5 BEST ways of using a BOOST PEDAL | XOTIC Super Clean & Super Sweet

#xotic #xoticeffects #cleanboost
Today we're going to check out the best ways of using clean boost pedals. To be honest, boost pedals often get overlooked, even though they are very important and really powerful too. You can do so much with a good clean boost and it can make your sound SO MUCH BETTER! We really shouldn't underestimate them.
The two pedals in this episode are the Xotic Super Clean and Super Sweet. I love them for quite a few reasons to be honest. The quality is spot on, they sound beautiful and the DIP switches on their side makes them very versatile and unique.
Check out these two incredible boost pedals here:
Xotic Super Clean: bit.ly/36fsHka
Xotic Super Sweet: bit.ly/3e4fVrp
The two boost pedals in this video have been sponsored by Xotic USA.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro Jam
00:42 Introduction
01:37 1. Always On Booster
02:20 Playing | Xotic Super Clean as an always on pedal
04:40 2. Clean Boost in front of everything else
05:47 3. Boost at the end of the signal chain
06:24 Playing | demo of the boost at the end
06:38 4. Matching different output guitars (really cool!!)
08:11 DIP Switches on both Xotic boost pedals
08:31 Playing | matching the volume of my Tele and Les Paul
10:00 5. Help quiet pedals
11:14 More about the Xotic Super Clean and Super Sweet
11:34 Playing | sound quality check
13:06 Playing | clean amp with the cranked Super Sweet
Gear used in this video:
-Fender Telecaster Custom Shop '53 reissue
(a similar custom shop tele: bit.ly/2KFVJld)
-Gibson Les Paul Custom Shop '58 reissue bit.ly/2FxKvek
-Analogman King of Tone www.analogman.com/
-REVV G2: bit.ly/2NbpV9R
-Walrus Audio Lillian phaser: bit.ly/3czfxB8
-Walrus Audio MAKO D1 delay bit.ly/2W4McqU
-REVV Dynamis 7/40 head: bit.ly/2IxwoId
-Universal Audio OX BOX bit.ly/2IyOeuj
-One Control Agamidae switcher: bit.ly/2KCXwZ3
-Ernie Ball cables and strap: bit.ly/2Io0dfg
-Cordial CRI series cables: bit.ly/2XiVLBR
-Evidence Audio patch cables: bit.ly/2Ixylo1
Other gear I use in my videos:
-Harley Benton Fusion-II Roasted SSP bit.ly/31FVawf
-Gibson ES-335 Traditional
(here's a specs wise very similar ES-335: bit.ly/2pTo92j)
-Gibson Les Paul CM 2015 - heavily modified (thin nitro refin; Lollar Dog Ear P90; Emerson electronics)
-Barocsi Troublecaster - Custom built T-style guitar with Gretsch Filtertrons
-Barocsi "Frankenstrat" (2000 Fender American Standard body + Warmoth neck)
-Bogner Ecstasy Red: bit.ly/37LtKse
(this is the current version; same sound, smaller housing)
-Coppersound Foxcatcher: coppersoundpedals.com/
-Supro Tremolo bit.ly/2Zpxn75
-REVV G3: bit.ly/2FvuANy
-REVV G4: bit.ly/2ZhxX39
-Tate FX Antares overdrive www.tatefx.co.uk/
-Tate FX Raise the Dead Germanium: www.tatefx.co.uk/
-Source Audio Nemesis delay: bit.ly/2Dft6Gd
-Dunlop Gypsy Fuzz pedal: bit.ly/2VKw4K0
-ENGL Fuzzyhead Fuzz: bit.ly/2QrjmPU
-J Rockett Archer overdrive: bit.ly/2Ges1z8
-Morgan 1x12 cab Twilight: bit.ly/2KFihDq
-NUX SOS Looper bit.ly/31TMxPx
The speech mic:
-SENNHEISER MKH 416: bit.ly/2w1EAMP
Audio Interface:
-Audient iD44: bit.ly/2Jo73zN
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Cheers,
Kris Barocsi

[@06szymonszymanski]

Boosters are so overlooked. People keep buying different pedals to find their tone but they seem to forget about boosters. They can do so much for your tone. They can enhance presence, harmonic content, boost overdrive pedals into high saturation before it hits the preamp etc. Brilliant video Kris. Thank you 🤘🏻

[@carminelombardi9575]

Fantastic review, I just bought both pedals and now I have a better understanding of how I will incorporate them in my chain. Thank you.

[@ericcarpenter3263]

I have had an EP Booster from Xotic for years. I’ve used it as my only pedal in front of a DSL-40 to boost for heavier parts. Used it with a Mesa Mk. 5 as a volume boost or to boost signals going in. But my favorite use so far, is using my 1958 Tweed Deluxe on about 3.5 and hitting the boost for raising gain and volume for almost a 2nd channel and using an overdrive for a heavy sound and boosting the volume of that. Xotic boosts are simple and easy to use. I absolutely love them. Not sure I would build any pedal board without one. Great video and that Tele into the boost sounds so great, Kris. Love your videos and if you are ever in Tulsa bring that Tele and we will plug it into a boost then into my Deluxe.... it may turn out to be one of the sounds that fixes all the worlds problems. Lol. Thanks brother and happy birthday.

