Can anyone recommend a really good distortion / overdrive pedal to put in the front of my amp?

How are these pedals? Is there really tubes in these just like a tube amp? Can't be!

Well, I finally bought a new amp, a blackheart head and cab set, and as I mentioned in the other thread I posted, I bought it cos it sounded pretty good with a decent pedal. At the time I was playing it through a boss metalcore pedal, which was alright for the job, but not brilliant, so my...

hey guys i've been looking into boosting my engl thunder 50 in some way. It has a lot of gain but sometimes when i want to play extreme gain down tuned stuff is just doesn't quite cut it. what do you suggest? i was thinking either a boss SD-1 (i hear using this is common) or maybe like the...

Ok here it is. The actual poll.

I just replaced my Bad Horsie with a reissue Vox "Clyde" Wah. OMG- it's the best, most musical, 'woman-voice' wah pedal I've ever heard. So now my board signal-path goes like this: Guitar.>.........> Clyde Wah.......>.......Planet Waves Tuner.........>.........> >....Ibanes Reissue...

I'm looking at buying a distortion pedal to use with my amp, and I was wondering if you guys could make some suggestions? I fiddled around with a BOSS Metal Zone and liked the sounds, and I like the distortion on Laney or Mesa Boogie type amps.

Hi guys! Recently I was thinking a lot about getting a good distortion pedal. Mainly,I am a metal player and I need to have something that would give me a nice hi-gain tone with as less noise as possible on those settings. However I know it's impossible to eliminate some noise on extreme...

Which do you prefer?

Lots of people are really into pedals, and the different ways to hook them up. So post a photo of your current pedal board and maybe a brief description of the setup and the sounds. I'm still trying to put one together but I'll come back and post a pic of what I have so far later today.