Jun 25, 2012 12:52 PM
Is there a way to simulate a treble booster pedal on the POD HD300?
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Many guitarists with Marshall and Vox amps use a treble booster to enhance their tone. Is there a way to do this on the POD HD series, since the pedals do not include a treble booster?
Thanks in advance!
Bob
You should be able to approximate something using an EQ before the amp with a heavy boost of the frequencies around 1-2K. From what I understand there was a an element of fuzz in there also so there may be a bit more to it than that. There is a very technical description of the classic rangemaster treble booster here that may give some hints --> http://www.geofex.com/Article_Folders/Rangemaster/atboost.pdf
A parametric set with frequency around 60-75%, might get you somewhere. There is a strong element of fuzz in the tone also so you could try combining it with one of the fuzz distortion effects, using the mix and drive controls to give a light fuzz.
I will try your suggestions, however, on the POD HD300, you can't have both an EQ and fuzz, as they are both in FX1.
Meh! Yeah, good point. Sorry.
You could use the "Q Filter". There's also a vst emulation of the Dallas Rangemaster called "Rangebastard"
https://sites.google.com/site/distorque/home/vsts/rangebastard
I've tried that with Reaper and I'm still in the testing phase. At the moment the sound I get is similar but too weak. Maybe there is a "magic" setting with the POD but for now I get better results with the "Q Filter" and the Color Drive, trying to emulate the sound of the Rangemaster. If you prefer a lighter boost, you could also use the Boost Comp and Blue Comp Treb.
Still need to find a combo that are not both in FX1.
Boost Comp may work. I'll have to give it a go when I'm able to. (working too much to play as of now)
Use the focus EQ before the amp and miximize the output of the focus EQ. Also set the input impedence to very low 32 or 22 as most treble booster had low impdence. regardin the setting for the Focuse eq try the Low at center and the high full at 100. You want to cut the bass and use the EQ as a high pass filter while boosting the output.
Where is focus EQ on a POD HD300? I only see parametric & 4-band shift EQs in FX1.
I'm sorry I forgot it doesn't have it. Instead you can try the Parametric EQ and the only thing you do is Cut the low by about 6db (it' probably a shelve but not sure what the center frequency is (thanks to the simple design it's a percent) then blast the gain on the PQ. With the low impedence setting that will give a decent treble booster simulation as most of them employed High Pass filters (cut the bass) and boost the rest. I;m not sure what other eqs you have in there but some Terble booster had a high pass starting at 1khz so you can cut that much of the bass and some of the low mid or try to cut anywhere begining with a 1Khz down. for now all I can think of the P EQ. It would be nice if the PEQ gives the option of chosing the low frequency then you can experiment more with other frequencies.
i tried the Boost Comp with Comp at zero, Low at 23%, treble at 50%, output 100% and it sounds very much like a treble booster (pushing a park bright channel with full gain)
Thanks. I haven't been able to try it yet, but I'm confident I'll be satisfied with the results.
What setting did you use for Drive on Boost Comp? That's the only thing you didn't specify. Thanks!
I had the drive at 53% and I have some hot single coils but definitely no where near humbuckers. One thing to keep in mind is that treble boosters where mainly used because the early british amps were somewhat dark and bassy specifically Marshalls. So playing a marshall into 4x12 some players would set the BASS controll on the amp to Zero (Tony Iommi from black Sabbath etc. who also used treble boosters). Richie Blackmore (Deep Purple) also used treble boosters, but later on moved to overdrives...
the nice thing about using treble boosters is you retain so much dynamic that when you lower the guitar volume control, the sound cleans up really nice and vice versa. the Boost Comp in the HD series is very good for this kind of thing. I like to use it with compression at zero to retain the dynamic.
That makes perfect sense. I figured compression would be zero to run as a treble boost, just wasn't sure about drive. I'll probably run Drive at 50%, since I usually play the Les Paul with humbuckers. Love that you can clean it up by turning down volume. Thanks again!
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