Okay, so the RC booster, it's been in your pedal board for many years. What was the initial attraction to this pedal and how does it complement your tone? Well, first of all, it's really transparent. That's the thing I care about the most. I just want more from the amp, but I don't want color, because the color comes from the guitar and the amp. And the RC booster doesn't really have a sound of its own, it just boosts what's there. And before that existed, I don't think there was anything that I was happy with. I was using a bunch of different things. Lots of stuff. I was trying to use a tube screamer, because that has about the same amount of gain, but it's got a huge mid-range peak, which I didn't like, and especially for the treble pickup. And I tried combining that with the Voodoo One. So I'd put the tube screamer into the Voodoo One, and the Voodoo One being a very scooped pedal would kind of get rid of the tube screamer's mid-range hump. And that's what I used mainly on the well to the bone album, because there wasn't an RC booster back then. When this came along, I didn't have to use the combination of those two pedals anymore. I could just use one pedal, and I just love the sound of it. It's killer, because it has treble and bass knobs on it, which lets you... I like to take a little bit of the bass out, so that the chords are cleaner and aren't muddy. And that also helps actually with the solos, too, with the gain. So that leads me into my next question, which is, a lot of guys, some guys leave the boost on all the time, and then add to it, and then some guys use the boost just for solos. How do you use this boost? Well, I just have it on when I'm using it by itself. In other words, for a boosted tone, which is more like a blues lead sound, it's on. And then if I want a more gainy type of legato, horn-like sound, I use another distortion pedal and turn the RC booster off. Right? I don't combine pedals, because it's a little noisy for me. Yeah, there's a little too much hiss when I combine pedals. The only time I would do it is I would combine the RC booster with my distortion pedal to just get a completely over-the-top nuts haywire out of control sound. Yeah, and that's just to make noise. Right, okay. Do you find that with the knobs, you sound like at 12 o'clock, or do they gain in the volume and the treble and the bass at different areas? They're different areas, yeah, just depends on the pedal. Like I set the, because the new RC booster, the two channel one is a completely different animal than the first one. You set the two gain knobs so that you get a good lead sound and a good clean sound when you switch between channels. Okay. Yeah, so I would set that up a little bit differently, though the bass and treble knobs are pretty much the same on both, yeah. So let's talk about the new one. Did you have a lot of input on how it was designed, or did you kind of say, hey, if I need this, if you guys are... I basically just asked Kyoshi to make an RC booster with two different gain stages, because normally, as most guys do, that play one channel amps, you would use your boost pedal with your guitar up pretty high to get a lead sound and then turn the guitar down to play chords. And what I was finding is that the RC booster cleans up really nice when you turn down to play chords more than most boost pedals, but I was having to turn down my guitar too far to get it clean, right? And by the time I got it completely clean, it was too soft. The volume was too soft, and I'd have to turn up my volume, my master volume overall. With the new pedal, I can leave my guitar pretty much where it is. I can leave it on around nine for solos, turn it down to about seven or eight for chords, and the chord sound is much bigger, much cleaner. There's not as much treble loss, and everything just sounds better. Right, right. Now, the new pedal, if you had a chance to use it, does it work well with other pedals as well in your pedal board? Well, I don't combine pedals, but it's matched tonally really well to the rest of my pedals as far as the treble. I'm able to get the treble and bass of all my pedals in the same range, so that when I hit one pedal as opposed to another one, it doesn't super increase in the brightness or the bass, except for the fuzz factory. The fuzz factory just has a ton of bass, so as soon as you turn it on, it's like all this low end, but that's just the nature of that pedal. And I guess I was thinking about it, and maybe your philosophy is you kind of pummel the front end of the amp, and that kind of keeps preserving the amp's tone. A lot of people ask me, you know, if you want to clean your tone, why don't you just turn off the pedal? Well, the reason is because to really use a pedal, I think like the RC booster, the volume needs to be all the way up. It really needs to kick the front end of the preamp of the amp. And yeah, so if you're doing that and then you turn the pedal off, you've got nothing. The difference between volume is just huge. So I understand now, like, so you pummel that, but then you cut back on your volume and then you kind of clean up your tone a little. Yeah, and I've got a volume in the effects loop of the amp, one of those SVC pedals. So I'm using the SVC pedal in the effects loop to control my master volume without affecting the gain. And then I'm using the guitar to set the gain, how much or how little gain there is. So I've got like two controls on the guitar for the gain and on the floor for the overall volume. And I like that because, you know, the music we're playing is pretty dynamic. So there's a lot of times I have to play with a pretty over driven tone, but not a really loud volume. So I can turn my guitar up and then turn the volume down. Or if I want a super clean, loud clean sound, I'll just jack the volume all the way up on the floor and turn my guitar down and get a really super clean sound. Or I can even turn the pedal off completely if I want a very, very clean guitar sound. Like sometimes I use multi-tap delays to make that kind of a wholesome, type of swells. You know, and that sound actually sounds better with no pedal at all. Just completely clean. And then I can just jack the volume on the floor all the way up for that sound. As far as like what kind of amp you think this pedal is going to work well with, would you say like mostly a clean amp or a fender-y style or any type of amp? Well, any amp really, but it needs to be set a little bit crunchy. Pedals don't sound very good when the amp is completely clean, but it sounds a little thin. You need the amp tubes to be working a little bit. It's really like probably about 25% from the amp and 75% from the pedal. If the amp is completely clean, then it just doesn't feel right. The amp's not working hard enough. So if the amp's crunchy and let the pedal do the rest, that seems to be the fattest sound to me. Great. Great.