Ive owned my boost for years with no problem, I try with different guitar and get distortion now, is there a boost that can give good boost with no kind of overdrive?

The new guitar may have more output. Try turning the volume down on either the guitar to boost pedal.

thanks anyway

Most people use a boost pedal to get overdrive. If you want clean sound but louder, increase your master volume level. Or, if it's maxed out already, get a higher wattage amp.

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The Xotic RC Booster serves a purpose like this for many including myself.

Whether you get overdrive or not will depend on your amp settings, but the pedal itself is incredibly transparent.

Hmm thanks might check it out, if you guys want a better sound out of your gear then i suggest using thicker gauge strings

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Yes, the Rockett Lemon Aid preamp can give you clean, treble boost and an overdriven boost, all three modes sound great.

The Xotic RC Booster is a really great pedal. I used to own one, I foolishly sold it. Rather than buy another RC Booster I tried a friends Mooer Pure Boost and I like it just as much as the RC Booster and it's half the price. The Mooer Pure Boost is very transparent. I didn't buy mine from cheaperpedals, but I've bought a lot of pedals from cheaperpedals and I recommend buying from him (he's a good guy with excellent customer service.) Mooer Pure Boost | CheaperPedals.com

Mooer stuff is shockingly good. I have an Eleclady and it's an outstanding flanger. The only downside is that they all require an external PSU - wish 9v operation were available but there you go...

That may or may not work - it depends on what sound you are chasing.

Maybe if you chasing a drop tuned death metal guitar sound - sure. Or if you want a really tight sounds country & western acoustic guitar - sure.

But if you want the bendy spank of a stratocaster, maybe you will get a better sound with lighter gauge strings.

Some of the greatest guitar players created their famous tones with ultra light strings ... it all depends on what you want to hear.

It also depends on what you are attacking the strings with ... steel is highly elastic (in the physics sense), and you can put excessive energy into a string (even break it or violently detune it) if you use the wrong combination of force and materials.

For example, on a bass guitar which has heavy strings, I love to use a very heavy, rigid pick - it requires more energy to get them excited. But for lead guitar solos, I like to use light strings (10/46) with a thin pick so I can get delicate phrasing and wild bends, and maintain control and tone.

Guitar players often end up talking at cross purposes, because there are so many different types of guitar tone and style. Try everything and find out works for you. I hear players using heavy strings just to be macho, and it sounds like **** to me ... it hampers their playing style, and together with a heavy pick and aggressive playing style, it can be like poking your ears out with a sharp stick.

never got into what solo i couldnt play on big strings, a boost pedal with mode selection sounds interesting, like that word transparent though am looking for that clean boost plus sound and phuck mooer bumpkin

Why don't you like Mooer?

Edit to add: It's fine if you don't want to talk about.

I like to use my Diamond compressor as a clean boost ... it's one pedal I never want to switch off. And if you are struggling with your amp going into overdrive then some compression might help.

But back to the original problem ... you changed to a hotter guitar and it's overdriving when you don't want it to ... the last thing you need is more boost. You have a volume knob on that guitar? Or try a volume pedal - some you can set with a minimum, so you can go from clean to overdrive (depending on your amp settings).

But seriously - if you want clean sounds, and are struggling with avoiding distortion, then "clean" boosts on the input side are NOT what you want.

I use a Mesa Tone Burst boost to make the standard clean sound louder and bigger for solos on my Deluxe Reverb, and use a seperate OD pedal for dirtier stuff.

Klon.

lets just say one of the worst reverbs i ever heard was thanks to mooer haha, thanks for input as i search for my pick of destiny

Couldn't you utilize your FX loop to give you a boost? I dont have too much experience with this but I have noticed with my empress ParaEQ, I can change the volume dramatically. It has a boost feature controlled by foot switch and you can also adjust the input gain on it. amazing pedal

Klon in effects loop?

If you want it mainly clean with controllable sustain "hair, edge, slight distortion" on the tone, the RC Booster would be my recommendation. If you want it absolutely clean, no distortion, just boost, I would recommend a Boss EQ with the volume dialed up or an EP Boost set for the louder volume. The Boss would be neutral, the EP gives you a bit of analog warmth but still clean.

The Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster provides 25dB of dead clean boost, and you can even switch in a circuit that lowers the resonant peak of single coil pickups making them sound more like humbuckers.

Kiwi, the OP never revealed his original boost pedal, he only said he now gets distortion. We have no idea if he was using a "Gain" setting on his original boost pedal.

RC Booster and Mooer have Volume and Gain plus Bass and Treble. In my experience you have the potential to do a massive amount of pure goodness to any guitar while only using Volume, Bass and Treble. I always keep the Gain dialed all the way down but turning up the Gain on both pedals gives very desirable results if you so wish. I don't use the Gain on a boost pedal because I have other pedals for crunch and distortion. I use a boost pedal for tone shaping only.

I've run everything from single coil Strats to my Ric to Humbuckers in many guitars using only the Volume, Bass and Treble. You can tone shape with the Volume knob and not overdrive an amp into distortion.

Edit to add: I saw the post above this one and I've heard really good things about the Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster.

Interesting. I was going to suggest the EP booster which I love. I'll need to check out the RC...

The EP is great! But to me it's far less transparent and I use mine as more of a thickener/sweetener especially on single coils.

+1 Your description of what you use your RC Booster for is better than my description.

Quite frankly, unless a guitarist is going for that old thin Strat plinky thing by all means run your Strat through an RC Booster or Mooer Pure Boost (or others). If you want to give your Strat some balls and musicality, give it a shot.

I wonder if Eric Clapton would have needed his Strat mod if he'd had an RC Booster at the time.

No argument on mooer's digital pedals, some of them are just bad sounding but the analog pedals they make are surprisingly good.

When I was shopping for a boost pedal I tried a bunch including some very expensive boutique pedals, the one that came on top was the Rockett but the second best sounding of them all was the Pure Boost by Mooer, I liked it even better than the Xotic pedal it copies which I tried side by side, I don't know how they do it but mooer's analog pedals are great, the small size is a big plus if you want to travel light.

Yeah, that's fair - I love the EP but I wouldn't call it transparent.

+1 for the love of the Elec Lady. I actually wish it had a boost, it's more of something I use for solos than standard playing. There's lots of great Mooer kit - my other guitar player is using the Bitcrusher pedal for wacky aliasing noises.

However I do run mine on 9V! It's the old Elec Mistress that requires 24V, I thought?

Back to OP -boost pedals vary a lot. I don't use mine for clean, they're for blowing up my amp. My Super Hard On is fantastic for this - a literal must own, to me. But lots of things work well - the Joyo American Dream works as a boost, especially into a very scooped sounding amp.

I run most of my pedals to do some sort of gain stage changing as well as FX. My delay has a boost, my wah has gain, my overdrive and fuzz all have a volume kick. How else do you go from foreground to background?

i had an LPB1 (good for strats teles etc.) which is now sold and no room on my board for a boost now, though still looking for a deal on one id just put it on side