Apalachicola Tone Booster

  The Apalachicola Tone Booster is a pristine, high-headroom boost pedal, a powerful and deep tone shaper, and a high fidelity, saturated overdrive all in one. Inspired by the venerable Korg TNB-1, it's just as useful as an always-on preamp at the beginning of a pedal chain, an always-on preamp at the end of the chain before an amp, or as an always-on preamp in place of an amp for running into a DI box or a power amplifier. And that's just the clean mode. The mode switch adds silicon (up) or germanium (down) clipping diodes for two flavors of overdrive*. Paired with the amp-like TMB tone stack, the Apalachicola can serve as a "dirty channel" preamp, a dirty booster, or a fantastic overdrive that can sit anywhere in on a pedalboard.  Powered by 27V from an internal charge pump, the Apalachicola is clean and clear and pretty dang loud. That asterisk (*) in the preceding paragraph is there because the gain knob is very powerful and will drive the op-amp to the rails, turning the clean mod