone 1484. I sadly don't have that amp anymore but I still use that pedal to get my distortion sound. I now just run it into whatever slightly overdriven sound I have (either from amp or pedals). They are so simple but so good, just makes it fun to play guitar. The explanation you gave about the EQ pedal was really helpful to understand the difference in frequency response. Thanks!

Thanks Brian. Love your vids. Not all your pedals work for me, but the Tumnus is crazy good.

This video explains why my Beano Boost made its way to first in the chain on my board. i knew it sounded best there, but I didn't know why. Now I know why. Thanks!

Ahh that endless quest for the ultimate tone, a journey that many of us share. Thanks BW for making that journey much more enjoyable. Oh and please, package up that treble booster and put me down for one.

Great demo, Brian. Now I get it; regarding the EQ vs "Treble Boost". --- Thank you

That Tumnus is such an incredible, fun, versatile pedal, that turns any amp I’ve used it on (right when the amp was starting to break-up into a crunch setting) into a classic hard-rock beast. Per Brian’s suggestion I picked up an EQ (Boss EQ 7) to use on a SLO 30 to try and tighten it up a bit, and I’m really looking forward to seeing how the SLO sounds with either one (or both) those pedals. I grabbed his Ego compressor, as well (just on a hunch), given that a bit of compressor always seem to enhance those killer “brown-ish” tones….. GREAT video, Brian! Thank you!

very nice demonstration, I have never really understood Treble Booster before this.

It was really insightful seeing the frequency response spectrum for each circuit. There is not much information out there about the frequency response of the Dumble “skyline” tone stack. Would be interesting to see something similar about that circuit. Thanks for all you do!

Your channel is the shit. Straight to the point and no nonsense just like your products. Awesome stuff Brian

Just tried the Tumnus last night and really like it. I also really like your Treble Booster and would like to see you put it in production!!

I don’t know which one I like the best but I know I just purchased that Tumnus Deluxe and I am really looking forward to it 😁 Great explanations in the video as always

Just what I needed these days. Thanks, Brian!

Love the Tumnus! ❤ I got the mini and the Deluxe. Great pedals. Thanks, man!

@Wampler Pedals Super cool and informative video! I play into an AC30 and people always say I should use a treble booster, but this is the first time I feel like I actually understand what that circuit does. I use a Source Audio EQ2 with midi presets as my main boost tone, often with high and low pass filters at 100Hz and 16k and boosts around 2.5k for solos. Also have Tumnus as a gain stacking boost and dB+ to balance out difference when switching between humbuckers and single coils.

Recent bought a treble booster. Love it into crunchy and high gain amps and pedals. Really as a solo boost. I also love tube screamer with low gain into a overdriven amp. Haven't tried a klon yet.

Thank you for this video! I learned more about eq in a few minutes thank I had ever knew.

Nice explanation on Q. I wish I had those screen shots when doing an explanation on that a few months ago.

Thanks again Brian for answering that question. I love treble boosters, but hate the temperamental Germainium transistors. I’ve been trying to find a replacement for my treble booster to get away from that Germania transistor, but I haven’t found anything yet. What I found, though is my treble booster into the Wampler Gearbox tones for days. Thanks again for crafting amazing tone boxes.

💥mind blown💥 For me trying to dial in that ever elusive "TONE" This was most helpful sir.

Hi and God bless!!! Always impressed at the quality of knowledge you impart on your videos. Really helpful. P.S. There is NO way to make a Tumnus sound bad. It just ain’t happening. 👍🏻🇵🇷

Had no idea eq pedals work like that. Makes so much more sense now. Thanks.

holy crap. you have a custom shop bender. omg. i have yet to play one and might just pull the trigger and get one one of these days. love your tumnus! by far the best of the klon style circuits out there.

I love the mxr 108, hands down my favorite pedal eq

I remember that by changing the opamp on the boss EQ, like a quality burr brown, you can make it a lot less noisy.

Love your channel man...soni was surprised by the fender engager boost pedal in front of my dual rec 100 watt so head....turned it into a flame thrower!

Okay, I’ve watched this another 3 times….it’s so good!

