Please note that I said "clean amp". According to the manual, "the FX51 Juice Box is designed to add the right amount of distortion to a guitar
when it is already running into a distorted amplifier".
As I wrote above, I wish I could recall what amp I was using, because I don't recall it being very distorted before I stepped on the Juice Box.
That must have been one hot amp!
Seeing how I've basically left the Juicer to sit in its Box for the better part of the last four years, it's obvious I couldn't find the right situation
for the box.
That changed earlier tonight. Since I was in a genuine Pedal Frenzy, plugging into pedals at will, I decided to give the Juice Box another chance.
My Princeton amp is as clean an amp as you'll ever find. Because it's so clean, it's great for testing out distortion/overdrive pedals.
On its own, the Juice Box sounded anemic. So I decided to use it as a boost for other pedals. Before the night was through, I pulled out the BOSS DS-1, DF-2 (Super Feedbacker),, SD-1, MD-2,
and finally the DOD FX 52 (Classic Fuzz).
In every case, the Box actually helped improve every pedal. Keep in mind it has four controls: SWEET (output), PULP (Low EQ), TANG (High EQ), and JUICE (Gain).
Many of the other pedals only have a single tone control. I found that if I boosted the PULP, and rolled back the TANG,
I got a deeper richer tone - yes, even from the bottom heavy Mega Distortion! While the SWEET control was only good to match the original level,
I found that cranking up the Juice made a great difference. For the most "basic" BOSS pedals (DS-1, DF-2, SD-1), I cranked each up to the maximum amount of gain,
and then used the Juice Box to go even further.
