Innovating when it comes to “basic” effects has become difficult and therefore rare but Maxon has just released the DB10, a pedal based on a pretty cool concept: they have put two booster pedals into one compact enclosure and each booster has its own input and output connectors.

The “clean” booster side has a flat response and gives you 20dB of boost without altering the tone while the other one, the “vintage” side, has highs slightly rolled off and a mid range boost.

It means that you can place a distortion pedal after the vintage side in order to give it a kick but before the “flat” booster which becomes your “turn me up for solos” side.