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PRESS RELEASE
LegendaryTones and Keeley Team Up for New Pedal
August 08, 2002
Advertisement LegendaryTones and Keeley Electronics announced the LegendaryTones Time Machine Boost, a dual-channel, tri-mode boost pedal, designed to maximize the tone of your existing guitar and amplifier. By offering two unique modes of vintage-style boosts, as well as one modern, transparent clean boost, the Time Machine Boost helps guitarists deliver an expressive and diverse range of tones. From the blues, rock and roll, and fusion tones of the '60s and '70s, to a range of contemporary sounds and styles found in today s music, the Time Machine Boost is an indispensable link to help bring out the most from virtually any guitarist s rig. The LegendaryTones Time Machine Boost has a wide range of uses. Use the Time Machine Boost to further overdrive a tube amplifier into more harmonically rich distortion or as a preamp to strengthen the output signal of the guitar s pickups. Its two footswitchable channels with independent volume levels provide further dynamics, tone shaping, and versatility. "The Time Machine Boost concept came from a vision and desire of mine to combine the best of the vintage treble boosters such as the Dallas Rangemaster along with a custom modified vintage booster circuit and top it all off with a pure transparent clean boost and allow it to be fully footswitchable," said David Szabados, president of LegendaryTones. "I have a real appreciation for those sweet tones you can get from using a germanium transistor-based booster circuit and wanted the flexibility to switch between it and a contemporary clean boost that could fully satisfy the most critical musician's ear. I believe people will truly be pleased with the end result of the Time Machine Boost." Features
Applications The Modern channel is specially voiced to transparently squeeze additional natural gain from your tube amplifier to pump up your rhythms or solos. The Modern channel maintains the natural tone you already have, but just gives you more of it by strengthening the signal from the front end. If your amplifier is already being overdriven, the Modern channel can take your amp s overdrive over the top for compressed, sustaining leads. The modern channel can also function as preamp and can blend its boosted clean signal to an amplifier also set clean, which provides an instant volume boost in this environment, perfect for musical passages that need to stand out. Or click the footswitch to travel back in time with the Vintage channel to alter your sound with boosted tones that sing with musical sweetness and rich harmonics unique to those eras of the past. Old style chicken head knobs bring the feel and look of vintage designs of the past, but the circuit is refined, taking only the best from the past and refining the rest. The Vintage channel brings you two modes to travel to: 1966 and 1973. Toggle into 1966 and crank your amp up for tones that blend smoothly and put you up front in the mix by adding extra top-end sparkle with a mild overdrive. 1966 brings you back to the booster tones used by many of the British greats of the era and is especially designed to be used with an amplifier that is already being overdriven. Or, toggle into 1973 to fatten up and boost your single coil-equipped guitar, or add extra meat to the tone of your favorite humbucker guitar without losing definition or turning the sound to mud. 1973 will enable your guitar and amp to deliver a smoother, full-ranged rock n roll crunch with midrange, reminiscent of the best boosted rock tones of the era. Construction The Time Machine Boost is built with no compromises or short cuts with attention made to every detail within its completely hand-wired, point-to-point design on terminal strips that does away entirely with printed circuit boards and less-costly circuit board-mounted jacks and pots. Built in the same tradition of the greatest amplifiers and electronic circuits of the past, the Time Machine Boost uses only the best components, wire and assembly techniques. From use of premium silver solder and teflon wire, to a range of select metal-film resistors and capacitors, Switch Craft jacks, and two premium 3DPT switches for true bypass with multi-LED function, the Time Machine Boost delivers all its sonic qualities in a rugged, low-noise design made for a lifetime of musical use. The wiring methods and components used truly make the Time Machine Boost look like a work of art internally. "Each Time Machine Boost uses a genuine '60s-era new old stock JAN Military USAF germanium transistor that runs the Vintage channel," said Robert Keeley, president of Keeley Electronics and chief designer of the Time Machine Boost. "The circuit itself is uniquely built around each specific transistor that is accepted for use since each one will have different variances and tolerances." Keeley also commented about the rigorous R & D and testing involved with the Time Machine Boost's development. "For the Modern side, we spent months of experimenting with different transistors running in a number of computer-simulated environments, then took the best of those and ran them in real-world listening environments in a number of audio testing situations," continued Keeley. "We used a number of different amps, guitars, and were grateful for the handful of people that served as evaluators. David and I wanted the Time Machine Boost to not only be built in a 'no-compromise' fashion, but also to be versatile enough to lend itself to a wide variety of great musical tones." Pricing and Availability The Time Machine Boost by Legendary Tones has a suggested retail price of $289, and an average street price expected at $249. Full production manufacturing has begun and units are available for direct pre-order through LegendaryTones on the web at www.legendarytones.com. Dealer pricing and distribution is available. Due to the amount of time for crafting the all hand-built, point to point design there is a current anticipated waiting period of 3-6 weeks. A site exclusively about the Time Machine Boost will go live at the beginning of September at www.timemachineboost.com. Recent Legendary Tones headlines
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