Super Booster

[jimilee]

How come I can't find a layout for the old color sound power booster?


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[Matt]

Supposedly the same as the overdriver
http://revolutiondeux.blogspot.com/2012/02/colorsound-power-boost-overdriver.html?m=1

[Muadzin]

There are a few differences. You can build both from the pedalpartsUK vintage pow board and a quick look shows there are at least 3 small circuit changes that require jumpering and 9 different component values.

http://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/Vintage_POW!_Colorsound_ODPower_Boost/p847124_12489351.aspx

[zombie_rock123]

Guessing Jimilee you're building this on the Gilmour quest you mentioned recently.. what songs/albums did David use it on?

[jimilee]

Guessing Jimilee you're building this on the Gilmour quest you mentioned recently.. what songs/albums did David use it on?

I haven't checked the songs yet, but I do know he used it along with the bigmuff (right after it) and that he used it on the wall and dark side of the moon. Since I'm new to seriously learning guitar instead of strumming chords, I want to experiment and find my sound, plus I really dig his playing.  I don't want to sound like him, but to play like him in other styles wouldn't be a bad thing.


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[Muadzin]

I have the opposite view, I don't mind stealing some of his sounds, I just have no desire to play like him. As for the Power Booster a quick check on Gilmourish.com has it that it was only used on Obscured by Clouds, Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and Animals. For the overdrive sounds on the Wall a Mesa Boogie amp and a Cornish ST-2 booster were used. I wouldn't be surprised though if the latter was a Pete Cornish clone of the Power Booster, just like the P1 and P2 are Pete Cornish clones of the Big Muff. The Mesa Boogie is interesting. Apparently he used a Mesa Boogie head as an overdrive stomp box.

Personally though my favorite Gilmour tone is the one from Live in Pompeii. His lead tone on Echoes is unsurpassed in my opinion.

[jimilee]

I have the opposite view, I don't mind stealing some of his sounds, I just have no desire to play like him. As for the Power Booster a quick check on Gilmourish.com has it that it was only used on Obscured by Clouds, Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and Animals. For the overdrive sounds on the Wall a Mesa Boogie amp and a Cornish ST-2 booster were used. I wouldn't be surprised though if the latter was a Pete Cornish clone of the Power Booster, just like the P1 and P2 are Pete Cornish clones of the Big Muff. The Mesa Boogie is interesting. Apparently he used a Mesa Boogie head as an overdrive stomp box.

Personally though my favorite Gilmour tone is the one from Live in Pompeii. His lead tone on Echoes is unsurpassed in my opinion.

Well, I see your point, I don't want to play just like him, but he has some great licks that I can use in other styles, but armed with this knowledge, I can create my own. I haven't seen live in Pompeii, the reunion show was nice though. I still have much to learn.


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[Muadzin]

You gotta see Live in Pompeii! It shows them at the top of their game when it was just the four of them, before they felt the need to add legions of backing singers and extra musicians. Less is more in that respect and it makes for a more raw and powerful sound. Gilmour only had a limited number of effects at that time, a wah, a volume pedal, a fuzz and that Binson echorec delay and he gets crazy sounds out of that setup. You see and hear Saucerful of Secrets for the first time and it blows your mind. Plus it was before Roger became an ass so it was actually still a band, not Roger Waters and his not so friends.

[JC103]

Kitrae (of course) has an extensive thread going on the gilmour forum about the mesa preamp distortion... but that's a gilmour in the 80's sound. In a nut shell, internet lore speaks of gilmour using the colorsound post muff for the eq curve it provides. I am yet to try it, but it seems logical. Plus there are some guitar tones on obscured by clouds that I really like. Have a cigar has the phase 90 and the colorsound on it I believe.

[JC103]

You could look at the Cherry Bomb by Bean, or the Plasma project over at Aion.

http://www.madbeanpedals.com/projects/Cherrybomb/docs/CherryBomb_2015.pdf

https://aionelectronics.com/diy-pcb-projects/