Boost

no unfortunaly I'm a boy, its more common for woman to be called darcy but theres a few male darcys. thanks for the assiatcne, any idea where to get a good build your own boost from? i would have no idea where to start

check BYOC first, they're the premier clone kit company... but General Guitar Gadgets does more interesting stuff as well as clones. I think they do a kit for a colored boost known as the AMZ Minibooster, or they used to. Everyone should try this boost. It sounds amazing, although it doesn't have tone controls so its not the thing you're looking for. In boosts with treble and bass controls I really think the original is best, the colorsound powerbooster (aka overdriver). I think you can get a kit for that. its a handful of silicon transistors that go from boost to fuzz basically. If you add an output control it can work as a fuzz at less than ear splitting levels but tis magic stock. I never bothered to build one but I've repaired them and its not a particularly complicated circuit. A good first boost would be a stock microamp or LPB1 though. Both are fantastic stock without any other controls and they're hard to screw up due to the simplicity. Honestly, the more shit like that you put in your signal chain the more you compromise your tone. You think you're helping yourself out but if you had a core tone you were proud of you wouldn't want to have so many options. I don't even like amps with tone controls anymore. Treble and bass at most, man. Midrange is a nuisance. Even treble and bass controls cause unwanted notch filtering and phase shift around the notch that ic an do without, but I like my sound a lot after all these years. I'm used to the tone off my fingers and I'm realcomfortable with that finally... took a long time to be there. Maybe my hands started sounding better or maybe I just had to get less uptight? I have all these different amps but I like how if I plug right in they all sound kinda similar if its me playing. When I put a lot of stuff in the way and start fidgeting the controls around chasing soemthing I lose that.

ah i watched that pedals shows video on them, seem to get very impressive tones from their hiwatt, a shame mine is only 5 watts compared to 100 ;)

yeah, there's hiwatts and HIWATTS... but any amp wil do well with a colorsound powerboost, it really is a great circuit... I still have a clone aorund and I used to own a real one which i sold for big bucks when iw a sgetting divorced a few years ago. If I new she was going to die I wouldn't have lawyered up and I would still have it.