Where Do You Like Your Boost???

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Faded Abyss said:
I never understood why people put a noisegate after anything
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A boost pedal will raise the noise floor. If the gate is after the boost and set correctly, it will silence additional noise from the boost before it goes into your amp. I dont have any issues with sustain or reduced dynamic response running it this way. There are many ways to run a gate, or multiple gates if that is your thing.
 
I suppose I got off topic talking about gates.

for a boost, one trick I’ve found is stacking a OD or whatever into my empress Para EQ running at 18v. Basically the para EQ is at the end of the chain whether I’m stacking or not. The added headroom seems to give me a bit more dynamic control for some reason. It gives you an extra breath
 
A great place to find a boost is with amps that are designed with boosts already as part of them or with a channel that is boosted. It seems designers have already found what boost works well with that amp. Then you can always just turn it off if it's a switch and use your own boost pedal or change the channel from the boosted one. As an example, the EVH5150III red channel sounds very boosted. So it doesn't really need a boost. Then you have amps like Marshall Origin, Some Friedman, PRS, just look at the footswitches and if there is "boost" or sometimes "gain" written on them, you have a proprietary boost with the amp and you should try using that first, IMO. They usually sound very good.
 
BatmansRigTalk said:
A great place to find a boost is with amps that are designed with boosts already as part of them or with a channel that is boosted. It seems designers have already found what boost works well with that amp. Then you can always just turn it off if it's a switch and use your own boost pedal or change the channel from the boosted one. As an example, the EVH5150III red channel sounds very boosted. So it doesn't really need a boost. Then you have amps like Marshall Origin, Some Friedman, PRS, just look at the footswitches and if there is "boost" or sometimes "gain" written on them, you have a proprietary boost with the amp and you should try using that first, IMO. They usually sound very good.
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I don’t know much about amps circuitry. When I think of “boost” I think of it being specifically before the preamp section in some way. Does this remain true with all the “boosts” that are integral to the amps?

purple nightmare for example, boasts about having a tube screamer built in. Wouldn’t that be similar to all these others amps and their “boost”?
 
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