About the greenizer from tom'sline - how to use the boost mode

I was tweaking a bit on my pedals, tryng to understand how they color the sound.

How a tube screamer works is pretty obvious, but the greenizer has that switch into boost mode that i did not fully understand until today. If you just switch from your TS setting it does not works well.

2 reasons.

First: like many green clones, the greenizer need the volume to be set at at least 1 o'clock  to get unity gain. In boost mode this is way too much. Noon is is sweet spot.

Second: the tone control is high passive, so to get a trasparent tone at low levels you need to crank it to the max. Then as with every gain control you compensate the high frequencies of the rise of the gain by rolling off. Noon is the extreme left limit in my opinion.

So, switch in boost position, volume at noon, tone at max and just a tiny tiny bit of gain you are in fully transparent position. Rise another tiny bit the gain and you are getting that kick without driving the sound to the overdrive. The brakup zone. Very nice. I think this is exactly what many player search in a transparent booster. Over there you are in the overdrive territory, but without the colors of the TS. However, extreme settings will not be so easy and nice.