I'm looking to get one to beef up my lead tone from my laney tfx320. Any recomendations? I've been checking out ibanez ts9's on ebay after a chap said they were rather splendid.

I like boss, for solo boosts, but I've heard of dudes using an actual boost pedal. It boosts your signal 10 or 20 dbs. That's for solo applications I know, but Buddah makes a kick ass pedal w/12ax7's that just sounds heavenly. I forget the name. It's blue, It's not cheap (acouple hundred), but you get what you pay for w/this. Do yourself a favor & play a couple of them at the store. The Ibanez tube screamer I recall used to melt faces. Good Luck.

mmmm effect pedals are so easy to build that i really don't like to pay so much that they cost.

and ibanez tube screamer 8, 9, 10 .... have minimum differences and you can upgrade it. i prefer sonic distortion 9 and mxr distortion +

fancy bulding me a delay pedal then?

the boss ds-1 is one of my personal favorites... but the ibanez tube screamers do melt faces... so much fun

easy to build?............where does one find this information on building one's own effect pedals?

http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Li ... nners.html

SOME pedals can be easy to build... I.E. Distortion...

but something modulating, like a delay pedal is getting just a bit more complex

thanks....very cool

it depends if you do actually want a new type of distortion or just a bit of a beef up.

An overdrive pedal would do the job, but so would an EQ pedal. Boosting your mids can really help your tone to cut through in a band situation.

I like the BOSS OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion.

http://www.bossus.com/index.asp?pg=1&tmp=7

There are audio samples on there too.

I like MXR.
It sounds vintage.

she tells the truth!

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http://www.runoffgroove.com
http://www.tonepad.com/
http://www.geofex.com

and this one can supply any components you need:
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you only need to buy one iron soldering pencil (10 - 15 watt works better then 30 or 40 watt)
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you spelt the first link wrong.

http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/v2/

there ya go.

I like to use a VooDoo Lab Sparkle Drive pedal along with the natural overdrive of my amp, for my main rhythm sound. On metal tunes, I'll turn off the Sparkle Drive and kick in a Boss Metal Zone instead.

For leads, I have a MXR 6 band EQ in the effects loop of my amp. I just set all of the sliders up to +8 or +10 dB and kick it on for instant in-yo-face-here's-my-weeedle-deeedle-lead-mo f'ers.

Placing the boost in the loop instead of in front of the preamp boosts my existing tone and doesn't add additional distortion that tends to muddy the overall sound.

I run an Ibanez TS9 for a compression-lead boost.. Lvl on 10, Gain @ 9 o'clock, Tone on zero..

Running a pedal in front of the amp like this gets you some more compression and can 'tighten' up some amp gain.. Mainly due to to most of the over-drive pedals on the market haveing a bass cut and mid/high boost.

The old "orange box", BOSS DS-1 RULES ALL!!! Nuff said...X

You can never go wrong with any of the ibanez tube screamers. I don't notice much difference in the sound of any of them. My rig is a tri-axis and 2:90 so i don't really use and of those pedals on stage but goofing on studio stuff they are fun to play with. I just never noticed much sound difference. I use a TS-7. It was cheap and works just dandy.

i think mxr is pretty good one?

its a fuckin' awesome one.

The old classic Boss DS-1 is the king of distortion pedals

though i also have a ibanez tube screamer which is bloody awesome sounding though the construction is knowhere near as good as the boss pedals