Flower Pedals Announces the Poppy Dual Boost

September 30, 2020 · 3 sources

Flower Pedals announced the Poppy Dual Boost, a boost pedal that puts two independent boost circuits in a single 125B enclosure, each built on a different circuit topology¹. The Red side is an op-amp boost, the same circuit as the original mini Poppy pedal, while the White side is a new JFET design with a Baxandall tone circuit¹². Premier Guitar reported that the pedal was available for purchase on the Flower Pedals website and Reverb.com³.

The maker positioned the pedal as a way to get more tonal options out of a boost³. As Flower Pedals put it:

Each side has three controls, but they do different jobs²:

Delicious Audio described the Red side as "basically a mid-frequency parametric boost (i.e. you can select the frequency to boost)," while the White side's JFET transistors and Baxandall circuit aim for "a more tube amp-like tonal quality"². Flower Pedals describes the Red side as a clean, transparent boost with a sweepable frequency bump for surgical tone shaping, and the White side as a warmer, more amp-like feel¹. Both circuits use a boost control that is a bias control, which allows for as much clean headroom as possible².

A feature carried over from the maker's Lupine pedal: extra input and output jacks let each side sit at a different point in the signal chain, so one boost can drive the front of the amp while the other pushes a pedal later in the chain¹. If nothing is plugged into the auxiliary ins and outs, the two circuits are stacked on top of each other².

Delicious Audio summed up the pedal's uses: "Perfect for tone shaping, driving a tube amp or pedal, or just giving you that extra boost you needed for your solo."²