B S M Finest Treble Booster

Model: OR

BS M would like to congratulate you on the purchase of your OR Treble Booster! The OR is based on the Orange Treble & Bass booster made in the late 60‘s in England, as used by in . The OR model includes a tone control which allows an extraordinary amount of versatility. When set to maximum, the unit produces a very glassy tone. When a middle setting is dialed in, the result is a punchy tone with a mids emphasis. When set to minimum, the unit produces a very bassy tone with a fat bottom end.

When used with a good tube amp, the unit is capable of producing the the tone which helped create epochal masterpieces such as ” Gumma´(1969), ””(1971) and ”Dark Side of The Moon”(1973). ´s and were also dedicated users of the original Orange Treble & Bass booster, which helped create the band‘s searing dual guitar harmonic rock style.

The long yearned for new edition, now issued under the name OR from BSM, includes the same OC76 germanium transistors as the the original 1960‘s version.

Almost all British rock guitarists using single coil pickup guitars used some type of germanium booster from the late 60‘s to the mid 70‘s. By the end of the seventies, these boosters were replaced by a new circuit from Japan, the so called Tube Screamer and other similar overdrive circuits. These were based on the old boosters and therefore had a very similar frequency response. The germanium boosters on the other hand, sadly fell into oblivion despite their unique and inimitable sound.

It is of interest to note that David Gilmour used the Orange Treble and Bass Booster to drive a new 100 watt Sound City stack, later replaced by a 100 watt Hiwatt stack.

The Treble and Bass Booster is inserted between guitar and amplifier, not into the FX loop. The magical tone is achieved by the interaction between guitar pickup, booster and amplifier. The unit is powered by a 9V battery with a current consumption of aprox. 250 mA. The average output level is 10dBm, the maximum output voltage when the strings are struck really hard is 7V max.

Enjoy your RM and good rockin´..... B S M Finest Treble Booster

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