Analog Man Beano Boost

Very easy to use it. i ordered it with the mini toggle switch with 3 positions so you can choose a middle axed in the treble,the mediums,or the bass
there is just one volume know which determines the amount of gain

here is my setup ibanez js1000 with paf pro and paf fred into a BJF Dyna red distorsion >>> Analog man beano boost >>> memory man delay deluxe into a all tubes amp Laney VC30 ( 3 12AX7, 4 EL84 ) 1x12 which is clearly a amp inspired by the Vox AC30
so , from the moment you activate the pedal , you can't desactivate it !! it's a pedal which is essential from the moment you tasted it . You can really get THE Jimmy Page sound combined with a fuzz box or an overdrive.The pedal gives more brightness and more gain in an incredible way.more gain, more organic sound, more brightness, more definition, in short , more of all.i forgot to say that you can really get an easy feedback with it :) !!
So, i can tell you that tis pedal always sounds great.one more thing which is amazing is the fact that this pedal doesn't produce any noise , as Mike of analogman says in the description of the pedal ( i use only high quality proco cables , maybe it helps the fact )
i 'll just add that you can get an amazing effect combined with a warm analog delay like the memory man deluxe,so you'll get a sound with is very close of the sond Dazed and confused ( led zeppelin ) when jimmy page activates his echoplex delay

this pedal has a very light weight and is well-built.i didn't use it yet on a gig but i'm sure that the beano boost will fulfill its function.

Mike from analogman is a very cool personn , who replied to the mail VERY VERY VERY quickly , so you can be sure that you'll talk with a very qualified personn

i play rock/bluesrock/hardrock music, i love pink floyd , led zeppelin and all the bands from the late 60's
if it were stolen, i'm sure that i'll buy it again, i really love all about this treble booster and i haven't got any defects to be reproached.

Very simple to use just turn the knob up for more volume boost. There is also a push pull pot for either treble boost only or a full range boost whatever YOUR chioce may be. This is what you need especially if you use both single coil guitars and humbucker equipped guitars.

I am using both humbucker and single coil equipped guitars. I use several amps, Budda SD30, 69 Marshall 50 watter and Fender twin. The great thing is that it has true bypass switching which works great, your tone doesn't suffer just by plugging into the effect. The boost not only ads a big boost but also adds some CRUNCH. The treble boost adds a nice brightening to the sound and it just sustains like crazy through a well overdriven amp, that is how it works best.If your a lead player looking for a boost to get your solos heard this will do the trick.I found the treble boost to really cut through but it's not to trebly. With a tele it's a bit bright but that's what the full range boost is for it really makes single coil pickups fatter and makes them sing.When the boost is on it also helps your playing in a big way. When you are soloing and the notes are sustaining you just feel like you're working with the guitar and amp and it's not fighting you. There is some noise with it up full blast but your just gonna have some noise when your boosting like this.

Very well made pedal with GREAT workmanship. Analogmans reliability for his pedals are well known!!

When I was looking for a booster I had four different pedals in mind. I e-mailed Mike and within one hour he had responded with dead on honesty of my choices and what he thought would work best and he was right on! He wants his customers to be happy and is very patient and helpful.

I play modern rock and classic rock. This is not just for the vintage player at all. This booster is great for ALL kinds of music. It is especially helpful at brightening up British type amps. Humbucker guitars with Vox amps or Marshalls will just LOVE it. It also sounds great in the FULL range boost mode with Fender guitars and amps!! Very well designed pedal for lots of players and situations. I would definately get another if something happened to this. This has just made my playing more enjoyable. I almost forgot to mention drop d tuning sounds even better with this pedal.

It doesn't get any easier than this! The amount of treble boost is determined by a single knob, with a push/pull option switching the unit to full boost mode.

