Electro-Harmonix LPB-1

Ok you cant go wrong with it It has a boost control .. and a stomp button to turn it on and off...

I dont really know how to describe the sound of the device itself but it gives a "clean" signal boost

I say "clean" because I mainly use it to *** crunch to my tube bass amp wich is one of it's usual use

Made from metal case EHX way. You can throw it out of the window and it will still work

Ok if you need a boost pedal that is it. Simple, no so expensive considering other options but it only a boost pedal.

It can give good crunch out of some lower gain amp but I advice to try it first because not all amps have a good overdrive with boost pedal

It had only one knob, so it is very easy to use

I use de EHX LPB1 as a clean boost. This pedal is the last pedal in my pedalboard. If you place it as the first pedal, than it sounds more like an overdrive pedal. But when placed as the last pedal in your effects chain it is a clean boost. Turn the knob between 9 an 10 o clock when you use it to pull up the volume for your solo's. It is not completely a clean boost, because it gives a coloured sound in the middle frequencies. But this coloured sound is very warm and ideal for getting a great sound for your guitar solo's.

It's build like a tank, so it is impossible to get this pedal broken. Maybe with a hammer, but in normal use it won't let you down.

I only have contact with EHX for tips for use fot their pedals and never for trouble with my EHX pedals. They react very quick so I can use their tips for creating a good guitar sound.

I play rock and hardrock. If this pedal would be stolen, then I would buy the same pedal again.
Before I got this pedal, I used tubescreamers and other overdrive pedals to boost my sound. This pedal gives me a sound that is very much like the sound of my rhythm guitar (which is great), but it is very much louder than my rhythm sound, so it is gresat for solo's.

Electro-Harmonix LPB-1 (nano version)
well what can i say?. it has one knob (level control) a red l.e.d. and a footswitch to turn the unit on and off.

you will have to get your phillips head screwdriver out if you want to change batteries, no big deal right?

while i love this pedal, it seems that there is a HUGE BASS BOOST that ends up getting bigger as you rotate the boost knob clockwise.
this just might be great, if you play a strat or any other guitar with single coil pickups, looking for a gain boost while adding some beefier low end to your guitar sound.

you can use this beast in an fx loop too, especially if you want to add some more low end chunk, and quite possibly to get your tube amp(if you got one) power tubes to distort more. seems like it makes you sound here WAY LOUDER if you want by increaseing the boost knob.

as for me, i just had to tinker with the capacitors inside.
there are three .1 (100 volt) caps in there that control the tone of this puppy. i changed all three to .01 (50 volt) caps, i guess its ok because we are only using a 9 volt battery, but anyways they are smaller ones for a nice cutting sound, sounds like a treble booster i guess and kinda like putting an eq BEFORE the amps input. anybody whos anybody like eddie vanhalen to kerry king get their sound like that using a half cocked wah, eq, or something before the amp.

im using a san dimas type guitar made from african mahogany, that i had bought from Mitch, at KNEguitars.com with an EMG in the bridge.

then it goes to the LPB-1 and then to the input of my Peavey Windsor.
From there i go in through the FX loop with a Behringer EQ. I need to get a noise reduction pedal, maybe a Decimator. but finally goes through my crate blue voodoo cab.

the pedal does get noisy, but doesnt anything when you boost gain?

the pedal does sound really good, and especially to me AFTER i did the mod.

i would say that it is a reliable unit, they dont cost much at all, i picked mine up used at the local music store for 30 bucks so...

id gig without it, but i hate to mess with an EQ, especially two of them. get one, do the mod (if you want) and forget about setting pre distortion EQ pedals forever! set it and forget it, LOL

never delt with the company, but theyve been around forever.

i play anything from Sabbath, to Deicide and have been playing guitar for over 20 years now.

if it were lost or stolen id be pissed! but id definatley get another one, or maybe build one myself.

i like the fact that it only has one knob, and i dont have to mess with anything else to get the sound i want.

i think it would be cool if they had a rotary knob on it so you could get different tones out of it without haveing to modify it yourself.

