Rooster

Product Overview

Treble Booster based on the Dallas Rangemaster, the secret ingredient for the legendary sounds heard by Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Rory Gallagher, Brian May and Tony Iommi. Built from the greatest parts available (and not !), tropical fish capacitors and with carbon comp resistors for pure vintage sound !

The transistor choice is crucial for the Rooster, therefore we searched and found the best and extremely rare germanium transistors ever made : the CV7003, military-spec OC44 germanium transistors. Each individual transistor is measured for gain and leakage and then hand picked and matched through sound audition.

Playing with the guitar volume, you can achieve many sounds, from clean crunchy tone, to fat boosted overdrive ! Also, a lifesaver when in a dead-sounding-amp situation, where you can use it in front of the amp's input constantly on, to liven-up the amp's sound !

 

Rooster users : David Hidalgo, Julien Kasper, Ricky Z...

"...playing the Rooster through a good overdriven tube amp evokes some of my favorite classic tones and you get a great variety of sounds by manipulating your guitar volume..." Julien Kasper

" The Rooster is an incredible ! It is the smoothest treble booster I've heard. Between the three settings, it is possible to get the original Rangemaster as well as Hornsby-Skewes tones. When pushing an amp, it's my favorite color. More than just hearing the note, you can actually "Feel" it coming through the amp." Ricky Z.

Technical Information

  • True-Bypass
  • Controls : Level , treble/mid/bass toggle switch
  • It works with a 9V battery (recommended) or 9V boss-type DC adaptor. *Caution : this circuit uses positive ground. Therefore you cannot connect this pedal to any type of chained power supply linked with other common DC-powered pedals, unless the power supply unit features separate isolated DC outputs.
  • It uses only 5mA of power when ON and barely any power when off (under 0.2mA!) so the battery will last hundreds of hours !
  • Dimensions : 111 x 60 x 32 mm
  • Limited Life-time warranty !

Extras

Gallery

Audio Samples



Sample 1 : Rooster
67' Epiphone Riviera

Sample 2 : Rooster OFF - ON
mid position
D'Pergo Strat Aged Vintage Classic LTD

Sample 3 : Rooster treble position
D'Pergo Strat Aged Vintage Classic LTD

Sample 4 : Rooster bass position
1958 Reissue Les Paul

Sample 1 by Axel Heilhecker
amp :
18 Watt Marshall

Samples 2,3,4 by Julien Kasper (copyright 2010), recorded with:
amp
: Marshall 1974x 1x12 18W combo reissue into 70's Marshall 4x12 with 25W greenback Celestion speakers
mics
: Close 4x12 - Sennheiser 409
Beyer 160 30cm back
Close 1x12 - Shure SM57, Royer 121
Ambient: RCA 44BX 5m back, AEA R-84 3m back and 30cm off the floor

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Videos

And if you haven't had enough, we feel that this is an excellent represantation of the Rooster by JetCity music :