The AnalogMan Beano Boost is an Analog Man boost pedal, currently around $233. Close alternatives include the Knight Audio Technologies Kat-STB and the Colorsound Power Boost. It pairs well with the Marshall Bluesbreaker and the Port City Pearl 50.

AnalogMan Beano Boost

Analog Man · pedal

The Analog Man Beano Boost is a boutique reimagining of the classic Dallas Rangemaster treble booster, built around a hand-selected germanium transistor for the bright, raw, open, and honky midrange push that defined 1960s British blues-rock guitar tone. It gets its name from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers 'Beano' album, on which Eric Clapton used a Rangemaster to get his famous cutting, singing lead tone, and the same circuit lineage was used by Brian May and Marc Bolan. A three-way switch selects between the original treble-boost voicing, a punchier mid-boost voicing, and a fuller, more full-range boost, letting players tailor the frequency emphasis rather than being locked into one fixed voicing. Rather than adding gain the way a modern overdrive does, it pushes the front end of an amp into natural tube breakup, adding edge and cut without heavy coloration, and responds well to guitar volume-knob changes. Available in full-size and compact Mini versions with identical circuitry. It suits blues-rock and classic-rock players chasing an authentic, bright, cutting British treble-boost tone rather than a modern mid-scooped overdrive voicing.

  • boost
  • treble
  • bright
  • raw
  • honky
  • british
  • germanium
  • transistor

Good for

  • Busking
  • Live

Price updated Aug 27, 2026

Genres the AnalogMan Beano Boost is commonly used in

  • Rock
  • Classic Rock
  • Blues Rock
  • Alternative
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  • Blues
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  • Indie Rock
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Amps that pair well with the AnalogMan Beano Boost

Pedals that stack with the AnalogMan Beano Boost

Electro-Harmonix Hot Wax

Electro-Harmonix

16% match
$116.79via Reverb

Hot Wax's transparent, stackable drive gives the Beano Boost's raw, honky treble lift a fuller gain stage.

ZVEX Fuzz Factory

Zvex

16% match
$199via Reverb

Keep the Fuzz Factory's gated germanium fuzz ahead of the Beano Boost so the treble lift still shapes a clean signal before the gate chops it up.

Hughes & Kettner Tube Rotosphere MKII The Analog Leslie Simulator

pedal

14% match

Run the Rotosphere's Leslie-style swirl after the Beano Boost's own raw treble lift settles, so the modulation moves a defined tone.

Ashdown Velvet Compressor

Ashdown

12% match
$150.07via Reverb

Run the Velvet Compressor ahead of the Beano Boost for even attack and decay before the honky treble lift kicks in.

Caroline Guitar Company Kilobyte

Caroline Guitar Company

9% match
$199via Reverb

Keep the Kilobyte's digital echoes trailing after the Beano Boost's raw, honky treble lift, not before, or the delay repeats an unshaped signal. — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Strymon TimeLine

Strymon

9% match

Keep TimeLine's studio-grade digital delay trailing after the Beano Boost's raw, honky treble lift, not before, or the repeats inherit an unshaped tone. — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

NUX XTC Overdrive

Nux

tonal match

NUX XTC Overdrive layers high gain onto an already mid-forward signal

Caline CP-31 Hot Spice (Black)

Caline

tonal match
$52.99via Reverb

Run mid-forward into Caline CP-31 Hot Spice (Black) for more high gain on top

Cheaper alternatives

Boutique & premium upgrades

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Questions people ask

What are good alternatives to the AnalogMan Beano Boost?+

The closest matches in character are the Knight Audio Technologies Kat-STB, the Colorsound Power Boost, the Dallas Tuxedo Treble Booster. Budget picks: J. Rockett Archer, Catalinbread Super Chili Picoso, Suhr Brighton Treble Booster. Boutique upgrades: Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster, Analog Man King of Tone, Browne Amplification Carbon.

What pairs well with the AnalogMan Beano Boost?+

Strong matches from rig and tone-complementarity evidence: Marshall Bluesbreaker, Port City Pearl 50, Friedman BE-Mini Head — Into the Bluesbreaker's natural, compressed tube breakup, the Beano Boost's raw, honky treble lift pushes real vintage grit..

How much does the AnalogMan Beano Boost cost?+

Around $233 (live listing price, updated Aug 27, 2026).

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