Pedal to drive my tube amp

[rankine]

I want a pedal that will add a little more overdrive to my Laney LC-30 (all tube). At the moment I can get really nice blues and rock tones with some drive on the amp but I need a little more overdrive to get that hard rock/ old school metal sound.  I'm trying to build a TS808 on vero at the moment but I think it's a bit out of my depth and I'm not sure if I'll ever get it working!
What sort of pedals and what specific pedals should I be looking at for this tone?

[liakos]

here you go...
http://www.runoffgroove.com/omega.html

[markm]

There's a long list of boosters that could drive your amp.
May I suggest the "Beginner Project" and let me add, don't let the name fool you, it's Fantasic! 

[96ecss]

I haven't built the beginner project but I hear very good things about it.

I like the Mini-Booster to push an amp into some great natural overdrive. I used the layout from GGG and I'm very happy with it. http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=69&Itemid=26

I'm also planning to try this booster from a certain forum member who already replied to this thread http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album76/booster_LAYOUT

Hey Mark, how about your ROG Peppermill Jalapeno? That's another one I'm gonna get around to building one of these days.

Dave

[jonathan perez]

metal zone

[km-r]

metal zone

wow... 
hehe, that pedal sounds as warm as a dead polar bear...

cheers!

[petemoore]

  Omega gets built again  for sure.

[jonathan perez]

metal zone

wow... 
hehe, that pedal sounds as warm as a dead polar bear...

cheers!

itll destroy your tubes, at the right settings.

[km-r]

something to do with t3h polar bearzorz??

[the_random_hero]

metal zone

wow... 
hehe, that pedal sounds as warm as a dead polar bear...

cheers!

itll destroy your tubes, at the right settings.

*shudders at the thought of that horrible piercing noise that's apparently distortion*
Go for a nice OD or booster of some sort.

[grolschie]

I have a Laney LC50. The Proco Rat (with LM308 chip) sounds great on it. Great for a 80's metal sound (not death metal) when the amp is crankin'. Sounds valve-like but heavy, without the bees in a tin can thing happening.

[markm]

I'm also planning to try this booster from a certain forum member who already replied to this thread http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album76/booster_LAYOUT

Hey Mark, how about your ROG Peppermill Jalapeno? That's another one I'm gonna get around to building one of these days.

Dave

Ahhh yessss, the booster+!
It has that "funky" tranny in it that no one is quite sure exactly what it does!
That's a Fantastic sounding circuit.
The Jalapeno is quite good also, it's just a few mods on the basic Peppermill from ROG but, it uses a different board 'cause it has some extra parts in it.

[jlullo]

i highly recommend markm's viagratone

[John Lyons]

I built an Omega (runoffgroove.com) recently and I liked the sound of it a lot.
There is a soundclip in the post here. http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=59348.0
Very nice for driving an amp into distortion

John

[jonathan perez]

metal zone

wow... 
hehe, that pedal sounds as warm as a dead polar bear...

cheers!

itll destroy your tubes, at the right settings.

*shudders at the thought of that horrible piercing noise that's apparently distortion*
Go for a nice OD or booster of some sort.

modifications, dude.

[Seanw]

I have a Laney LC50. The Proco Rat (with LM308 chip) sounds great on it. Great for a 80's metal sound (not death metal) when the amp is crankin'. Sounds valve-like but heavy, without the bees in a tin can thing happening.

Do you run the Rat into the od or clean channel? I have a Laney VC-15 and love the amp's overdiven tone but would like to push it a bit more.

[newfish]

Can't recommend the 'Beginner's Project' enough.

Low parts count, simple layout, no hard-to-find / hard-to-bias components, sounds great, *and* there's a tutorial on this very Forum.

Can't go wrong.

You'll learn lots, and have a very worthwhile booster at the end of it.

Made mine a couple of years ago, and still use it.

[Steben]

If you read the question right, you cannot suggest stand-alone overdrive effects, and surely no distortion pedals.
A good booster is the stuff that's needed.
A warm booster, a treble booster, a flat one a colouring one, that's the question, but definitely a booster.

[Steben]

metal zone

wow... 
hehe, that pedal sounds as warm as a dead polar bear...

cheers!

itll destroy your tubes, at the right settings.

*shudders at the thought of that horrible piercing noise that's apparently distortion*
Go for a nice OD or booster of some sort.

modifications, dude.

If modifications are desperately needed, it's a bad pedal to start with.

[deadastronaut]

man..did anyone check the date of the original post?...