Why You NEED a Clean Boost Guitar Pedal

Checking out the new Walrus Audio Emissary parallel boost pedal and also talking about why you might want to add a clean boost pedal into your signal chain.

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A little about me:

Sean Daniel is a man. A man of simple needs and desires. And the one desire, no, the one NEED, that stands above all is to spread the challenges, joy and intellectual stimulus of music to people of Earth and beyond.
Born on the mean streets of upper middle class suburban Chicago, Sean learned the ways of the world through the dizzying heights of success to the lonesome depths of failure and emerged with the promise of a better tomorrow reflecting in his eyes and fiery passion in his belly.
He plays and teaches guitar on his YouTube channel where he regularly releases original music and projects to the adulation of legions of fans, who often compare him to Chris Pratt and one time Ryan Reynolds. He’s currently in the market for a nice leather jacket.
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[rayross]

Thanks Sean, Dr.Seuss might say that is the best lean, mean, clean boost machine, that I have ever seen, played with a Strat that's green.

[sambac]

What you need to counter cable capacitance is a buffer.

[SuperKillbill]

I use it towards the end before I use my delay, sounds are so warmer and lush !!

[benjamenanderson]

Thanks Sean, you always make sense of the world.

[oleo]

"Um, you better also have clean underwear, son." - your mom. Good video.

[niptodstan]

When I was gigging in the 70/80’s I used Marshall’s with a Les Paul custom and an MXR Micro amp pedal. It was great for solos and just boosting. They’re great when you don’t want a fuzzy boost.

[fenderbrad]

Single coil pick ups are where the tone lives, some times I boost, sometimes I don’t, depends one what tone you are going for. That pedal seems to have a lot of noise compared to the boost pedals I have? Maybe it’s the amp?

[laj]

I play a Strat through a Vintage Sound, Deluxe Reverb clone. I use a TC Electronics Spark. The tone sounds so crisp and full in all pickup selections that I leave it on all of the time. It is a 20db boost, but I set the volume at only 1/4 of the way up, which is just a smidge above the non-boost volume. Can't live without the boost it sounds that good. Check out the Spark compared to other boost pedals on YouTube.

[leebraly]

The boost pedal sounded very good. Something to think about. Thanks for sharing.

[xMasterxRazorx]

Made the guitar unpleasantly bright, IMO. I prefer the sound with the boost off. I think Strats benefit most from a low mid boost, like no higher than 600 or 700Hz. That's why I think they sound so good with Klons and Tubescreamers.

[Seltaeb_]

Tempted to go out and buy this rn.
but at the end of the day I'm just out of practice, and this won't change that XD
Nice playing, Sean!

[NotUsingThisAccount]

Sounds quite nice, I like the range of tone you can get with that pedal, creates some nice textures. I use an MXR MC402 boost/Overdrive for my clean boost but it doesn't have much range, just up the decibel level!

[ronlight]

Oh, Sean, where to start? This is your conscience speaking. Numero uno is the fact that of the 24 most recent uploads from YouTube channels to which I subscribe, nine of them (right now) are from reviewers (like you) promoting the new Audio Emissary pedal! Now, me and YouTube are gonna have to have a serious sit-down about this situation. But beyond that, don't you think an ethic of full-disclosure might dictate your divulging the sponsorship relationship you have around the presentation of the Walrus pedal? Personally, I think you might be overselling the value of a boost and this pedal in particular, but hey, maybe that's just me. But evoking Brian May, that he used just a simple boost pedal, to me seems a bit glib and rather a gloss of the historical facts. A lot of the best known blues rock guitarists from the '60s-'70s employed a boost specifically because they were playing Vox AC-30 amps that really came alive when pushed into distortion with certain frequencies. This required a very specific kind of pedal, one that boosted just the the right highs to excite the Vox. May used his own modified version of the Dallas Rangemaster (as used by Clapton), but these treble boosters are not the same as today's one-size-fits-all boost pedals. I'm not hatin', man, but I know you're capable of far more careful discourse than I see in this video.

[heyjarrod]

Pretty cool, just learning a bit more about this more recently. First question I had was, wouldn’t just turning up the amp boost the signal the same as a boost pedal? I’m sure there’s more to it, but seems like the same thing, getting dbs from somewhere.

[huntergale]

I totally agree with this video, even with my humbuckers my echoplex brings out so much more tone from them

[LeftHandedGuitarist]

A question about your use of the neck pickup (before engaging the booster): my Strats all sound incredibly thick and muddy when using it, how come yours is so bright and twangy? Do you have the treble setting way up on your amp?

[jakegerry]

I bought a g&l asat and i am looking for a pedal like this. Thanks so much. Looking foward to buying this

[andrewdenine]

A decent compressor does this great also my strat I use a emg 85 bridge and a sa in the neck no middle pickup. That guitar is a jem I got lucky

[DSpeir-pitm]

Cool gadget Sean . Thanks' for the info .

[_adg_]

Come on ! don't tell me you bought that house and all that gear just with clean money !?