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From DingoTone:

The Dingotone HZD Boost pedal is the world’s best clean booster. Period.

It will give you clean boost and transparent EQ – it absolutely will not mess with your tone.

The HZD is a reinvention of the concept behind the vintage Boss FA-1 FET amplifier**. It is not a “clone”. It is far superior.

CONTROLS:

Boost – from zero up to about 30dB of boost.
High and Low EQ – give maximum control allowing you to shape the tone to your needs.
TRUE BYPASS: The HZD has proper (3PDT) True Bypass. We have worked hard to minimise the inevitable true bypass clicking.

PREMIUM COMPONENTS: The HZD is constructed from premium components and we hand measure and select components where needed.

EXTERNAL POWER UP TO 24VDC: The HZD operates from internal battery or external DC power (standard “center negative”).

The amount of boost can be increased by powering the pedal with an external supply up to 24VDC. Higher supply voltage gives more headroom before break-up, which allows a boost of up to 30dB (depending on your rig).

Current draw is less than 10mA so it won’t load down your power supply and an alkaline battery lasts 20+ hours.

PEDALBOARD FRIENDLY: The HZD comes in our pedal-board friendly small enclosure (approx. 4½ by 2½ inches).

What does it sound like?

The HZD adds nothing but clean boost and transparent EQ until you run out of headroom – about 7V peak-to-peak output with a 9V supply. Pushed out of the clean region, the HZD breaks up with traditional “4558” opamp distortion.

The tone stack allows you to dial in anything you need – from subtle tweaking of the tone, to searing treble, to huge bass, to cut bass, to scooped mids, to mid-hump. Or leave the EQ at noon and the response is flat with a hint of highs.

What can it be used for?
The HZD is a “milky smooth” clean booster that absolutely will not mess with your tone.

If you have a tube amp and single coil pickups, place the HZD first in line and you can expect an increase in crunch, an increase in punch/quack, and improved highs and note definition.

If you have a tube amp and humbuckers, place the HZD first in line and you can expect an increase in crunch and “growl”, plus improved highs and possible increase in note definition.

Place the HZD just in front of your tube amp to overdrive the input tube and get some tasty crunch out of the amp!

A number of HZD users have their HZD set to equalize guitar volume for guitar changes – when you swap from your Les Paul to your Strat kick on the HZD. Saves you from messing with your amp controls mid-flight.

And the HZD is ideal for tweaking your EQ in new venues without having to mess with your amp or your sound engineer’s settings.

The HZD is perfect for any genre of music at all…

How was the tone for this pedal developed?
Years ago we built some clones of the old Boss FA-1 belt-pack FET amp (as used by The Edge from U2). They were excellent pedals, but didn’t give everything we wanted.

So we spent two years reinventing the concept and have produced a pedal that far surpasses the old FA-1.

The re-invention was from the ground up. We covered everything from opamps (the JRC4558 sounds best), to minimisation of stray capacitance (the cable layout in the pedal is critical), to capacitor selection (we use Italian metallized polyester coupling caps), to resistor selection (we use hand-matched 1% metal film for critical parts of the circuit)… to RF rejection… to re-running the mathematics around the tone-stack and updating it… and the list goes on.

This is vintage clean boost – reinvented! We love this pedal!

What will this pedal do for you?
Tone: Many users comment that it “makes my amp come alive”. Many users leave their HZD permanently on. HZD pedals are in use in live venues, studios, and basements around the world.

Flexibility: manage your tone as you change guitars, amps, and venues.

Value: You can’t beat the value. You receive a hand-made North American pedal for an excellent price!

Quality and reliability: Every pedal passes over twenty quality tests before it is shipped. We haven’t had a warranty claim in over three years. Dingotone pedals stay on your pedal board – where they belong!