The Alembic Stratoblaster is basically a "boost" switch. With a mini flathead screwdriver, you have to set the gain control inside the switch to set/boost your personal volume. (Notice the mini access screw "hole" under the switch) This will enable you to cut through the music you're making..
No, it's booster, whatever you attach it will boost it, I just made mine, but as a pedal, not into guitar, with a gain pot, bro it is truly beast, it makes your clean amp channel distorted as hell if you want, and when you turn overdrive you cannot pass even 5 how brutal it is, but beautiful tone ..I suggest you to buy or make one, surely best pedal I've ever tried
I've never used any of these, I've installed several different types of Jerry Garcia "mods" for people. I've probably done a couple dozen, all of them were brought to me by the customer had me install them for them. As far as I can tell, they were all pretty much just unity-gain buffers. Most of them don't really boost anything the way clean boost pedals do, or really even the way onboard mid-boosts like you find on the Clapton Strats. Most of them were buffers, so they work by taking the relatively high- impedance signal that is created by passive guitar pickups, and lower them considerably. So for instance if you run your guitar through long cables with a standard wired guitar, the "tone-suck" that happens for to the capacitance that long cable will have will result in a lot of treble and low end loss, it's the same if you run through a bunch of true-bypass pedals if you don't introduce a buffer in your signal chain. The unity gain buffer with lower the impedance and you'll get back the signal you've lost. Some of them did have a signal boost to them, but it was more of a linear boost or "pure boost" like you get from an MXR Micro amp, EP booster, or even like an EQ pedal when you leave the frequency sliders flat and just slide up the output volume. The big reason most of the people I've installed them for uses them is that it when you run them through pedals, especially modulation/delay/reverbs, etc, they make they pedal's effects much clearer and they tend to sound better. I'm pretty sure this is why it sounds like he's using delay or reverb when he turns it on and it's less noticable when it's off. And the Boost again isn't really a boost, you're just hearing the difference between buffered signal vs unbuffered, again it's similar to introducing a buffer in a long signal chain.
@@timwhite5562 Booster is not the same as buffer, I know what buffer is..put it at beginning of chain and it will hold volume on high level, but booster is different thing, it boosts (change frequencies to some level) everything if you put it in front of pedals, but if you put it after pedals it will work similar like buffer, holding volume high...you should try some of them, rangemaster is probably most famous, I'm working right now on jfet booster and echoplex preamp (which also give 10 db to sound) people say it's awesome
The Alembic Stratoblaster is basically a "boost" switch.
With a mini flathead screwdriver, you have to set the gain control inside the switch to set/boost your personal volume. (Notice the mini access screw "hole" under the switch) This will enable you to cut through the music you're making..
I second Kyles question. I am contemplating getting one of these to get closer to Garcia's strat sound with my standard strat. Thanks for the vid.
I'd agree with that! (and now the chrome one is $169!). Arctec do a 5 step onboard boost for pennies.Same deal,more useful.
If you had your amp set on the edge of breakup, it would push you over into Overdrive territory. That's what it's for.
Have you tried to turn the gain up on it, via the gain control beneath the switch?
Thanks for the video man
I think your trim pot needs adjusting a bit?
thanks for the video. what amp are you using?
6min review...45secs of actual playing to let us hear the product being reviewed.
Who said it was a review
Uhm so it’s a delay /reverb attached to your guitar ..?
No, it's booster, whatever you attach it will boost it, I just made mine, but as a pedal, not into guitar, with a gain pot, bro it is truly beast, it makes your clean amp channel distorted as hell if you want, and when you turn overdrive you cannot pass even 5 how brutal it is, but beautiful tone ..I suggest you to buy or make one, surely best pedal I've ever tried
I've never used any of these, I've installed several different types of Jerry Garcia "mods" for people. I've probably done a couple dozen, all of them were brought to me by the customer had me install them for them. As far as I can tell, they were all pretty much just unity-gain buffers. Most of them don't really boost anything the way clean boost pedals do, or really even the way onboard mid-boosts like you find on the Clapton Strats.
Most of them were buffers, so they work by taking the relatively high- impedance signal that is created by passive guitar pickups, and lower them considerably. So for instance if you run your guitar through long cables with a standard wired guitar, the "tone-suck" that happens for to the capacitance that long cable will have will result in a lot of treble and low end loss, it's the same if you run through a bunch of true-bypass pedals if you don't introduce a buffer in your signal chain. The unity gain buffer with lower the impedance and you'll get back the signal you've lost. Some of them did have a signal boost to them, but it was more of a linear boost or "pure boost" like you get from an MXR Micro amp, EP booster, or even like an EQ pedal when you leave the frequency sliders flat and just slide up the output volume.
The big reason most of the people I've installed them for uses them is that it when you run them through pedals, especially modulation/delay/reverbs, etc, they make they pedal's effects much clearer and they tend to sound better. I'm pretty sure this is why it sounds like he's using delay or reverb when he turns it on and it's less noticable when it's off.
And the Boost again isn't really a boost, you're just hearing the difference between buffered signal vs unbuffered, again it's similar to introducing a buffer in a long signal chain.
@@timwhite5562
Booster is not the same as buffer, I know what buffer is..put it at beginning of chain and it will hold volume on high level, but booster is different thing, it boosts (change frequencies to some level) everything if you put it in front of pedals, but if you put it after pedals it will work similar like buffer, holding volume high...you should try some of them, rangemaster is probably most famous, I'm working right now on jfet booster and echoplex preamp (which also give 10 db to sound) people say it's awesome
@@CarpeDiem23 so it's a linear boost, like a Buff 'n boost or micro amp.