Diamond Pedals releases its 2nd new Overdrive Pedal of this Reissue Series - the Boost / EQ - essentially a boost / overdrive with a Tilt EQ control and Mids sweep

One of my favourite control topologies / Tone Stacks is a 2-controls : Tilt EQ + Mids Sweep - that is surprisingly potent for Overdrive Pedals in particular. The eagle-eyed among you will have noted that the relatively recent Comp / EQ has a near identical main variable control topology - Level, Comp, Mids, Tilt. Where on this ’Boost / EQ’ we have Level, Gain, Mids and Tilt.

In fact this pedal is very much based on the Gain engine / circuit from the Comp / EQ - minus the compressions element. A clean boost element is active within the circuit - which you can gain up to a Medium strength overdrive.

The previous Diamond Overdrive Pedal - the Diamond Drive was more conventional with : Level, Drive, Bass, and Treble - so 2-band EQ - where I personally much prefer the Tilt + Mids tone stack of tis new one.

The toggle switch flips between Boost and Overdrive gain structure - so presumable adding in a further gain stage (via additional diode clipping). At least conceptually I prefer the Boost / EQ to the Diamond Drive - while I would need to test them head-to-head to pick out a favourite.

It’s certainly an interesting project - building up a Boost / Overdrive from the guts of a Compressor pedal. I’m not sure I particularly like this colourway - all the original pedals were very distinct and mostly quite bright and impactful - I feel this one would have been better served by a bolder colourway.

The Boost / EQ / Overdrive is available for $209 / €239 / £215 from the Diamond Pedals Webstore! And of course imminently at leading International Dealers.

I’ve included the original reissues release visual - so you can see the Conp / EQ and Diamond Drive pedals that this Boost / EQ is adjacent to! Note that the Boost/EQ is actually a kind of reissue as there was a 1590BB size version out for the same circuit - around 15 years ago! So this is not a new idea / project as I first assumed - most of the heavy-lifting was presumably done  for the originall!

Key Features 

• Boost and Equalizer Effects Pedal
• Added Boost/OD switch - for selecting between 2  clipping options
  
  • Up: Clean boost for increased signal output
  • Down: Adds soft clipping for a transparent and musical low to mid gain overdrive
• Up to +20 dB of Clean Boost on tap in Boost mode
• 800 Hz +/- 6dB Tilt EQ Fulcrum Frequency
• 800 Hz +/- 10dB Mid EQ Center Frequency
• Top-mounted jacks and soft touch relay switching
• True Bypass
• Hand-made in Montreal, Canada
• Powered by a regular 9-18 V DC PSU (centre -, 2,1 mm, ~18 mA current draw)