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boost, boost tiger, booster, clean, tiger -

At long last!  Our simple, highly-effective, and very powerful full range clean boost, the Boost Tiger (discontinued late 2014), factory schematic is now available for your use, mis-use and enjoyment. Let's not kid ourselves here, this isn't a particularly "special" or "novel" design; it is however, VERY good at what it is designed to do, and if you look closely, you'll see a few really nice, dare I say "elegant" design practices that can be applied to any number of audio circuits.  So, without further ado, I give you the original Boost Tiger factory schematic. This circuit and schematic is NOT...

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animals, cats, charity, dogs, pixie, project, thunderclaw -

Tremendous news everybody!! All 50 ThunderClaw pedals for the Pixie Project sold by 10:47pm Oct. 30, 2014!! This is wonderful news and on behalf of the Pixie Project, we thank you!  We still have to pull reports and push buttons on calculators to determine the total raised, but I have a feeling it will be felt by all involved (and to be involved) with the Pixie Project. Special thanks to Jesse L. who kicked in at the top level of $400.  Dude, the world needs more people like you.  Next time you're in Portland, beers are on me personally.But it...

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2013, black, expert, free, friends, funny, portland, research, secret, t-shirt -

Day 1 ----------- 9:02 a.m. - Kirk arrives at Jack's house and is happy to find that he has recovered from the malaria he was suffering from the previous two days.   930 a.m. - We pick up Justin and quickly hit the road. Music Choice: Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks   10:13 a.m. - We stop for coffee at a drive-thru Starbucks. Justin says "fuck starbucks" and we promptly drive him to a drive-thru Dutch Bros. We talk about the tattoo artist who has the dick tattoo market locked down. Not tattooing on a dick...but tattooing dicks...

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Boost tiger, video -

The Boost Tiger as demo'd by Curtis Kent!

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benefit, cancer, charity, children, fundraiser, research, st jude -

 We've been working with our good friends at Blakemore Effects on a fundraiser for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.  We've donated one of every pedal we make, including the SuperMoon, TunnelWorm, Eterna, DoubleChorus and the Boost Tiger! To make it easy on  ya, we made a video.  Dig it, and visit Circuits to Cure Cancer to learn more about who's who, what's what, and just how you can do yo thang:

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