TREBLE BOOSTER- VOX Treble Booster ___NEW ___Rangemaster Treble Booster clone

 VOX 

$150.00 USD

 TREBLE BOOSTER ·  

Before the Tube Screamer if you wanted to boost a dark amp 

like a JTM45 or dark PLEXI you went for a Rangemaster Treble 

Booster and it was your always on pedal, Brian May, Page 

and Tony Iommi all had one. The layout is boost and on this 

modern take you get a toggle to beef up the lows. 

     CONCLUSION __

The price is fair and it does its thing. That said the Siteck Germanium booster takes the whole thing with a preamp 

in it takes it to different level that adds some serious balz. 

It is however $180.00 USD. As for me I am leaning into 

the $135.00 USD Tone City Green Tube a TS10 Tube 

Screamer voiced to get a SRV sound. 

 

PREAMP- STRYMON La Brea ___NEW___ preamp from an Echoplex Tape Delay

strymon

$200.00 USD

LA BREA · 

It is not one but 2 preamps from a Echoplex Tape Delay. 

You can run it to hit the faux tape sound to get a tape 

saturation sound (no it does not include a delay circuit, 

for that you need the Strymon Deco) It is really 

a booster.

   CONCLUSION __

If you think it does not fill a hole missing on your 

board you are not alone. I find a few other pres 

pulled from old film cameras much more useful 

in adding a fatter and/or bite to even my clean 

sound. Those can even be an always on pedal. 

Always on with this is a non-starter. 

 

OVERDRIVE- THIMBLE WASP FX Black & Blue ___NEW ___ a high gain original ???

THIMBLE WASP EFFECTS

 Black & Blue      

$200.00 USD

Not a lot of info about this Columbus Ohio brand or this product. 

This appears to be their only Overdrive pedal? 

It is a high gain unit. Likely a OpAmp with clipping diodes circuit 

in the vein of a BOSS DS-1?

The layout is Bass, Mids, Treble, Gain and Volume. It has both a boost and footswitch to trigger it on. There is a toggle on the 

side without any info why? My best guess that it flushes 

the toilet on the top floor.

CONCLUSION __

I will assume their claim it is their original take on something 

to fit the genre. That said it sounds at minimum similar to 

a lot of what's out there. I feel there are a lot of high gain OD's/Distortion boxes & even some Fuzz pedals that could 

take it on and at worse be a tie for around $50.00 USD.

The knobs lighting up is needless expense, WTF. 

That said I like it. It has personality.

The company is new and I had a quick listen to their 

other pedals that are indeed worth a deep dive & a Post.

MADE IN CHINA __

 MADE IN CHINA    

BOOSTER- SITECK Vixen Germanium Booster... Impressive!!!

$180.00 USD

Siteck Vixen  

 Germanium Booster  

The unit use vintage NOS parts, most notably germanium 

transistors. The layout is Level, Range/Gain and a toggle 

gives you 2 clipping variations. It can do a Rangemaster 

thing or give you boost over the mids and bass. 

 

CONCLUSION __

It is very full and harmonically rich with 

some serious breadth yet it has a 

biting attack. Impressive.  

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___ANIMALS PEDALS ___ALL THE DIRT PEDALS ___ALL THE SURPRISES

$135.00 USD

 ANIMALS PEDALS   

This is all about the Animals Pedals Surfing Polar Bear.  

A Bass Overdrive? BIG but! It was picked by Phil X 

in a blindfold test as the best guitar Overdrive. 

  __  (I had Peter the Polar Bear re-post the shootout  video)  😇__

The pedal is yet another by Bjorn Juhl who 

has designed most of the Mad Professor  

pedals including the pricy, pricy $375

hand mades.

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                         My personal favorite is the $135.00 USD 

Animals Pedals Major OD ...a MIAB

...designed by Mark Ahifs of Skeddy Pedals .

BOOSTER- GREUTER AUDIO Charisma ___SNEAK PEAK ___

GREUTER AUDIO  

Charisma 

This is a heavily modified Rangemaster Treble booster 

pushing it more into half low gain Fuzz and half OD. 

It uses vintage NOS parts and has both Germanium 

and Silicon Transistors. 

··· 

$340.00 USD

OVERDRIVE- RAVENSTONE Apollo V.2___NEW___hybrid/Tube Screamer boosts Dumble

$215.00 USD

RAVENSTONE 

APOLLO   

Another puzzle or two. Ravenstone have what  appears to 

be a Tube Screamer morphed into a Dumble in one pedal. 

The Hermida Zen-Drive is a heavily modified Tube Screamer, 

lol. if one could remove the extras that hid the roots you 

would have both to use separately or some what separate 

in the same pedal.  

    CONCLUSION __

Well not only have Ravenstone come up with 

an interesting twist MOSKY have cloned it 

with their $50.00 USD Helios, LOL.