Recommend some pedals for a clean amp rig

[cGoEcYk]

I have an old school Mesa D180. I mainly use it for bass but it has a guitar channel too. I am kind of wanting to explore its potential for guitar more. This thing is super powerful.. 6x6L6. The way it operates is you run the Master at 10. Talk about headroom. It has a unique voice... very clean and strong, maybe too clean to be a good pedal amp... dunno.

Any ideas what might be good to throw in front in terms of distortion etc? I've always preferred to have a good amp for distortion (my thinking is how is some $50 pedal going to sound as good as say... a Recto). I am not sure where to start. I want to start small with some simple experiments. What do you guys recommend?

 

[Promit]

Not much of a pedals guy but look at the Suhr Riot or Bogner Ecstasy Red.

 

[Lifestalker]

Wampler Triple Wreck is an excellent distortion pedal!

 

[TheWarAgainstTime]

Bogner Red/Uber, maybe an OD in front of one of those. The AMT pedals also get a lot of love around here.

Definitely a gate for running it with heavy distortion, because I'm captain obvious like that

 

[AlexEdwards]

Grab yourself a tubescreamer and go from there! It's more of a boost than distortion but a little bit goes a long way. adds a ton of sustain

 

[Rock4ever]

My favorite overdrive atm is the BB Preamp.

 

[youngthrasher9]

You need to check out the AMT legend series of pedals. I have the P2, and if you listened to it blindfolded you would think you were listening to a real 5150.

 

[benduncan]

I second the Bogner pedals. I'm not an pedal guru, but they're the most amp like OD pedals I've used

 

[mr_rainmaker]

AMT...

 

[jamiemassan]

Not alot of people like digitech but I'm addicted to the tl2 metal hardwire distortion pedal right now.

 

[iplayibanezrg]

+1 for the Suhr Riot. Its very versatile and sounds great. I use it as my primary distortion with my band and I'm always getting compliments on my tone.

 

[zilla]

I recommend this pedal (shameless plug)

Master Effects - Dual Rectifier in a Box - YouTube

 

[MoJoToJo]

Suhr Riot or go the cheap route & buy one of these>>>>>NEW Joyo US Dream JF 34 Overdrive Distortion Guitar Effect Pedal Free Shipping | eBay
I have one on my pedalboard & have no complaints.

 

[danresn]

AMT or Bogner. You can't go wrong

I've haven't really got any experience with Suhr distortion pedals but I can't imagine them putting out anything bad.

 

[chassless]

my AMT E1 is balls. a boost pedal as well certainly won't hurt but i'm amazed by how great my tiny rig sounds: a 5w tube amp with the AMT on the front.