[@Steven_SK]

Nice job Kris. Very good info. Thanks! Be well!

[@KrisBarocsi]

Thanks! You too my friend! 🤘

[@butnut3455]

Great review and demo! I have an EP boost 'always on' into my effects loop and my lead boost is a Super Sweet/EP Boost/Dispatch Master all looped together. I just ordered the Super Clean to give some volume and different EQ push for those inside solos between the chords. Big fan of the Xotic mini pedals. Your video is so well done, thanks!...subcribed!

[@darioxricci]

Great video! To even humbuckers and single coils I found great the pedal from seymour duncan,the pickup booster...It’ great for that job!

[@jeffrey.a.hanson]

Love my Super Sweet at beginning of chain. The dipswitches are a godsend and easier to use live than expected when switching guitars. It’s also taken my cheaper pedals like my MojoMojo or MXR classic and turn them into powerhouses. I do use a cheap booster in my fx loop to give a clean solo boost.

[@jeffreyeagen4896]

I have a sonic maximizer pedal that was recommended by someone at work. I don't know if it is a boost pedal, but it does act as one. It's at the beginning of my chain and it's ALWAYS on! I always use the clean channel on my amp and pedals for all the effects. I just got a delay pedal (the Cosmonaut VZ by Matthews effects) and can't wait to try it out!!

[@dr_tomK]

Great review Chris, but I was already a convert to the Super Clean (and EP Boost, SP Compressor, & SL Drive). Lots of fun to watch and I definitely leave with some ideas to try out. Cheers.

[@TheLadsBandLive]

My Super Clean is always-on in the front of a minimalist effects chain. It’s like a magic/secret ingredient.

[@Boogieplex]

Hey Kris, love your videos and guitar playing. im looking to get a little more “oomph” from my clean channel. I like my clean channel to have more bite,fullness and sustain….but not quite overdrive,just more richness and complexity and a bit more volume when engaging the boost. wich pedal do you think would work better for that? ? Im looking at ep boost,super sweet or super clean. Its going in the front of a Splawn Nitro. Thanks!

[@adamszekrenyes9741]

Great video! I have a problem which led me to find this video: I bought an audio interface and my direct guitar signal seems to bee too quiet and very low. Do you think a boost pedal would solve that?

[@DanielBrophyMusic]

Are those the stock Custom Shop pickups in the Tele? Sounds heavenly

[@kevon217]

Very useful, thanks

[@KrisBarocsi]

🙏 Cheers Kevin!

[@paulcowart3174]

Great demo 👍 These also have that same chip set that is in the old TS808s

[@qddk9545]

Yes, the print outside is the same 🙂

[@tommyburnhamsmusic]

Great Video. I got a Super Sweet Recently and I love it. Thinking about maybe getting a Super clean to replace my RC

[@CarlosCampos-ce3gp]

Why you want to replace the RC? what are the differences? I ask because in KZbin, pedals like Super clean and Super sweet, I don´t hear much difference compared with a guitar direct to an amp ( in youtube )

[@tommyburnhamsmusic]

@@CarlosCampos-ce3gp RC goes on my other board.

[@AlexisGuitars]

Really enjoyed this video and I would literally buy a super sweet boost based off of this video if I had the money right now haha. I do think that the clip between 5:12 and 5:16 of your facial expression changing when you turn the boost on basically sums up why you need a boost haha

[@mariosjosephidou1170]

Yet another brilliant demo and guitar playing!

[@banjobones4190]

I have an xotic ep boost and it is awesome... I actually use 3 boost pedals on my board: Analogman Beeno treble booster in front of my drive pedals, the ep boost right after the drives to boost for solos, and a Kingsley Page always on at the end of the chain. Overkill? Perhaps, but it sounds soooo good.

[@KrisBarocsi]

That sounds epic dude! It proves how great boosts can be. Cheers

[@paulcowart3174]

I've had the Super Clean for a while The EP booster for quite a while Both pedals work great in an effects loop as well as on your board

[@Doomlord777]

Which is better for boosting a high.gain amp?.ep or super sweet?

[@paulcowart3174]

@@Doomlord777 Either or probably the SC has more DB boost which you might not need

[@toneydavis9802]

Hey Kris. I have the Super Clean on my board. It does everything you say. You can crank the gain on the pedal and get some awesome drive tone just from the pedal.

[@KrisBarocsi]

Yeah man! It’s great, isn’t it. Cheers!

