Boster/distortion pedal

[divots84]

I have one of the new Randall combo amps (I play mostly in my room or jam with friends). I get a great distortion sound from the amp and it is almost a great lead tone but it is lacking jump and sustain. I have a Boss overdrive pedal to boost the signal but it is noisy and cut the tone. I have a Boss eq7 and tried that but it is way too noisy.
Is there a pedal whether a boost or tube screamer like that will boost the sustain and give a little more punch to give me a great addition to the lead tone with out being so **** noisy?

Thanks

 

[Joltin Joe]

Any good clean boost pedal should do exactly what you want. The mxr micro amp is a good pedal to try as you can order one from MF and send it back if it doesn't work out. Using a clean boost is literally like turning your amp to 11. Keep in mind that by boosting the front end of your amp and adding gain you will also increase the noise somewhat. The GE-7 is a poor quality and noisy pedal to begin with so don't judge boost pedals by that turd.

 

[GtrGeorge!]

I am surprized you find the Ge-7 noisy. Some have said that..but I used moderate gain and distortion and havent had an issue with noise.
Are you going really high gain? maybe thats amplifying the noise aspect in your signal. Jus sayin...
There are a bunch of clean gain boosters out there. In my experience none really adds "punch" (dynamic range). At their best they dont take any away..and at the same time give you more output. Thats what Ive noticed.
people swear by the TC electronics booster, the MXR line driver, some even like the Zvez super hard on pedal. yeah, thats its real name.
I have used the MXR commmande series preamp pedals. They are small, extremely lightweight, run forever on a 9v battery and over some tone improvement if you work the dials right. They are hard to find but really cool little pedals. Maybe do a search. They dont go for much (as opposed to the TC and zvex...yikes!!!) YMMV.

 

[khl]

i think a tube screamer or other od pedal like mxr zakk or maxon 808 would do the best
the noise just depend on how u set the pedal n ur amp gain..
set the tone n gain of ur od pedal less than 9 o'clock and output all the way up, turn the output back until u get rid of ur noise
and i think all the boss do cut a lot of ur tone

 

[Mailman1971]

I just got done going thru this. I went to the music store, tried about 6 different OD pedals from the TS9 to the 808 and all variations. I went with the Boss SD-1. For the money it just kicked ***. Level all the way up, tone about mid, and the Gain very subtle. It turns the 1086 module into a FIRE BREATHNG CHAINSAW ON ROIDS!! Man.......I been missing out for years always fighting running a OD pedal. AFter talking to the Randall Rep, he explained it was more for the VOLTAGE from the pedal not the Distortion. Made sense and I am never looking back. Part of my tone now forever.
And this is coming from a ANTI PEDAL USER!!!
Try it out.....for 50 bucks you CANNOT GO WRONG!!! 8)