One switch, one knob, one in and one out. If you can't understand this pedal, put it down and take up needlepoint.

I use this with an LTD EC-50 (with a bill lawrence xl in the bridge, and a 70's super distortion in the neck), Electro Harmonix Metal Muff, and a Marshall MG-100.
Guitar to LPB, to distortion, to amp.
Heavy-*** ****.
Adds a ton of gain, and seems to chunk up the bottom a lot.
Nice and ballsy.
Helps me with feedback, as well.
Only reason this gets a 5, is because it's REALLY noisy. It's also from the 70's, and was purchased for $0.25

There's not much to break, and only a few bucks worth of parts in it.
I'm adding it to my live setup.

EH have always been good on service, but there's nothing to service here.

One knob, one stomp switch. Easy peasy. This review is for the Nano version.

I use this to boost my OD pedals (I am using an MXR Distortion +, a DOD YJM308 and a Boss SD 1 Japan model).
This is not a totally clean boost, it adds some mids and gain at the same time, which is great for me, especially on the OD pedals that dont have a tone control.
I usually have my pedals set to minimum drive as a rhythm sound, and use the LPB-1 as a solo boost and to add more gain. It has more hair than Tom Selleck's mo!
One thing i dont like is using this in front of my amp (Fender Hot Rod Deluxe) as a boost between my guitar and amp (i.e. without any pedals on). This makes the amp sound farty, which is not my cup of tea..

Seems reliable. Hasnt failed on me yet.

Adds some gain, volume and some bite to my OD pedals. A simple pedal, but oh so useful. It always sits on my pedal board. I love it.

stomp it on. dial in your volume level. save for that sweet solo. 20 db ( if i remember right) of pure volume and the dial is nice and smooth and gradual.

I've played this thing through my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe and now my current amp of Blue Jr. Vintage edition with the Jensen vintage speaker..also run this thing through a church PA system. Guitar used is a Epiphone Dot with the stock humbuckers. This thing is really sweet, especially through my tube amps, no coloration that i've noticed so far and i'm pretty particular and quiet as a mouse. With the amps i use it to push the tubes into distortion, sometimes sounds better than using my TS808 depending on the settings and definitely better than tinkering with the master volume and volume dials on my Blues Jr. For the church PA system the sound guys tend to make me quieter than they should :) so... set up all my other effects and play in the mix a bit and during a practice song i'll punch this guy on and set it to a level that i deem as decent and then turn it back off...save if to push on during service where they aren't paying enough attention to turn me down. Works like a charm everytime, there's no loud click or lurge in volume or change in anything, i'll just get a little louder between a few notes.

8 just because i'm not sure if it colors or drops tone at all, i haven't tested that to my satisfaction

Built like a flipping tank, this isn't on my board yet so it stays in my gig bag right now, no scratches or anything even though its just floating around in there. never failed for it to turn on or dial in my volume correctly.

never had to deal with em.

This pedal is great. no bells and whistles. but its doesnt need those things, i'd really reccomend this for fellow tube amp owners out there, sometimes you don't need a crazy distortion or overdrive, just turn your amp volume down a bit and use this guy to boost the signal and then you'll get that loverly tube overdrive

you dont know the word easy till youve gotten this pedal, this pedal is serious about doing its thing right away, just adjust the knob to the sound level you want.

great sound! this is my first -boost- pedal so i dont know how a bad one sounds or how a good one sounds but im very happy with this pedal in my rig. this pedal is great value to any pedal board, what it does is heighten the sound of your tone or maybe its heighten the tone of your sound. anyway goes well with any effect except maybe compressor...

only thing maybe that i can complain about is the fact that its size makes the on/off switch close to the boost control knob so maybe sometimes you accidently bump it.

i got the nano version going first into a barber tone press (which i may put last in chain) metal muff, guyatone td-x echo, holy grail, morely wah/volume, digitech whammy, verbzilla, boss dm3, mutron phasor, tremolo pulse, korg dt10.

fender telecaster and fender hotrod deville 212

i was looking at the mxr micro amp for a long time and thinking it was some sort of overdrive, so when i got this i was thinking a weak distortion box this will be is all. boy was i freaking wrong! its a tone boost more like... so anyway good price, good sound, good size, etc. 40 bucks 40 bucks

First of all: This is the Nano version, not the original little doodad that plugged directly into the amp. It still works the same way, one volume knob and an on-off switch.

