CHANDLER LIMITED Little Devil Colored Boost

Product overview

The CHANDLER LIMITED Little Devil Colored Boost is a class A guitar boost pedal that is not a clean boost and not a fuzz: six Feedback & Bias presets, from slightly fuzzy to in-your-face, three boost ranges, a three-way Highs switch and true bypass.

The soul of the Colored Boost is its class A amplifier design and the selectable Feedback & Bias control. Each of the six presets has its own style of harmonic distortion and clipping: soft clipping, hard clipping, clipping on the top, bottom or both sides of a sine wave, and significant changes in frequency happen with each click of the switch. The Colored Boost can range from gentle sustain to screaming vintage, and from slight fuzz to tight and in your face, for guitar, bass or keyboard.

Key features

• Class A silicon transistor circuit: full, coloured tone
• Color Boost gain control: the pedal gets brighter as you boost more
• Feedback & Bias: six presets that change negative feedback and the bias of the gain transistor together
• Boost Range: Highs, Mids or Full
• Highs: Smooth, Bright or Very Bright
• True (hardwire) bypass footswitch
• 1/4" mono input and output for guitar, bass or keyboard
• Runs on one 9 V pedal power supply or one 9 V battery

Six Feedback & Bias presets

The Feedback & Bias switch selects both the negative feedback and the bias of the circuit. Feedback changes the gain, frequency response, clipping and harmonic distortion; bias changes the operation of the gain transistor, especially the clipping and distortion. In the Full range: preset 1 is boost with a bit of fuzz (about 40 dB, distortion about 31 %); 2 the same without the fuzz (41 dB, 17 %); 3 more harmonic distortion (39 dB, 6 %); 4 entirely harmonic without clipping (36 dB, about 2 %); 5 the mildest boost with colour (23 dB, 0.25 % THD); 6 crunchy, chunky and in your face at lower gain (31 dB, 0.77 % THD). Distortion and clipping are less pronounced in the High and Mid ranges.

Color Boost

The Color Boost control sets the amount of gain. It is not linear in its sound: the pedal gets brighter as you boost more, so use the Boost Range together with the boost to tailor the sound.

Boost Range

Selects the frequency response at the beginning of the circuit, to keep the sound focused. Highs is similar to old-school treble boosters, with just the high frequencies boosted; Mids is a broader treble boost adding high mids and a touch of low mids; Full is the widest range, covering the low mids and into the lows, with just enough of the lows left out to keep the sound tight. Full is also a great setting for bass and keyboards.

Highs and bypass

The Highs toggle (Smooth, Bright, Very Bright) sets the overall brightness of the pedal: useful with amplifiers of different sizes, to fine-tune a small bright combo or brighten a muddy stack. The footswitch is a true, full or hardwire bypass, whichever term you like.

In the box

• Little Devil Colored Boost pedal

CHANDLER LIMITED Little Devil Colored Boost: frequently asked questions

What power does it need?

One 9 V pedal power supply with the polarity shown in the manual, or one 9 V battery.

How is the battery fitted?

Remove the four black screws on the sides (never the screws on top) to reach the battery clip.

How much boost does it give?

The brochure states 39 dB of boost; the manual's presets reach from 23 dB to 41 dB of maximum gain in the Full range.

Is it a clean boost?

No. It is a coloured class A boost: from gentle colour to slightly fuzzy and in-your-face, depending on the Feedback & Bias preset.

Where can I buy the CHANDLER LIMITED Little Devil Colored Boost in India?

The CHANDLER LIMITED Little Devil Colored Boost is available from Shivansh Electronics, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, with delivery across India.

Workflow 1: Slightly fuzzy boost

Guitarists wanting edge.

Connections

Setup

1. Select preset 1.
2. Set the Boost Range to Full.
3. Raise the Color Boost.
4. Set the Highs.

Tip: Funky sounds are possible on this setting depending on amp and guitar.

Workflow 2: In-your-face crunch

Rock players.

Connections

Setup

1. Select preset 6.
2. Pick a Boost Range.
3. Set the boost.
4. Play.

Tip: Preset 6 is crunchy and chunky at lower gain.

Workflow 3: Just a touch of colour

Players who are not high-gain users.

Connections

Setup

1. Select preset 5.
2. Set the boost.
3. Choose Smooth highs.
4. Leave it on.

Tip: The mildest boost, still with colour.

Workflow 4: Treble boost

Vintage tones.

Connections

Setup

1. Set the Boost Range to Highs.
2. Select preset 2.
3. Raise the boost.
4. Fine-tune with Highs.

Tip: Highs is similar to old-school treble boosters.

Workflow 5: Bass and keyboards

Bass players and keyboardists.

Connections

Setup

1. Set the Boost Range to Full.
2. Pick preset 3 or 4.
3. Set the boost.
4. Play.

Tip: Full keeps the sound tight while covering the lows.

Workflow 6: Recording direct

Home recording.

Connections

Setup

1. Power the pedal.
2. Set preset and range.
3. Record.
4. Note the settings on the recall sheet.

Tip: The output also connects to a computer input.