More Gain!!

[Model 6 Matt]

Hey all, i have a Traynor YCV Blue 50 with KT77's and JJ 12ax7's, 1x12 inch vintage 30, its a great amp, however, the clean channel can be cranked to get a plexi type thing going on and the drive channel with the boost on can get heavy, but would pushing it (possibly both channels for either a vintage high gain sound e.g van halen, or the drive channel for heavy metal) with a TS type thing, do i boost it with the volume knob or gain knob?? which will give me overall more gain or would i be better off using a pedal through the clean??

Thanks all

[lerxstcat]

Volume up, gain down, tone to taste on the pedal. Of course you can play with that, you could get some in-between sounds on the clean channel by turning up the gain. But for a more or less clean boost, do the level up and gain down thing.