PhilX mentioned this in one interview video. It's counter intuitive to what you use an attenuator for, e.g. taking your volume down. If you think about it, if you want a boost, it should be ideally as last as possible in your signal. It wouldn't drive the input of the next stage and the clipping effect this may possibly cause will not go through more amplification stages.
So you put a clean boost as the last pedal in your pedal board. So some guys go ahead and put that boost further down the chain, e.g. effects loop or power amp input. The idea now is that you already have the power stage where you want it, and output clipping is part of your sound, maybe you can preserve that. Is there any way to maintain that as transparently as possible and have a boost that preserves the tone, fell, and dynamics? Perhaps you could set an attenuator down to let's say -6db or -9db and have that as your main sound, then remove that from the chain, and you get full output from the amp going into your speakers.
Doable? Anyone doing this? The problem I think is the hookup you'll be doing to achive this. For example, if you make it footswitchable, you'll be running speaker wires now. From the amp, to the switch, back to the speakers. Parallel wires.