Kicks MUCH booty into the front-end of an amp. Best used with non-master volume tube amplifiers. Any apparent noise will also be boosted, so, caveat emptor.

It looks much tougher than the old folded-metal units.

Never had to deal with them.

When I started playing (back in the late '60s), the LPB-1 was hands-down my all-time favorite box. I'm thrilled they're making them again, and they seem to work just as well as the originals. Tell you what . . . if you've ever seen the old black-and-white Band of Gypsies video, look real carefully at Jimi's Marshalls . . . they all have LPB-1s plugged into them. 'Nuff said.

Simple to use, 1 knob only.

I really like the umpf the LPB-1 adds to my set up. Right now I'm playing thru a Lone Star Strat, thru the effects loop with a Teese Wah,
Boss Graphic Eq, Boss Flanger, Boss Delay, the LPB-1, Marshall Reflector Reverb, and then Boss TU-2 tuner. The LPB-1 was to boost the Marshall pedal, which sucks volume when kicked in. I liked the LPB-1 so much, I leave it on all the time, so now I need another LPB to re-boost the Marshall when kicked on. I love the LPB-1. It's brought me 1 step closer to my tone quest fulfillment.

Don't know yet, it's a new product, but seems quite solid.

Never needed it yet, but their website is pretty limited.

I love it ! I'm gonna buy another, and if it was lost, I'd immediately replace it. At 39$, it's a great deal !

This review is referring to the "Nano" reissue of this pedal.

There's one knob and a footswitch. You turn the knob to set how much of a boost you want, this pedal is truly idiot proof.

I bought this pedal for one reason, and that was to use it as a boost for my USA Big Muff. I build my own tube amps, and I design them to be capable of all the distortion I need without a booster pedal. I do have a '65 Gibson Hawk that I tried this pedal with though and it did sound very good.

One thing you have to understand is that this is not a flat boost. It "fattens" up your sound a little bit. I keep the "sustain" knob on my Big Muff fairly low for rhythm and use this pedal in front of it when I need a little something extra for solos. It works very well for this. Another thing that's worth noting is that this pedal is indeed true bypass.

I play a solid maple 1980 Gibson 335-S which is typically tuned down to C standard these days, as well as a heavily modified strat copy. This pedal works well with both, and sounds pretty good with the low output pickups in my Strat. This pedal did not seem to add any noise to the sound. The previous reviewer's unit must have a ground issue.

It seems like a pretty robust pedal. I have not had it that long but I was impressed by the quality of the case, it seems sturdier than my Muff to be honest. I'd say it's probably going to last me a long time, and I would probably gig without a backup, although these are cheap enough that a backup might not hurt in any case.

Never had to deal with EHX.

I play everything from blues to classic rock to "stoner rock" (which is where the Muff comes in handy :) ) This is a boost pedal, it's suitable for whatever kind of music you think you need a boost pedal for.

I've been playing a year and a half, but I have always been a tone freak since a couple months into my playing. I'm typically not happy with anything out there, which is why I started building my own amps. If this pedal were stolen I'd eventually get another one, it's not like my tone depends solely on this pedal and most of the time I just go straight from the guitar into the amp, but this pedal is nice to have.

It's a good solid boost, it does change your tone, but from what I can tell it's in a good way. There's nothing really bad about this pedal, it's really simple and either you like what it does, or you don't. I do also really like that it's true bypass.

I did spend a little time shopping around, but this is one of the simplest pedals ever created and EHX is a pretty good brand in general so I'm sure I made the right call getting this pedal for what I was going to use it for. It has everything I want in a boost pedal - a knob and a switch.

Overall, it's cheap, it's simple, it's small, and if you're just looking for a boost pedal to drive an amp or pedal harder, or fatten up your sound, you really can't do much better than this, especially for the price.