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USED Pettyjohn Electronics Lift Buffer/Boost

The LIFT is a fabulous tone tool with high quality, studio-grade parts that can fit anywhere on your board. Here are a few suggestions to help you discover how you can put your LIFT to use.

The Cornerstone: Buffers, Boost and EQ; these are the foundations for getting a firm grip of your tone. How long is that cable running from your guitar to your board? If you said longer than 18’ you have a problem and that problem is called “tone suck”. We all love being able to walk across the stage to rock out with the bass player, keyboard player or even the other guitarist but have you ever considered what a cable that length does to your signal? Placing the LIFT at the very beginning of your signal chain is a great to bring the life back into your tone. The foot switchable boost is also perfect for pulling every last bit of energy and punch out of your drive/dist/fuzz pedals when it is slamming into the front end of them. Is the initial tone from your guitar to squishy, muddy or muted? Use the onboard active EQ to dial in the exact attack and character you need to rock.

The Polisher: The LIFT is perfect at the end of your signal chain, too. Don’t forget the basis of the LIFT is to be a buffer. A lot of pedals stacked up adds a good amount of cable length/extra signal path that can weaken your tone and response. Sure all those pedals can add a world of different nature to your tone but they can also suck it at the same time. Putting the LIFT at the end of your signal chain (yes, even after your delays and reverbs) will tighten up your overall tone. Don’t forget the LIFT has an onboard active EQ that runs from 20Hz-20kHz so you won’t cut out any frequencies your signal is producing. In fact, you will probably get more out of your signal chain. Just ask Stephen, he runs

This is a USED pedal in EXCELLENT condition. If you have any questions, feel free to stop by or give us a call any time.