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Need help with picking overdrive

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How are you powering your pedals? What is loud about it? Is it a humming or buzzing? If you have noise typically it's related to a grounding issue. Your worst enemy with high gain is having a daisy chain setup powering your pedals. It causes a ground loop making the signal going into the front of the amp buzz. You may need to invest in an isolated power supply.

Also for best tone, i never use pedals for gain unless it's low gain. Tubes provide the absolute best for tone. But there is a fairly cheap nice high gain pedal i am aware of! Golden plexi by tone city pedals. It's about $60 USD. Take a listen to it on YouTube, if your not impressed you'd be the first I've met haha.
 
Squealing? Sounds like it's harshly compressing your signal. The pedal it self may be the issue. If you're running an OD pedal into clean and it's squealing i would imagine the tone can't be that great. You may want to try to use your high gain channel on the messa and then adding the pedal you are using but turn the gain down on the pedal. Just to give your high gain channel a little boost.
 
No am not familiar with that pedal. Isn't the mark iv a mesa that petrucci uses or used? I know you said it was a rack mount setup, i am just trying to figure out what you are using. The mark iv isn't a really high gain amp so... i feel your pain. I'm not a metal guy myself, but i like screaming gain like van halen or joe satriani.
 
I always like watching Andertons Tv YouTube channel for gear.



Check this out, they have a nice group of metal pedals you might like. The EvH pedal is actually really nice. It has a lot of nice features. But it's probably over priced because it's an evh pedal.
 
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