BOOST- NUX Lacerate Boost... 7 years old & still selling ...Why? :-)

NUX

LACERATE  FET BOOST 

Is this meant to be a clean boost? A just make it louder pedal, lol. No one wacks out $70 for that! The fact is ALL boosts cause some distortion. In something with this little we politely call it coloration. In this case we get FET OpAmp to do the job. FET transistors operate like a tube and sound very similar. The better OpAmps have a lot of headroom but too much and the FET will not distort and sound tube-ish. Too little and the harmonic detail will be smeared. Bafflegab for muddy, lol. 

Any more than 20dB of boost and you are into low gain OD territory. 

This will push 35dB if you hold down the footswitch a moment to bring 

it into OD-land. This pedal has a charge pump so it boosts a 9v adapter up to 18v for better headroom.

            CONCLUSION __ 

The pedal is designed to allow it to be as transparent as it gets. It is like like a tank 

of air used at the hospital for those with respiratory problems. I prefer helium, I want

my balloon to soar. For this job I use a Caline Pure Sky. A very accurate clone of the 

Version 1 Timmy. The V.1 had the lowest gain. So not pushed you get dead clean but 

with a lot of harmonic sparkle and a hint of compression that evens out the whole 

sound. There are many Boosts or OD's used for boost. All do it with different 

colorations or even a tad of gain/dirt. There is no ...one size fits all.