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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
But if you would like more, boss sd-1 is a great all arounder. The visual sound drivetrain is nearly the same as the slightly legendary but poorly built Reverend drivetrain and sounds great. The digitech bad monkey is a well priced od, too.
Lastly... Ehx have released a klon style drive. It's not a direct clone, but it's pretty clear where the inspiration came from. That's well priced, and might suit you nicely.
But I got some nice, barely overdriven - to - moderately overdriven sounds from the id amp I tried quite easily, I liked the el84 setting the most for it
But you're right, it's a great sounding pedal regardless of price.
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My favourite for low gain drive, though, is the Award-Session JD10 Sessionmaster. Will do clean all the way up to mid-high gain, flexible eq and a speaker emulator switch as well. (The Digitech pedals above also have a speaker sim out)
There are budget copies of the original OCD. Joyo Ultimate Drive and Mooer Hustle Drive come to mind.
As ICBM mentioned I'd be amazed if there weren't some good light drive sounds to be had in the id keep the gain low and push the mids a bit and maybe use one of the cleaner models
A Blues Driver will do lower gain stuff, but surprisingly enough, it has a lot of gain, and sounds pretty "rock-y" to my ear. I love mine- it's just not what I expected out of a pedal called a BLUES Driver.
I, too use amps with digi/solid state preamps. The BD2 works well with them.
I second the OCD recommendation- although I see no reason not to get a real one. They aren't THAT expensive, esp compared with a lot of other high end stuff out there. You can use it to add just a lil bit of drive- or a whole lot, and it sounds great.
Full Tone also makes the Full DriveII, which is a low gain TS-like pedal. It's two pedals in one, a boost and a drive, and you can choose between two voicings as well.
For a left field choice, there is also the MXR Classic Distortion, '78 Distortion, and Prime Distortion. Contrary to the name, these are more like hot rodded OD's than full on distortions. Run into a clean amp, you need to push them really hard to get into what I would call distortion territory. What they will do, is make your guitar sound "bigger", and add a lovely light crunch. That's the best I can do to describe what they add to your sound. They're very nice sounding pedals, and dirt cheap ( the Prime and Classic are about $40-50 at Guitar Center!). The '78 never leaves my pedal board, and sees MUCH use.
To add to what the others are saying about your amp, The clean channels can be pushed hard to get a nice light bluesy crunch. The crunch channel way down low, will also do a nice mild drive. I've only demoed this amp in a store, and watched every demo I could find, so YMMV. Super Crunch, and OD 1 and 2, are voiced for hard rock and metal respectively, so none of them is going to give you the kind of tone you're looking for. Also kudos to the suggestion of the 6V6 and EL-84 settings on the TVP. Those are likely your best bet for getting "that" sound.
EDIT: yeah if you can borrow a pedal you might as well try that. the blues driver is a pretty decent pedal and worth a try for sure.
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