BOSS LMB-3 limiter / compressor /enhancer - free postage - *SOLD* £55 Witney , West Oxfordshire

[fleabag]

BOSS LMB-3 in great condition. Giving up my whole pedal board for lighter travel. Other pedals for sale.

Original box / blurb

Postage included

Review from that pedal tester on Talkbass

 

Boss LMB-3: This workhorse classic from Boss gets overlooked far too often. Sometimes because it's a Boss, and sometimes because it says "Limiter" in the name. In reality it is one of the most reliable and versatile compressors in its price range.
 
The first thing to clear up is the "limiter" label. A limiter is just a compressor with a very high ratio, and usually with the threshold set high so only the taller peaks are affected. The LMB-3 can be used that way, but its ratio can be adjusted anywhere from 1:1 (a clean uncompressed boost) through light to medium smoothing and squeezing (e.g. 2:1 to 8:1), all the way up to infinity:1 hard peak limiting. So it actually covers a much wider range of dynamic response than most pedals labeled "compressor". And the threshold knob covers a decent range, allowing it to affect just as much of your signal as you want. The predecessor of this pedal, the LM-2B, was more accurately called a limiter due to having a fixed very high ratio.
 
The tone of this pedal is very clean and dry. It's not a "fattening" effect, aside from the inherent results of compression.
 Boss sometimes gets a bad rap for its buffered bypass switching, in this case there is no problem--the bypass is transparent, unity gain, with perfectly flat frequency response.
 
The fact is it sounds pretty good and does its job like a champ, and you can find one used for very cheap any day of the week, so it's a great value. It's also hard to find any other pedal in this price range that works so well as a peak limiter, for aggro playing, slapping, or peaks from an envelope filter. I would not hesitate to use one on a pro gig, as long as the inherent EQ shaping is suitable.

 

 

 

Edited July 30, 2023 by fleabag

[AndyTravis]

How do. I’ll take this little chimpanzee please

[fleabag]

The primate is yours then, Andy

[fleabag]

SOLD