Zoom 505 --- boost for solo

[johnnymegabyte]

Has anyone had any good results with a "boost" or "screamer" type pedal in conjunction with Zoom 505.

I would like a little extra drive / gain for solos

I have a patch based on Blues / Gain 10 / Chorus 1 / Room 3 which I use most of the time, a classic rock sound

However, I'd like more "zoom" without changing to another patch

The setup is guitar into boss delay into zoom into mixer using headphones. I have a PC with midi's. This is strictly hobby.

Any ideas ???

[Sangram]

Trust me, you dpn't want to do that. It sounds Horrible if you don't bypass the Zoom. Either the Zoom overloads, or the added gain of the boost pedal brings out the noise of the Zoom very well indeed - depending on whether the Zoom or the boost is first in the chain.

[johnnymegabyte]

Thanks for the advice. Some patches can be noizy.
The boost pedal might be too much for the Zoom to handle

Maybe, I should consider a "solo" patch right next to my "fave" patch. I already do something like that going from clean to distortion (blues with a little chorus)

[gusfinley]

Hate to break it to you, but if you use any sort of other pedal in conjuction with the Zoom 505 - even in bypass mode, you are going to get a huge increase in noise. For this reason I hardly ever break out the 505 anymore and just use amp distortion or a Boss DS-1.

[faderbug]

zoom gear is useless for anything but noise/experimental.