Another great video, this man just does not miss

Nice and straight video ad usual. Great work. And great work with your Tumnus too, nice vibe. I use a Timmy clone for boosting and for my “standard” cleanish sound. It is kinda more “modern-voiced” to me (into Marshal Origin, very low gain amp)

I knew those EQs were spiky vs smooth! Glad to finally see it

Thank you! This is a good video to how treble boosts differ (and I'm sure, confirmation bias here) why I like them so much.

Excellent explanation; really learnt some stuff here! Thanks!

That sound with Treble booster is to die for

The TUMNUS (mini)is my favorite pedal, period ! I have 2 on my board, 1 for my KLON type overdrive which you can get identical to the K.T.R. (because I have one) the 2nd. one is at the end of the chain, I have the gain set to about 7 (just a touch on) and I leave the pedal on all the time. The TUMNUS also set this way but with the volume up is a great boost pedal. Really gives it that punch. Idea for you , TUMNUS , Version 3 - 2 mini TUMNUS in one "double" pedal. To me size is getting more & more important. Like I said earlier, your mini TUMNUS replaced my K.T.R because,1) I could get the same sound (at least to my ears) 2) It was about 1/3 the size. Another great "double pedal" I would buy in a heartbeat would be the TUMNUS on one side and the EGO compressor on the other or something like Keely's work station. It would be perfect if it just sounded a little better. (not a fan of the "Red Dirt" to "knife in the chest" IMHO. Imagine, If you did 3 effects, compressor, TUMNUS overdrive, and a heavier overdriv(or even 2nd. TUMNUS in one small box you sell a million of them. You have great circuits and sounding pedals. I know the biggest problem is the price point. With say the new Line 6,POD Go for $450.00 its hard to compete. Look at what you get in that package for $450.00. Look at the size of the HELIX Stomp for what you get. I think its no bigger than the Brent Mason pedal. But on the other side I just spent $420.00 for the new GLADIO pedal but was disappointed.There even on backorder for 3 months. In closing, all I'm really trying to say , if possible please keep the size down on pedals like the mini TUMNUS if your keep the WAMPLER sound outstanding and think about more double (or triple) pedals in a small enclosure. DONNER does a great job at this if the pedals would sound a little better. Board Real Estate is getting more important everyday and I'm getting to old to carry a big pedal board around. Side note, I just ordered a Jetter GS- 248, its 2-GS-124's (the 2nd. one is a little more beefed up) in one box. Keep the great pedals and your great video's coming. Tell Brent Jimmy Mac said hello when you see him. Aloha

The naga viper trebble booster is my always on secret weapon. Love it !

Great, now I want a top boost XD. Very informative Brian, thanks!

I’ve been thinking about purchasing a Tumnus for awhile now. Though, I never considered a treble boost until this video... 🤔 All crunch tones are really inspiring in this video 😎 high five ✋🏼

Brian! We've missed you! Hope everything is going well. Thanks for sharing your awesomeness!

perfect explanation, dude...PS: I love your book as well...

I was using an EQ as a boost. However lately I have been running a Klon-style with the gain low (not off), treble at 1:00 or Mostortion clone with gain low and bass 9:00, Mid 2:00, treb 3:00. Either of those into a Pantheon with cleanish gain have been some of my favorite tones. I'm going to find a Treble booster to try out soon! I am in the process of borrowing a Tumnus Deluxe to try the three band EQ to see if I like that better. FWIW I'm stacking three gain pedals, Klon-type low gain into Pantheon (low gain) into Klon-type higher gain. I have been pretty happy these days!

Treble boosters like the Range Master are great, like Brian said, without a buffer or anything before it. Two other boosters that I like are the EH LPB-2 (or LPB-1 now) and the boost section of the ZVex Box o' Rock, something about those two that really get a vintage amp cookin', been hearing a lot of good things about the Xotic EP boost but never tried. Have fun boosting!

I really like the ep booster, but I also am a huge fan of the Tumnus- great pedal !!!

You posted this on my birthday! And you're still schooling us. Thank you for all you do, Sir.

Thanks I’m glad to learn why I like all of these.

I love a top boost into a high gain amp. That tight, thick, saturated wall of sound is so addictive. That breadboard circuit at the end sounded great without the buffer.