I use a Les Paul Standard into the Beano Boost, then into the normal channel on a Vox AC30tbx. The treble boost pushes the normally "dark" amplifier into the most inspiring overdrive I've ever had! What's more, when I switch to my Tele, I simply pull the knob up to activate full boost. Of course the treble boost mode is equally suited to single coils too, you just have to be carefull with your tone control. If you're using a British amp, this is the missing link to all those tones you were dreaming about when you bought the amp, I promise!

Mine's only a few weeks old, but it looks to be almost indestructable. The work inside the pedal is excellent too, neat and tidy. Battery drain is minimal. It's replaced my Z Vex 2 in 1 Super Duper in a heartbeat. Mike at Analog.man has a great reputation for building reliable stuff.

I've had every mail answered within a day or two, first class service and knowledgable advice. I wish every pedal manufacturing specialist instilled me with the same confidence as Analog.man.

This pedal has to be heard to be believed. It does exactly the job I needed, brightening my tone and adding spit and sizzle to my signal. If, like me, you find clean boosts to be sterile, then try a Beano Boost and you will not be disappointed. It offers excellent value, over $100 cheaper than the Keeley Java Boost. For true vintage and retro tones ranging from Jimmy Page to Brian May and Ritchie Blackmore to Rory Gallagher, this is the mojo. Do your Vox or Marshall a favour, give it some Beano!

This device is pretty easy to get a good sound out of if you're going for a crunchy sound. You must use a tube amp that you can crank a bit. The manual is short but informative.

I use this effect with a Clapton Strat, Vox Wah and various fuzzes into a Fender Pro Jr. It can get noisy here and there but nothing anyone couldn't deal with. I have a few different setups and I don't use this pedal all the time but when I do, it does the trick. I can get a real nice searing blues tone out of it.

I've had it a few months and never had a problem with it. I don't use it enough to need a backup.

Analog Mike was very helpful. When I first got it, I didn't understand the nature of the thing. You need to get your amp cranked so it's breaking up a little to get it to work right. And you must have a tube amp. It sounds great with the Pro Jr. 'cause it's only 15 watts so you can turn it up without going deaf. Unfortunately, I have to mike it up at gigs or it can't be heard.

I play a little bit of everything and this effect doesn't fit everything I do. But for the right music, it sounds fantastic. If it were stolen, I probably wouldn't bother getting another one just 'cause I don't use it all the time. The sound it gets is really useable. It gets a really good crunch out of my guitar and amp.

A true bypass on/off switch and a volume knob - pretty basic. However, the volume knob is a pull up affair which allows 2 subtly different voicings. One is the traditional Dallas Rangemaster treble boost (best suited for guitars with humbucking pickups) and the other is a more full range boost for guitars with single coils. At about 9:00 o'clock the volume of the effect matches the unaffected signal - after that, anything goes - this can get really loud and gives the front end of your amp a battering! Nice!

I'm using a Fender Squier Silver Series Stratocaster loaded with a set of Kinman blues pickups through a Peavey Classic 20 all valve amp. So things are usually running pretty warm to start with in this setup. This pedal is like having another gain stage in your amp. For rhythm work it gives you lovely crunchy distortion with astonishing chord definition. You can definitely hear the likes of Brian May and Rory Gallagher in this pedal. For lead work it gives you sustain 'til next Tuesday and wonderful controlled feedback. But this is not a total 'anarchy' pedal - nor do I think it is intended as such. It gives you a lovely edge that is transparent enough for your original setup to not get lost in the overbearing personality of some mega overdrive/distortion pedal. It's always musical in its tones whatever setup you have or whatever setting you use on the pedal. Even using the treble boost voicing on a single coil guitar sounds very good I think - both live and definitely in a recording situation. It's nice and quiet too given that it uses a germanium transistor. People will ask you how you 'got that sound' when you come off stage...

I looked inside this pedal and it's extremely well made - hand wired at that! It's simplicity and sturdiness means I have no hesitation playing without a backup. The battery lasts for hundreds of hours!

