can I leave a solo boost pedal on for a whole song?

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guitar lad

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probably a stupid question but In my band there is 2 guitar players (I am one of them) and we both play lead depending on what song we are doing and i really don't like having to step on a pedal at the start of my solo. So I was wondering could i get something like an Ibanez tube screamer and step on it at the start of a song that I am playing lead in and take it off when we are doing a song that the other guitar player plays lead in?

sorry if this is a stupid question

cheers
 
Not a stupid question at all. Generally you just want your lead to be a bit louder than your rhythm setting. If you like the rhythm sound you get with the tube screamer then you could just slightly roll back the volume knob on the guitar (which lowers volume and cleans up the tone a little) and then when you start to play lead just roll the volume on the guitar all the way up. Leaving the pedal on will not drown out the other folks, you can set the volume at any level you want regardless of whether or not the pedal is on.
 
The point of a solo boost pedal is to make the volume of your solo louder than the volume of your chords. If this is something you want then there is no other way round it.

It's possible to set both guitars to the same volume and not bother with boost pedals but the risk is that the soloist may not be heard as much as they'd like.

Your idea of leaving the pedal on for the whole song wouldn't work, unfortunately, because the guitarist with the pedal on would drown out the other guitarist in all the other parts of the song as well as the solo.
 
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