
Tadpui
Well-known member
I don't mean to bring all this stuff up again but I still don't understand why anyone would go to all that extra trouble to convert a compressor to a booster...just buy a booster already!
A clean boost wouldn't do nearly the same job as the CS3 in this instance. The CS3 adds sensitivity and sustain in addition to a boost. It holds my signal in the sweet spot of my amp's overdrive. A clean boost would just slam my amp's input harder and wouldn't necessarily hold my signal in the sweet spot. It'd be below, above, and on the sweet spot, all the time. It'd cause more overdrive, more distortion, more volume changes based on picking dynamics.
The CS3 reduces the dynamic range and therefore holds my signal strength in the desired spot to produce the desired amount of overdrive. It makes generating feedback easier.
Then I turn it off and get the nice wide dynamic range of my low-gain setting of my amp's crunch channel. If I play soft, it's clean. If I play hard, it's overdriven. The CS3 lets me play in the overdriven area all the time until I click it off.
A clean boost just doesn't sastisfy my needs for a solo boost.