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Esoteric RCB: based on Xotic RC Booster
Xotic is an American company that is known for its quality effects (such as BB preamp, AC Booster, Robotalk) and builds guitars and basses.
The RC Booster (“Real Clean”) is their popular clean boost pedal. It’s known for being very transparent, enhancing the guitar’s and amp’s own tones. There's truth to the company's claim that many owners, including pro players, leave the RC Booster switched on all the time as it makes things sound better, clean as well as dirty tones.
Scott Henderson is the RC Booster’s main endorser and has his own signature editions of the pedal, which led to the RC Booster v2.
Fractal's Audio’s model is based on the original RC Booster and was last updated in Quantum 5.x.
The real pedal has four knobs:
Clip Type in the model is set to silicon.
You can argue about the benefits of a transparent boost such as the RC Booster in Fractal Audio devices, because these devices already offer lots of other level boosting possibilities. Let’s what @austinbuddy (who loves the RC Booster) has to say about it!
About CPU usage:
More Xotic RC Booster videos ...
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Esoteric RCB: based on Xotic RC Booster
Xotic is an American company that is known for its quality effects (such as BB preamp, AC Booster, Robotalk) and builds guitars and basses.
The RC Booster (“Real Clean”) is their popular clean boost pedal. It’s known for being very transparent, enhancing the guitar’s and amp’s own tones. There's truth to the company's claim that many owners, including pro players, leave the RC Booster switched on all the time as it makes things sound better, clean as well as dirty tones.
Scott Henderson is the RC Booster’s main endorser and has his own signature editions of the pedal, which led to the RC Booster v2.
Xotic:
“The best characteristic of this pedal of this booster is to have no character at all.”
“The RC Booster offers a super transparent 20db+ clean boost and a +- 15db 2 band active EQ without ever compromising the integrity of the original TONE. It provides a solution to sound degradation, caused by long instrument cables and/or long effect chains between guitar and amp, by strengthening the original signal.”
“The best characteristic of this pedal of this booster is to have no character at all.”
“The RC Booster offers a super transparent 20db+ clean boost and a +- 15db 2 band active EQ without ever compromising the integrity of the original TONE. It provides a solution to sound degradation, caused by long instrument cables and/or long effect chains between guitar and amp, by strengthening the original signal.”
Fractal's Audio’s model is based on the original RC Booster and was last updated in Quantum 5.x.
The real pedal has four knobs:
- Gain: controls the amount of gain (model: Drive control). The pedal's own generated distortion in front of a clean amp is not its strongest quality IMHO. In most demos you'll see Gain at or below noon.
- Volume: sets the output level (model: Level control). The pedal has lots of output level available, and so does the model. Its not strange to have to set the Level control at a low value for unity gain.
- Bass and Treble (active EQ): the two active tone controls on the real pedal are handy tools to sculpt the tone, cutting or boosting lows and highs (+/- 15 dB). While the model also provides active Bass and Treble controls, they visually don't exactly behave the same as on the pedal.
Clip Type in the model is set to silicon.
Personal note:
I owned an RC Booster back in my “pedalboard” days. It’s a great tool add “something” to clean tones and to push a dirty amp.
I owned an RC Booster back in my “pedalboard” days. It’s a great tool add “something” to clean tones and to push a dirty amp.
You can argue about the benefits of a transparent boost such as the RC Booster in Fractal Audio devices, because these devices already offer lots of other level boosting possibilities. Let’s what @austinbuddy (who loves the RC Booster) has to say about it!
About CPU usage:
- Fractal Audio's Drive models take up varying amounts of CPU. The RC Booster requires a moderate amount.
- When a Drive block is engaged, CPU percentage will rise during playing, because CPU usage is "amplitude dependent".
More Xotic RC Booster videos ...
Link to the list of published threads
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