Pedal boost?

[gazaboy1]

Hi all new to this forum. I'm currently in a band and not been gigging for long now (about 1 year) .Play lead guitar - rock/blues style. Thing is i am going to upgrade soon from a Solid State amp to my first Tube amp (probably a Laney lc30) and i currently use a Boss blues driver and a Crappy Behringer graphics pedal as my solo boost . Seem to be havin problems getting the right levels when trying to cut through for solos and was wondering if anyone had any ideas for the right pedal set up. I was thinking about a volume pedal and just using the Boss through the clean channel with an added Delay as well. Dont really Know as i am still trying to learn the game so to speak !! any help would be appreicated .

[Jazz P Bass]

Pedal setup

Ideally you would want to put the driver before the amp input.
Graphics, volume boost pedals should be inserted in the effects loop.

[booj]

If you put the boost before the boss, you won't get much volume boost for leads, even if you use the guitar volume to clean it up. I wound up building a volume box with two controls, one for rythm and one for lead. It basically worked, but i found myself fidgiting with the controls for the whole first set to achieve volume bliss. A volume pedal makes sense if you can globally adjust the range it has (instead of completely off to full on), and then set it up after the distortion. I find volume pedals a little difficult to use for instant change though.