My booster is integrated with the bike. Booster should not create a negative but less fade out from power absorb in the frame. The brake needs all things perfectly setup to get it to bite like crazy. Pad alignment, strength in the rear chain stay, booster, perfect bleed, longer brake leaver, clean grind more conditioned than deep, true wheel and some phats. Weather conditions can effect the brake bite after cleaning and drying so it's allways worth cleaning the surface of the pads and recondition rim with a light grind.