Analog Mike seems like a thumbs up guy. He replies promptly to emails no matter how trivial and stupid your questions might be. When you deal with Analogman you're treated like a rock star! Well, I have been, anyway...

I play 60s British freakbeat stuff like the Yardbirds, The Who, Pretty Things and I've been either pretty disillusioned or disgusted with all the woolly 'fuzzboxes' I've tried so I needed a 'mojo' for maximum power during solos and general sonic mayhem. This is pretty good considering it's not specifically suited to the style of music I'm playing. I hear it now comes with a third 'bass' setting which would be cool! If anything happened to this pedal I'd just have to get me another one....

It is very straight forward. One control/boost knob. Push down for treble setting, pull up for full range boost. The only reason I didn't give it a 10 is that it took a little time to figure out how to balance my volume through various amp/pedal settings. But even that is pretty simple once you've played around a bit. Or I guess the simplest setup of all is just run it straight into your loud, overdriven amp for a great raw sound. But I like a little more versatility and combined with the right pedal, this unit can sound awesome at lower "bedroom" volumes as well.

My setup is-61 Gibson SG reissue(57 humbuckers)>Fulltone Deluxe Clyde wah>Beano boost>Tonebone classic distortion>Sib echodrive>Vox AC15 TBX(blue alnico speaker). I'll start off by saying that I've always been a huge fan of the early 70's British guitar sound (Marc Bolan, Mick Ronson, Brian May, Jimmy Page, etc.) This pedal just drips with that sound at the right settings. Apparently, Brian May uses a treble booster and has his amps at full volume. I use the Tonebone classic (a very transparent overdrive/distortion) to get an overdrive similar to having my amp cranked wide open, but at much more lower volume. Thus using my distortion pedal as the much ballsier overdrive channel my Vox never had. Then I add the Beano boost for that extra little push of rich, searing British crunch. It's not a major change, just a really good tweak. You do lose a little low end but what you'll gain in bite, cut through,crunch and sustain is so damn cool sounding it doesn't really matter. Besides, the Beano is true bypass so your oringinal sound is always there for you. The Beano also sounds great for slightly beefing up your clean setting. It's perfect with my Vox in that it boosts the treble but maintains, even enhances all that lush creaminess that Vox amps are famous for. You'll want to back off the guitar volume when using this unit as a clean boost (It gets a little to much bite-almost an ouch). For me, guitar volume is the key to using this pedal in a chain. By setting my guitar volume at about 6.5, I can use the Beano at almost any level with any combination of pedal/amp settings and keep compatible volumes throughout. Then when I want a lead boost in volume, I crank my guitar wide open and the Beano goes into blister mode. It's a weird dynamic but it works well and makes a lot of sense if you want a variety tones at consistant volume levels and it puts all the control at your fingertips.
The Beano is also very quiet (I recommend batteries over AC adpt.) and seems to be very compatible with my other pedals. If your playing humbuckers into a Vox, the Beano is like sauce for your setup. Mmmn, Mmmn, good.

Haven't had it long enough.

Mike's great. I had purchased another pedal from him that didn't work out (through no fault of the pedal, it just wasn't the right one for my setup) and he couldn't have been cooler about the whole thing. He's very good about returning emails promptley (he returned several of mine before I even bought anything)and he seems like a standup guy to do business with. I'm confident that if I have a problem with one of his products he'll deal with it in a timely fashion.

I play a little of everything except jazz, classical. This pedal will get tons of use from me. It does the classic rock thing but sounds geat for punk and metal as well. The enhancement of my Vox clean sounds are really tasty, too. If lost or stolen, I'd definetly by another. As far as price goes, the Beano is very competitive with similar units, if not the most reasonable.

Very easy, straightforward. One choice for "fuller range" or more treble-only boost, and a dial for how much boost you want - easy and intuitive.

It does not get any better than this - especially for driving tube amps like the Marshall TSL 602 combo I'm using. With a Fender SRV Strat, the Beano, and the Marshall - the sound is more open, "present" even at lower volumes.

