LPB-1 : Good Boost with only little coloring

12 years ago

I have purchased this booster because I only needed a volume boost for soloing purposes.

1. Setup:

Booster after overdrive and distortion.

-> Booster set to 10 'clock and increases the volume of the overdrive without coloring the tone too much. The dist unfortunately didn't increase in volume. The LPB only colored the tone in a very twangy way.

2. Setup:

Booster to increase Volume of plain guitar signal using tubeamp overdrive.

-> increases volume but still colors the tone in a very brassy manner. Has a lot of attack but too much trebel.

3. Setup

Booster before overdrive and dist pedals

-> booster increases volume for all pedals an colors tone in a very subtile manner.

Conclusion:

If you (like me) don't have 100 bucks to spare on a line booster like the MXR line driver the LPB is a good option. You just have to find the pedals sweetspot to keep the tone coloring to a minimum.

Image Electro Harmonix LPB-1

Technical Data

  • Manufactured by Electro Harmonix
  • Released in 2006
  • Average price : $54
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