Is my Red Rooster working correctly?

[CitizenAudio]

So I been hearing clips of the Red Rooster and I totally fell in love with the sound. Now that I have one in my hand, I can't get the same kinds of sounds. Specifically, my Red Rooster is producing no "grit, fuzz, dirt, or any other similar type of sound." It literally is acting like a clean EQ booster. It's like the germanium part isn't really kicking in.

Before I messed with the trim pot or anything, I wanted to know if you guys suspect anything. The other worry is that mine is broken and I am atleast the 3rd owner of it. Most likely, I feel like maybe the trimpot was changed and so here is a picture. Please let me know what you guys suggest.

[Richard Groff]

What's you're guitar/pickup & amp combo? Is your amp pushing? Do you get clean sounds by turning down the volume knob or is it clean on the guitar's vol 10?

[CitizenAudio]

It is extremely clean with my guitar volume at 10 and even with the mid boost activated on my guitar. Amp is a Tone King Metropolitan. Guitar is S/S/S strat.

Just tried messing with the trimpots and turning it clockwise I get nothing but more cleans. Turning it counter clockwise produces this awful crackling sound so looks like the trimpot was fine where it was at.

This is very odd.

[CitizenAudio]

Now, One thing that I assumed with this pedal was that it had an inherent fuzz to it but if it is just straight up treble booster than everything is fine. The clip on the Red Rooster page was amazing though but it could be the red rooster pushing whatever amp was used.

Sorry I am a noob.

[kb892]

I know mine doesn't break up much at all with a Les Paul so it's basically a treble booster for slammin your amp into overdrive... or fuzz pedal into overdrive or volume boosting EQ enhancing your pedals or.... I use it for lots of things but not a lot of inherent breakup in mine.

[The Captain]

The Rooster will only boost what you already have. For example if I run a Rooster into my WEM amp I get no overdrive qualities until my amp is already cooking, in other words at high volume. Into an already broken up Marshall it pushes the amp's OD tone over the edge giving mucho tasty overdrive/distortion tones.

The Rooster is a booster not an overdrive. The break up the Rooster will give you is limited to the amp and guitar you are using. Clean guitar and amp = clean boost tone. Gainy guitar and amp = gainy overdrive tone. The idea is that the Rooster becomes part of the amps ability to drive so its really not a pedal that will give you a set in stone overdrive tone regardless of what and where you use it.

Did you put the trimmer back to how it was set?

[molokaio]

yeah!
I don't have a rooster yet, but have another treble booster... works best if you use your dirt channel just before break up for your fat cleans and then sbbbbbaaaaaam... slam the rooster in for some anger.
On your clean channle it's most likely just going to raise your volume...
have fun... ;)

[smogfalls]

Into an already broken up Marshall it pushes the amp's OD tone over the edge giving mucho tasty overdrive/distortion tones.

AMEN Brotha! Yeah, it sounds totally shmazing through my Marshall Jube set to a very gritty clean... then slamming it with the rooster with the range at 10 o'clock and the boost at around 2 o'clock. Incredible lead tones. Seems to work best with my Les Paul with PAFs.

Although, I did do a few clips of the Rooster with my Deluxe Reverb amp and a Strat, Casino and Les Paul. You've probably already heard them, but if not, check them out, the threads contain all the details on how I got those tones. (use an attenuator). Here are the links to said threads...

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1674

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1652

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1801

Cheers,
Xan :)

[CitizenAudio]

What amp was used on the main page of the Red Rooster.

I am going to buy a new amp :)

Thanks for clearing everything up. My red rooster shines on the 2nd gain channel of my current amp. I am in the works of getting another amp

[smogfalls]

This is what it says about that clip on the main Rooster page...

Recorded with a "very simple set up of a Gibson Les Paul, tweed Fender Pro Junior(set clean)... mic'd with an SM57 in to cool edit(where I added some touches of room reverb here and there)"