I forgot that I didn't list one of my "must have" pedals. The SHO. I have a clone I built. There is a reason people pay almost $200 for a real one when it's $3 worth of parts, and even in a nice case it's $20 worth. The only knob it has is not a "level" or "gain" knob, it's a bias knob that obviously changes the bias of the transistor. YES, the scratchy sound is LOUD if you turn it while your amp is on! But what it does to the sound, but clean and gain channels, is really cool. The one weakness this pedal has is rolling the volume knob off on your guitar. Because of what this pedal does, it gets noisy when you do that. So if you want to roll it down, step on the pedal and turn it off first!
What it does is sort of magic though. Really adds some zing to clean and gain tones. In fact (confession) I had taken this off my board a few weeks before I got my Archon and had never put it back on. Last night, I picked it up and said "what the heck have I been doing? I haven't even tried this with the Archon yet!" I plugged in in and HOLY CRAP again.... IF the Archon is not "mean" enough for you and you want more snarl and sizzle, just turn on the SHO. Even if you think your Boogie's sound good now, just turn on the SHO! Even if you already use another OD pedal, just put the SHO in front of it and it will make it even better. I built one SHOCD. Inside one box, SHO>OCD circuit. It was great! The two make a killer pedal setup together and I still use my SHO clone > my Fulltone OCD. So it works great with other pedals as well.
If you play either, you need one of these! (For that matter, it kills with the Custom 50 and I can't imagine in not working with the HX/DA, MDT, DGT or whatever. The problem again, the real ones are a lot of money for a VERY simple boost pedal. I owe a few people here favors so maybe I should buy a couple decent looking powder coated cases and make a couple for my boys.