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New CHK CHK BOOMS!

There are 7 of this design. They will come in all flavors (basic, joy button and loop mute). These are especially grungy. I got this cool old-lady’s-wrinkly-hand-clearcoat thing going on them which you can kind of tell in the gif. But not really. It's very textured and looks like some real hand made shit.

They all have different patterns of overspray on them. They mostly look like this but some have more of one color than the other. Which one will you get?

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Boosters should just raise the volume of your signal. Simply put: make it louder. As long as there's headroom available, the volume boost will be just that, more loudness. No headroom and you enter distortion.

It can be a memorable "aha" moment (it was for me) when you discover the relation there is between the cleanness of your amp and the output volume of your distortion pedals. Try a fuzz pedal into an already overdriven amp and half the range of the level knob becomes useless, you'll hardly get it any louder; set the amp clean and try again… So don't discard incorporating your amp's knob into your tweaking when experimenting and searching for sounds.

Besides the so-called clean boosts there's also treble boosters, and boosters with EQ options (the Xotic RC booster is a good example) which can help you achieve different kinds of overdrive and grit, by pushing your amp (or pedals) only in certain frequencies.

The way a booster pedal should be

Of the single-knob boosters available on the market there's only one I know that can not only boost your signal but also attenuate it, doubling the pedal's functionality: the Gravinton boost from Field Effects by Resonant Electronic. 

Although only a bit more than half of the knob is available actually for boosting, the range is smooth and feels very natural. The Graviton also offers you a better version of your sound at unity gain (I believe that's due to high input impedance, which rescues a part of your guitar's signal that usually gets lost — I learned that by building Jack Orman's Mosfet Booster.)

Transparent, with the ability to both boost and cut… Here's a short clip for illustration:

The new Blowing Up has mercy

The booster Brooklyn-based Ohnoho introduced in 2010 recently got updated. A meant to be weapon of destruction is now an extremely versatile tool. The single gain knob has been replaced by a high/low switch and a master volume knob. It will make stuff blowing up the same as deliver sweet grit.

The new Blowing Up sounds like this:

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