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Congratulations – that’s one spicy hot booster you’ve got there!
The Catalinbread Super Chili Picoso Boost is a simple but incredibly useful little one-knob device loosely based on
the ’MOSFET BOOST’ circuit by Jack Orman. A clean and transparent volume booster than can also solve signal
quality issues with ease. Like our other pedals, special attention is devoted to the sonic qualities and dynamic feel
of the attack – no harsh ‘ice pick’ frequencies or ‘chirping’ on the pick attack here.
With 35dB of boost on tap, you can use it to overdrive the input of your
amplier or the input of an overdrive pedal eectively giving you a
second dirt channel – without adding any unwanted EQ coloration of
its own – what goes in is what comes out. You can also place it at the
end of your eects chain for a global volume boost AKA the ‘MORE!’
pedal.
If you’re a player who switches between guitars and struggles with
varying levels of output due to pickup dierences, you can use the
SCP to bump up single coils to humbucker output levels for stage
volume level consistency.
The SCP has 10meg ohms input impedance and 3k output, so it can
also be used for buering duties when the Volume control is set to
minimum. This can really help to add the high end sparkle and beef
back into your sound when dealing with long cable runs or pedal-
boards having more than a few true-bypass eects on them which can
really deaden the upper frequencies and kill dynamic response.
QUICK START GUIDE
While the SCP can be placed anywhere on your pedalboard, where it
is placed in the chain of eects will dictate what functions it will
perform within the context of your rig.
If you want simple buering with little to no additional volume boost,
it can be placed wherever you’d like. We suggest that if you have any Germanium or Silicon-based fuzzes (Fuzz
Faces, Tonebenders, etc) that you place those before the SCP so that they get a nice clean signal from your pickups. Buers can really screw with your volume knob dynamics if they are between the guitar’s pickups and the
fuzz in question. Keep the Gain control at minimum or set low to avoid overdriving the inputs of pedals downstream.
If higher gain and saturation levels for soloing or creating thicker rhythm parts are desired, place the SCP in front
of your overdrive or distortion pedal to boost it by turning up the Gain control to the desired level. Depending on
the headroom of the pedal being boosted, you may also get a decent amount of volume boost as well to help you
cut through the mix.
Just want the whole thing to be louder? Place it last in your eects chain to boost the output signal of any pedal
or combination of eects on your board. This is handy for bumping up the output of certain modulation eects
that can sometimes have a volume drop when engaged (real or perceived) to help them stand out in a band mix.
Pretty simple, yeah? One of those uncomplicated little problem solvers that just plain sounds good and does its
job while not screwing with the great sounds you’ve already got – that’s the Super Chili Picoso. We hope it helps
you get the best sounds from your rig so you can concentrate on making music – and we thank you VERY much
for your support!
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