Holy 💩 that treble boost sounds awesome! I am currently using a Hardwire CM-2 as a boost. I love how it bonds with and complements the amp distortion.

Thank you so much for sharing this valuable information! God bless you and your whole family ...

I tested the xotic rc booster, tc spark mini, and even the legendary timmy as a lead boost pedal and the best result I had was without a doubt with the tumnus (mini). The way he cuts the mix, adding well-defined midrange and not making the sound “woofy” is unique! (my problem now is that I need a new tumnus at the beginning of the chain jejejejeje...)

The Boss EQ pedal is the best overall pedal I have. Sometimes it's difficult to cut through the mix in a full band situation. This pedal can finetune the mids just enough to cut through, without increasing the overall volume. Highly recommended for a low price.

@mr.mcmagpie6606

2 жыл бұрын

It's a good pedal with lots of uses but if it's the "best" pedal you have, you need to try some others. I wouldn't even say that boss makes the best eq pedal.... but with this all being said, it's s all subjective....

@dogslobbergardens6606

2 жыл бұрын

@@mr.mcmagpie6606 the point is that they're using the EQ correctly (IMO): Letting the right freqs come through without constantly just pushing levels. Personally I've always preferred a 32-band rack EQ for fine-tuning to the room/band mix (it's the only rack "effect" I ever kept, actually) but those just don't seem very popular these days. Everybody loves stompboxes.

So... I constantly keep going back to putting the comp w/treble boost pedal (legacy pedal) in front of most of my amps in the helix... just sounds better to me. Seems to fit this theory. This sounded fantastic by the way. Thank you for the vid!

Thx for posting Wampler. Good info!

Thanks for this video Brian. I was sitting here just last night thinking about if I were to ever get of rid my Boss EQ(which is modded and great btw), could I survive with a treble booster. The answer is yes I think. I never use the EQ pedal like many session cats do which is maybe to get a small little radio type sound or say transform a guitar into sounding like another etc. My point is I never mess with more than one of the 6 bands and even then it’s not drastic. I actually love how my guitars and other od’s sound different from each other. But I’ve got the Drybell unit 67 and I find I use it in place of say an Rc boost, Mk 4.23, Cali 76 and EQ pedal because it doesn’t have extra stuff I’d never use, it has exactly what I need. I find a treble boost is more beneficial than 6 band eq for me. Especially since a front of house guy or a studio engineer is going to carve out eq’s anyways. If I get the tone “I” wanna hear then I get inspired to play and that’s what really matters. Nice video Brian. 👍🏻

I have a T-Rex Tonebug Boost pedal and it has a Scoop knob that allows for accenting the tone area. It works pretty well.

Very interesting demo. Thanks

Great video, very informative about how eq pedals work. I actually like my Clarksdale as a boost better than the Tumnus mini, Clarksdale into Greer Lightspeed is glorious. Tumnus is cool but it's so subtle I could probably live without it, but it looks so cool I can't take it off my board.

@jakollee

3 жыл бұрын

Bluesbreaker2020 the tumnus does look cool! I have a TS mini at the front of my chain for a mid-boost into other drives, and a tumnus near the end (before delay) mainly as a volume boost for when my drummer is drowning me out.

Another great video! I love when you use frequency response charts and graphs. I prefer the treble boost. I would like a treble boost with a switch from almost full just a touch of high pass filtering to -6db. I don't like the Boss GE7 for big boosts or cuts it's too choppy sounding. I use the EQuater for my Acoustic lead boost or a EQD Tone Job for Acoustic boost the wide 1k mid control just works really well for acoustic lead. Don't really like either for Electric.

That was helpful and educational, thanks dude.

What a great video Brian! Thx!

I use both a Treblebooster and a Tumnus to boost depending on what I’m boosting it for. The Tumnus has a tighter low end and the Treblebooster is more fuzz like. Love them both.

Took me a while to find the sound I wanted, experimenting with a range of pedals. Finally got there, exactly as Brian mentions here: Guitar > Treble Boost > OD and other pedals works best for me...and bring down the bass on a driven amp 👍. Makes such a difference to an inherently warm/thick guitar tone (e.g. humbucker/semi-hollow) and a 'woofy' drive amp 😂.