Extremely well built. I asked for the Boss-style power-adapter input for $10 additional for use on a pedalboard. I opened-up the pedal to ensure I understood the polarity (it's like almost every pedal out there). What I saw inside was bombproof, quality construction.

Helpful, prompt feedback and a willingness to even answer and occasional dumb question.

If you've got all the gee-whiz other-worldly sound effects you could ever want, and you've decided to focus on real, strong, solid sound-quality - tone - you've gotta try this. If you have an all-tube amp, buy this pedal first - and then go out and get the mega-distorto-crunch-blaster. This box pulls the solid sound out of the cabinet.

Its simple. One knob which is a push pull pot. Use this as the first effect in your chain. Go from your guitar to this pedal, and then any others. Its true bypass and the most useful pedal i have bought so you can leave it in your chain forever. It can be a little confusing cause it is so powerful and you'll want to turn it up high but trust me it can do a lot with the knob barely turned up.

I'm using an Ibanez Jem, Ibanez Universe, and Ibanez J-Custom. The amps i use are a Fender 2/12 Deville, Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, and Mesa Boogie Mark IV. The sound quality on this is great. I have used it into a TS_808, Sun Face, Boss OD-1, Octavia... The list just goes on and on. The above are just bonus points because what its supposed to do is make your amp sound better with more treble and this is really the case with my Ibanez Universe. 7 string pickups are so muddy, so i treble boost. The Ibanez jem single coil is so weak! So i use the full boost with the pot pulled out on the pedal to get this effect and its great!

Analog Mike made it so most people who have owned other pedals that he has made will probly not even read what i am typing right now because his stuff is tight!

He wrote me back from way way back before i even bought a single pedal. What other pedal maker can i say that about? The list is very short, let me tell you! He is helpful and i have no doubt if one of my pedals broke he'd help me out.

I went into this thinking it would be a pedal that i would rarely use when i had a guitar with weak pickups and i needed to overdrive my amps's preamp and get more crunch and distortion but it turned out to be a pedal that stays in my chain. I use it all the time now for a brighter sound, balancing weak pickups, boosting my overdrive pedals for solo work... its so useful!

The beano has one control which i believe is the boost control but it has 2 uses: pull up for more treble boost and pull down for the classic texas ranger/bluesbreaker sound. No one can get wrong with that.

I used it with my les paul standard and my marshall DSL 401. This pedal sounds great with a british made amp which is relatively dark sounding and humbuckers. I first used it directly with clean tone and it has a nice break-up. Its like cranking yur amp even at low volumes. Of course it adds treble on it but not in the shrieking way but it makes your guitar meatier with the harmonics it adds to it. It is quiet. Then i ran it through a fulltone custom fulldrive with beano after it and i get satisfying results. It gives the fulltone a nice push buy making it a little bright. I use it with the flat mids and the vintage mode. I didnt want to use it with the comp cut because by itself its bright already. can instantly dial the sounds of early led zep and of course the bluesbreaker's sound without sweat at all. When the booster is up you can the brian may sounds as well. And i can do this just wih my amp's distortion. It cleans up pretty well too when you back off the guitars volume.

Its in those MXR boxes which are very strong. Its also lightweight so you wont have any probles carrying it around. Looks built to last. Dont think i would need a back-up not unless something extra ordinary happens to it.

Mike is always a nice person to deal with. I mean this is the third pedal i got from him and he is very friendly with emails. We send emails back and forth.

i play mostly old school rock: led zep, early clapton(cream, bluesbreaker, derek and dominoes/ santana) to sum it all up this pedal i think could be described by: any pedal's pedal. of course your other pedals should have true bypass. it helps make your pedals sound more, it sorts of it puts something that whatever your pedal or amp is missing. when i say more, i mean it gives it more warmth, harmonics, sound gets creamier. There is just no downside to this because it just makes your other units perform better. If i ever lose this i would definitey get another one.