Advise for volume boost in fx loop.

[nevusofota]

What pedal can I put in the effects loop of my 5153 50 to boost the volume of my clean channel only without increasing white noise and hiss. So far I have tried a ge-7, boss comp and an mxr custom comp. All were very noisy. Any ideas?

 

[rlord1974]

Try a true clean boost pedal, like the CAE/MXR line driver, Whirlwind The Bomb or Xotic RC boost (amongst others).

I would put it as the last pedal in the loop chain as well.

 

[thenine]

Xotic EP boost

 

[Bishop5150]

TC Electronics Spark Mini Boost.

 

[Stradazone]

I use a Suhr Iso boost, works great!

 

[suhrimmetal]

Flying dragon
Mark 4.23

plenty of nice clean boost pedals out there. Ive had the 2 above and love em both.

 

[nevusofota]

I tried an SD pickup booster (clean boost) and still noisy and hissing like crazy. The quietest so far was an MXR Custom Comp, but still far from dead quiet for a clean channel.

It seems like anything I use makes my guitar signal louder but also raises the noise floor of the channel. Only answer may be a noise gate. Only problem is I have no room for another pedal. What's the smallest quality noise gate out there?

 

[Inca Roads]

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[nevusofota]

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I remember looking into this one s while ago. May have to pick one up.

 

[garey77]

Another vote for the Suhr Iso Boost. Compressors will introduce noise.

 

[TX6Strings]

I use the clean boost side of my Zvex Box-O-Rock. But I agree, you need a real clean boost. Not an OD pedal or EQ.

 

[Enjolras56]

+1 for CAL Mk 4.23

 

[8len8]

Before looking into a new pedal have you ruled out the long cable runs and any power supply noise issues? Try running your existing pedals with 12 inch cables and batteries for power just to make sure.

 

[Beyond Black]

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Agreed. End of thread. AMAZINGLY transparent pedal with a ton of boost. Do it.

 

[nevusofota]

Before looking into a new pedal have you ruled out the long cable runs and any power supply noise issues? Try running your existing pedals with 12 inch cables and batteries for power just to make sure.

It's not cable runs because my other 2 higher gain channels are dead quiet. The clean channel is also quiet, the problem occurs when I have to increase the volume using a pedal in the loop. You'd have to understand the EVH 50w limitations to understand why I have to do this. The clean and rhythm channels share gain and volume controls. The rhythm channel is loud and the clean is soft, requiring a boost of the clean channel within the fx loop.

 

[nevusofota]

Ok, played the MXR Custom Comp in the loop live this weekend and it worked well. Much better than the GE-7. Great thing is I killed 2 birds with one stone by adding compression and volume boost all while remaining fairly quiet at stage levels.

That Custom Comp is a very underrated pedal I believe. It's a subtle effect and the internal trim pots allowed me to adjust it for the fx loop application.

 

[nevusofota]

I'm still going to pick up that MK boost. I've heard such great things about it.

 

[El Mariachi]

TC Electronics Spark Mini Boost.

THIS!

 

[misterspockyall]

Thread resurrection, my apologies. FWIW I had much more luck using a midi channel/loop controller (Decibel Eleven Switch Doctor) and a passive volume box to drop the volume of channel 2, instead of trying to boost the channel 1 volume. Very little attenuation needed to even out the levels, next to no tone loss. Every time I boosted the channel 1 volume (keely clean boost, etc) it added a lot of hiss.

Just a PSA as this is a rad amp, but drove me nuts. I found this to be an excellent work-around. Now if I could only gain out ch2 and clean up ch1 without adjustments.

 

[jlbaxe]

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