[@thomasvantorre1922]

Hi Kris thanks for your good explanation but can you place the super clean and/or behind your distortion? First I have Chromatic tuner/Wahwah/Compressor/overdrive/distorsion and then the super clean/sweet. And then Chorus/delay/reverb and another buffer? Or better behind the tuner? Thank you

[@DaniTorresOfficial]

Awesome vid as always!!! Using a booster ped is indeed a way better solution for evening out those hefty level differences between a humbucker and a sc, than carry around two amps, like I did... :D Bro, that tele just sounds soooo crazy...

[@KrisBarocsi]

Yeah, two amps is a lot of fun but not always necessary. Especially if you have to transport them yourself. Haha! Thanks my friend, much appreciated! Csákó Danim! :)

[@ryanwebster7873]

Would you put it before a compressor? Or after

[@Kapperman]

Very useful, thanks. I play pedalsteel and think to buy the sweet one.

[@giovanniinnavoig3671]

for jazz, which one to choose? sweet or clean?

[@Bairov]

Unity in True bypass and buffer? Seems louder to me.

[@EmilioConesa]

I have both of them. I really like the Super Sweet. Once you turn it on it’s hard to turn it off!

[@markweaver8529]

I have the super clean which I really like,does the super sweet go well with the super sweet? Do you have them both in at the same time?

[@EmilioConesa]

mark weaver you can use both but not at the same. I don’t use both anymore.

[@markweaver8529]

Emilio Conesa cool thanks,I’ve bought lots the ep booster instead of the super sweet.

[@danielcastillo5525]

What if I use 2 boosts, one at the very beginning of the chain and the other one at the very end of the chain both always on?

[@michaelcraig9449]

A video is always way better like this, when a guy has a lot lot enthusiasm for guitar and gear stuff.

[@stanislavmigra]

And what time you call this? Haha ... Anyway, I love boost pedals, so simple, yet so versatile pedals. Lately Im finding myself using my boost always on as a dynamic enhancer. It is more feel thing, than sound thing. I just love the way it adds to pick dynamics. One way, that was not mentioned here is using boost to "fake" fuzz pedal. Turn tbe boost relatively low and use dimed full range overdrive in front f it. Because of this, I still dont have any dedicated fuzz pedal. (But the new JHS Bender is kinda calling my name, I will see, I will see :D )

[@KrisBarocsi]

Good call Stanislav! Fake fuzz is always great. Gives you that old school sound! Cheers

[@stanislavmigra]

@@KrisBarocsi dimed Overhive into under boosting Super sweet, try it and let me know ;)

[@stanesposito2664]

Turn amp up from 4 to 5. Problem solved. LOL! I actually use an RC Booster, but mainly for additional tone shaping and very little gain.

[@spidgeb3292]

Very good video! I have both of these and love what they do to my sound, especially the Super Sweet. Wasn't sure how to channel the 20db boost though, and this helped give me a few options.

[@kristanbenson7688]

I recently bought an Ibanez ts 808.. I was a little underwhelmed with the drive, would the super Sweet help?

[@KrisBarocsi]

Hey, the TS isn’t really a Pedal you would use with a completely clean amp. Try it with a slight crunch on the amp, there’s killer. The Super Sweet can help to increase the saturation too, so in a way that could help, yes. Cheers!

[@kristanbenson7688]

@@KrisBarocsi thanks so much, I was shocked there virtually no drive on it’s own - I thought it was faulty! I tried with the dirty channel, it sings.. so I’m thinking of a king tone duelist as a pairing.

[@tiogate]

More louder is almost always more better.

[@bodhidharma2600]

🌞🌞🌞

[@cattv5063]

It's legit guys, I'm literally dead from laughter. This is my ghost typing.!!!

[@KrisBarocsi]

Meow 🤙

[@michaelcraig9449]

There are single coil guitars that are way hotter than a Les Paul. Ever hear of a Mosrite MK I? Single coils are around 13-14k.

[@PooNinja]

1 ✅ always 2✅sometimes 3✅in the end of the loop for more louder er 4 ✅ Rarely I guess when spiltin coils 5 more quieter??? That’s the pad pedal...🤔wait what I could sell that! poo pads ... wait that sounds wrong

[@PooNinja]

Maybe the Harley Benton Husher has a better sound?

[@craigthomson3621]

Did your guitar tech cut your hair?

[@josephturnner6390]

It's so weird when people just do random licks (not even in coordination with any musical melodies.They just began blasting away in their safety box on the neck, oblivious to what they are doing... Meaning there's no reason to be hitting those notes.It only sounds like someone running through the scales. . It's just floating licks all over the place like they're trying to get in as much as they can jumping from one thing to the next. There's no strong foundation . I'm not saying they don't know how to play music it's just that people have a bad habit of not understanding that less is better. You could only do a few notes, and be more effective.Hearing the tone better..

[@todhollo1961]

never used one in the 51 yrs of playing and don't plan to....

[@paulcowart3174]

A good amp doesn't need one unless you really need a solo boost I had an old Silvertone that needed no pedals

[@ptrisonic]

Jeez!, I've been playing longer than you... I like Boost pedals too - especially in a long pedal train. Cheers and good health! P.