You can choose one boost pedal only

[stratjacket]

Airis Savage Drive, Lovepedal Eternity or Mythos Mjolner, hard to choose just one.

 

[ZEN Amps]

Airis Savage Drive, Lovepedal Eternity or Mythos Mjolner, hard to choose just one.

Fine, you're allowed to choose three!

Seems the humble tube screamer is less of a kingpin these days, no great loss. Haven't tried a VFE standout, looks like an interesting unit with more control than your typical boost or OD pedal.

 

[JerEvil]

Deadweald Duality. It slays. The green mode is probably my favorite TS type. The blue mode covers the TC type tones.

 

[burger]

Koko Boost

 

[9985]

Friedman Buxom Boost

+1 for the BB - I spent an hour in a small brick & mortar shop few years ago trying different boosts, this one won out over Keeley Katana & Xotic. It's best at 18V. Also love J Rocket Rockaway Archer, can do Klon, clean boost & 6 band EQ, very high quality.

 

[lol]

Beano boost

 

[Shask]

Hard to pick just one. I build a lot of my own pedals, so I would probably say my VFE Ice Scream Clone, Buxon Boost Clone, or BYOC Green Pony (Maxon OD 820 Clone).

 

[JHowell13]

How has no one mentioned the Deadweald Audio Duality DX? Literally, 3 boosts and an awesome gate in one pedal.

 

[TheGreatGreen]

I'd go with some kind of EQ.
Probably a Boss GE-7 because that's what I'm used to.

To me, the main benefit of boosts is not their ability to add a distortion stage, but their ability to slam an amp's input and shape the guitar's low end to tighten things up. You can setup a good EQ to shape any guitar any way you want.

 

[SoooRad]

GE-7

 

[fek]

I went on an OD bender of the past 5 years or so and ended up with an SD1 for Marshall's and a TS9 for the 50W Stealth. Recently picked up an SLO30 and prefer the SD1 with that as well. Still have and love my original Koko but am changing up my gain flavors a little bit. Probably will end up going back to the Koko eventually though. Always do.

 

[ClintN667]

Deadweald Duality. Especially the DX. Matter of fact its usually the only pedal I use with my amps besides a delay.

 

[Fordman65]

Koko Boost

After the Peppers, I also have this listed. But is it truly a clean boost? I use mine to add back in a significant amount of mids. Maybe "clean" isn't the right term, or maybe I'm not interpreting it as intended.

 

[ClintN667]

My second and third choices would be a VFE standout and a Tamura modded TS

 

[7 Stringer]

SInce its technically a 2 in 1, I'm going to cheat and say the new KMA Pylon I just got. The boost function on it is very serviceable and and the low end cut knob has the ability to cut even a bit more what the DT achieves.

I gotta agree here, just got one too and man the boost is so good on it, very tweakable. And the switching functions are awesome!!!!

 

[panhead]

Boss MT2 MetalZone

Yep I have one and use it as a boost and parametric, I dont use the distortion. I saw Govt Mule in 97-98 in a club, Allen was still living aka 3 piece, saw the pedal on Warren`s board no shit.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

SD-1 because it is "good enough" and also sounds great. Can find them everywhere. Essentially the AK-47 of the pedal world.

 

[lowmantotempole]

I found this to be pretty interesting…

 

[napalmdeath]

Deadweald Duality. It slays. The green mode is probably my favorite TS type. The blue mode covers the TC type tones.

I need to get my hands on one of these..

 

[MxLx]

Friedman Buxom Boost

+1 It's just so versatile - works in front of anything!