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I can't believe how many times this has come up on here. Guys, people have been using tubescreamers for decades. Boosting an amp with an overdrive pedal is not that complicated. Everyone should know how it works by now.

 

1. Clean boosts and OD pedals aren't the same thing. Clean boosts are not supposed to color the signal. They are just supposed to raise the volume of the signal coming from your guitar. They are relatively CLEAN... hence the name.....

 

2. If you play any form of fast paced or percussive metal and don't already use a tubescreamer or similar OD of some sort, you're really missing out and will wonder why you didn't use one earlier. Tubescreamers cut bass before hitting the preamp + add a tiny bit of compression. The signal going into and being distorted by your amp is more narrow and focused. The result is a more lively, cleaner, tighter, faster responding guitar tone.

 

Seriously, this info is all over the internet... posted over and over again on countless forums, interviews with bands & producers, recording articles, etc.

 

If you just want to get a cheap pedal to try out, get a used bad monkey, ibanez tubescreamer, or maybe an sd1 (although it's not identical to a tubescreamer). If you're serious about it and know you'll keep it and make use of it, get something like a Maxon OD808, OD9, or my favorite the OD820.

 

Most of the fancy ODs like the Klon, OCD, various Xotic pedals, etc. are meant mainly for blues and rock players to use into a clean or low gain amp as their primary means of distortion. Metal players aren't using tubescreamers in the same way...

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I can't believe how many times this has come up on here. Guys, people have been using tubescreamers for decades. Boosting an amp with an overdrive pedal is not that complicated. Everyone should know how it works by now.


1. Clean boosts and OD pedals aren't the same thing. Clean boosts are not supposed to color the signal. They are just supposed to raise the volume of the signal coming from your guitar. They are relatively CLEAN... hence the name.....


2. If you play any form of fast paced or percussive metal and don't already use a tubescreamer or similar OD of some sort, you're really missing out and will wonder why you didn't use one earlier. Tubescreamers cut bass before hitting the preamp + add a tiny bit of compression. The signal going into and being distorted by your amp is more narrow and focused. The result is a more lively, cleaner, tighter, faster responding guitar tone.


Seriously, this info is all over the internet... posted over and over again on countless forums, interviews with bands & producers, recording articles, etc.


If you just want to get a cheap pedal to try out, get a used bad monkey, ibanez tubescreamer, or maybe an sd1 (although it's not identical to a tubescreamer). If you're serious about it and know you'll keep it and make use of it, get something like a Maxon OD808, OD9, or my favorite the OD820.


Most of the fancy ODs like the Klon, OCD, various Xotic pedals, etc. are meant mainly for blues and rock players to use into a clean or low gain amp as their primary means of distortion. Metal players aren't using tubescreamers in the same way...

 

 

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I use a clean boost in the form of an MXR 10 band eq, and it's awesome...definitely an integral part of my rig

For an OD boost I'd second the Bad Monkey, I've tried a handful of others, including some pricier models, and I just really dig the Bad Monkey's sound...

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I really need something to boost a single channel, no-fx loop amp for solos. I have a bad monkey, and it's definitely good at increasing saturation and coloring my overdrive tone, but not too great for a solo boost. I'm wondering what can work as a solo/volume boost in the front of an amp. Maybe it's just not possible, but how did they do it back in the day?

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If you go with a tubescreamer type boost, I havent heard anything better than the hardwire cm-2 OD. IMO, I couldnt tell the difference between the bad monkey and the maxon od808. The od9 sounds a bit better. But the hardwire blows them all away. (except this modded old ass tubescreamer that laura let me borrow...that thing was incredible). I have learned, however, that I have absolutely no use for an overdrive pedal in my rig lol.

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Are there any other good pedals that do both TS and clean boosts? I've heard some really nice results from both...and I would still prefer something with bass and treble controlls.

 

 

The hardwire has bass and treble controls, and you can tweak it to sound like a clean boost or a TS type boost.

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you should check out the rc booster (you will probably leave it on all the time like I do), it just makes your amp sound better. I also have a Fulldrive 2, a Keeley modded blues driver, and an OCD on my pedalboard. They are set to different types of overdrive from vintage to modern. My amp is either a headstrong lil king head into a bogner OS 2x12 or a fender PRRI 1x10 with NOS tubes and a weber speaker upgrade. Just a good old school ACDC type rock sound in a low wattage package - mic it up through the pa and it sounds awesome.....

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Gain low, level high. It's really quite simple.

 

 

Well the one person said thier is a difference between a clean boost pedal and a TS type boost pedal, then a different person said you can make a TS type pedal into a clean boost pedal:idk: I do know the gain has to be low on the pedal for boosting a high gain amp.

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