Boosting

[japheth]

Hey all, I can never get this right. Can someone tell me the different ways of boosting, how placing a pedal before and after your primary pedal affects your boost?

Currently I'm using an SD-1 as my primary drive pedal and a Hotcake before it for boost..Hotcake's mainly for vol. boost with very light gain on. Is that the right way?

 

[Kidt]

Hey all, I can never get this right. Can someone tell me the different ways of boosting, how placing a pedal before and after your primary pedal affects your boost?

Currently I'm using an SD-1 as my primary drive pedal and a Hotcake before it for boost..Hotcake's mainly for vol. boost with very light gain on. Is that the right way?

I think boosting have to depend that the pedals can match. I dunno much, but this works for me.

Amp > Proco Rat (Main Drive) > Omlabs Sahasrara (Boost) > Guitar

 

[edder]

Boost. No right or wrong.

What do you want to boost?
The amp or the next pedal or just increase overall loudness of your current sound?

In your setup, you're boosting the SD1 with your Hotcake to make the SD1 distort more. If that is what you want then bingo!

Just for fun, try putting your Hotcake after the SD1 with the same settings. I'm imagining that it would be generally just increasing the volume plus a little bit of flavour from the Hotcake. BUT I may be wrong as sometimes pedals react differently with each other.

 

[VidaK]

Its all mix and match... arrange your pedals in whatever order and hear which one you prefer. Enjoy experimenting

 

[EugeneSmasher]

Here's how I place my booster (Digitech Bad Monkey):

Guitar > Beta Aivin HM-200 > Digitech Bad Monkey > Amplifier.

For this set-up, my Bad Monkey works perfectly as a standalone overdrive as well. Never really tried the other way around though, as a matter of habit I always have the lowest-gain device closest to the amplifier.

 

[Bobster]

To reiterate what edder has said, there are many different kinds of boosting.
Here are the common few:
1. Boosting for tonal differences
2. Boosting for more gain/od crunch
3. Boosting a cranked amp.

I think what u're looking for is the gain/od crunch, the pedal arrangement of your sd-1 and hotcake is fine. However, you might wanna try keeping the gain at 8 or 9 o clock(depending on how much gain the crowther holds) and probably keep the tone at 12 to sustain the same tone. Volume however depends on your amp as well.

Do remember however that not all od/dist pedals can work well as a booster.

I haven't tried the hotcake though.

Bob