It goes by many names, comes in many flavors and they’re all good.Unfortunately, finding that sweet spot isn’t so easy with vintage pedals. You need to deal with noise, signal loss, tones that can change with battery life and even the temperature on stage. Some ofthose old Germanium-powered effects are more sensitive than a train-carof nitro.

Tech21’s all-analog circuitry squeezes righteous, vintage tones out ofevery Boost Series pedal with modern dependability. Designed and builtfrom the ground up utilizing the best individually-selected,hand-biased discreet components, each unit delivers optimizedperformance with studio-quiet operation. And we call them Boost pedalsfor a reason. Alongside a wealth of hot driven tones, there is apowerful boost function that delivers up to an incredible 21dB of cleanboost, which can be used independently from the effect. It is a truepost-boost, punching up the tone you dialed in, not smothering it inunwanted distortion. From the high-impedance input to the sweepablelow-pass filter in the tone control, your tone willbe open and controllable in every setting.

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Puttingan overdrive pedal in front of a hard-pushed amp has been the secretweapon for generations of guitarists wanting to punch up the midrangeand add sustain. The Boost Overdrive is packed with voluminous amountsof screamin’ tone. Just hit the Boost switch to go bigger and badder.The unique SPARKLE control adds upper harmonics for an open, snappysound.