Fryer Treble Booster Deluxe Brian May TDB1-462 2014 - Purple

Fryer Australia Treble Booster Deluxe “Brian May” TDB1-462

Very rare with “ Brian May Signature” print at the pedal .

Now dont have the sign of Brian and this pedal it’s a collector’s piece .

Pristine like new from our Collection

TB Deluxe 2014 redesign:
TB Deluxe background:

With the development of the Treble Booster Super pedal in 2014, I had found a new transistor that to be honest I wished I had known about back in 2007 when I first designed the TB Deluxe and TB Plus. Both these pedals use the BC239C transistor which gave me the output that I was looking for (considerably more powerful and with more bottom end  than the TB Touring’s BC182L transistor), but both the Deluxe and Plus designs required some components added to the circuit to overcome the slightly hard and brash sounding characteristic of the BC239C.

The TB Deluxe has been a wonderful sounding pedal since 2007-8, but with the arrival of the new transistor and some circuit changes to suit it I have found something a little extra tonally for the Deluxe that I hope people will love just as much as the previous design. To be honest there is not a great deal between the two – but I feel there is enough to make the change worthwhile.

On 25th August 2014 I spoke to Brian in Sydney about the new TB Super and about my design changes to the TB Deluxe. At first Brian said ‘oh…which one is that?’ which surprised me at first but I half expected because the Deluxe was never really designed for Brian’s use and I suspected that he had never used it either in recording or live. After I reminded Brian about which treble booster the Deluxe was, he said that the only time he could remember using the pedal was in Holland a year or two back when he borrowed someone’s gear at a live performance.

(This was later confirmed by Gerben van Dooremaal). Using Gerben’s AC30s and attenuators at less than full amp volume, the Treble Booster Touring pedal that Brian first plugged in just didn’t have enough sustain and fullness to give Brian the sound that he was used to. So Gerben whipped out the lilac Deluxe and this did the job for Brian.

See Gerben’s letter Mon 25 April 2011 to Brian’s website:

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Brian liked my idea of what I had designed for the new 2014 Deluxe version and gave me the go ahead, and said that he would also try the TB Super at the Queen + AL soundcheck in the following days in Sydney. The schedule has been busy for both of us since then and soon I’ll be chatting about these and other things with Brian.

In late 2007 I designed the Treble Booster Deluxe with a particular purpose in mind: to achieve the fatter sounding Brian May late 1970s sounds when using the Red Special guitar and Vox AC30 amps at lower amp volume levels and when using attenuators such as Marshall, Mango, Weber, THD Hotplate etc which tend to reduce sustain and fullness at lower amp volume levels.

In the middle 2000s I had been experimenting with treble booster designs for my own use which were more powerful and fatter sounding than the standard Treble Booster Touring pedal. On a couple of occasions Brian had asked me if it was possible to get a little more output level from the standard treble booster, but for the majority of the time Brian was perfectly happy with the amount of boost level and balance of trebles to bottom end produced by his TB Touring pedal. (In early 2006 I made several of the TB Touring for Brian’s on stage use in mini strap mounted version for the Sennheiser wireless system).

The Treble Booster Deluxe was therefore not designed for Brian’s use but for the many Red Special players who like myself play at much lower amp levels than a flat out full volume AC30, and often at home using speaker attenuators at lower volume levels. Players in those situations are helped by the extra boost level, sustain and fullness of sound from the Deluxe. It won’t come as a surprise to hear that my own playing is not nearly as precise or fluid as Brian’s and I found that the Treble Booster Deluxe offered something that was perfect for me and I hoped that many other people found a similar use for the Deluxe.

It also became clear to me that the TB Deluxe would be a very useful pedal for guitarists using other instruments like Gibson Les Pauls through Vox AC30s and amplifiers like Marshalls and Fenders.