Had to make a 2nd comment to say that a treble booster into a klon is a match made in heaven. The warm full klon being boosted by the bright, tighter treble booster sounds really great!

I use an old DOD FX-10 Bi-FET pre-amp. It was designed to pre-amp acoustic guitar piezo pickups, but I use it to set up my other pedals. It seems to buffer and provide a nice boost. It goes first, making the following pedals sound better.

My "secret weapon" of choice is the Spaceman Mercury IV harmonic booster. It is one of my "ALWAYS on" pedals. However, if you don't want to be on a waiting list to buy a Spaceman, my #1 favourite booster is the Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster, with the Resonance Peak switch set to 2.

nice video, lots of boost pedals out there, im clean sound person, just tried a Danelectro breakdown boost and it seemed cool, im using an SP boost right now and its too loud but still works

Bernice mountain hop? I like the versatility of boosting with a Eq . Nice end b roll MT-2 mega monster tone🤘🏽🤘🏽 I hope the goats are doing well 🤘🏽

The life size Boss Waza Craft Metal Zone at the end of the video made me laugh. So unexpected. The accompanying music was hilarious and perfectly fittingly. I use my Tumnus Deluxe or EQD Plumes as my clean boosts. I use a bit of hair on the Tumnus but it’s barely perceptible.

@MrHrannsi

3 жыл бұрын

It got me thinking: what a fun DIY project it would be, to spice up a man-cave fridge so it looks like a Metal Zone.

I had an MXR pedal eq with a built in boost and it treble boosted a tube amp into HEAVEN

My search for the perfect boost lead me in a circle, from a Laney TI Boost to the Dual Fusion to an MXR thing then back to the Laney. Nothing is quite like a treble booster.

Ace explanations. Thx you!

Man, I love the Tumnus(mine is a deluxe). Its my go-to light overdrive now. I like it a lot more than the pedal it replaced.

If you pin every fader on the BOSS, that’s what I would expect to see. Just as you showed with the raw data. I would imagine it would look similar if the EQ was not on. I don’t know if you rectify the rod data spikes like I have done with other types of research. And even though I could do it myself, I kind of wish you would have dialed in a close a tone as you could on the EQ, to the treble boost circuit. Maxing out the mids and treble on the EQ seemed like quite a jump… a lot of gray area in between. But great stuff as always man, I’ll go back and finish the rest of your video. I’m just thinking out loud, ha ha. Keep up the great work. 🤘🏻😝🎸🇺🇸

Great video, I'm a big fan of Rangemaster style treble boosters. Very useful for when you need to cut through/get some more bite from a darker sounding setup. Maybe you want a chunky rhythm tone and when you switch to the bridge pickup it's just not cutting through enough. Slap a Rangemaster on :)

I've been repairing and building amps for several years. I've done a fair share of pedals and have done a LOT of switching systems and helped players put pedalboards together. I can't even begin to count the amount of times I've looked at a players board and they had a half dozen ODs, couple boosts and preamps. They have ALL of those, but no EQ or compression. My reaction is almost always "dude, forget the OD, you essentially already have it on your board, buy a fu¢king EQ." It would literally render half their gain pedals redundant. A good EQ and compressor can make 2 overdrives cover the ground of anything you may need. For years the high gain tone I used with Strats (with vintage type and output singlecoil) was a Triangle era Big Muff, with an EQ or TS style overdrive adding midrange. Using the EQ after the Muff was my "Gilmore" lead tone, and what I finally discovered after chasing that sound, was his he got his Comfortably Numb lead. If I ran the EQ before the Muff it sounded like a dimed Marshall stack. It makes the thin singlecoil bridge pickup sound massive. If you heard it and I said it was a Les Paul into a Marshall you'd have no reason to doubt me. My advice to someone starting a board from scratch would be to get a Timmy and Klon type overdrives, a good EQ (for going into the front end I've been using a Source Audio programmable EQ for years, I typically use a different one in the loop though), and a compressor; preferably something with a Wet/dry blend control. At that point, anything you buy afterwards is going to be SO much more useful, but honestly I don't think you'll have the need for half of them.

I use a klon type circuit 100% of the time for live use. For recording I've started using a VST tubescreamer set to pretty extreme settings, then blending some clean signal back in