You have ONE distortion/overdrive.. What's it gonna be?

equalsql

Imagine this.
You've been given an opp to play guitar in a huge venue. your own band or depping for some major band.
You've been given a clean amp.. no overdrive even at full bore..bit it sounds great clean. Fat and spanky.

You get to pick ONE overdrive or distortion pedal. No Axe FX etc, just the pedal.

What are you gonna choose?
Remember your rep depends on this.... so what's it going to be?

colourofsound

Without even having played one - Chase Bliss Brothers. It's 6 drives in one pedal...

Failing that - a Snouse Blackbox Overdrive 2.

guitarfishbay

I pick a 5150, it can sit on the floor and I'll kick the channel changes thus making it a pedal

Jonathanthomas83

Buffalo TD-X

octatonic

Analogman King of Tone- by miles.

MrMusic

+1 Analogman King of Tone, no brainer!

simonk

Suhr Eclipse - all bases: covered.

ICBM

Boss DF-2

Sporky

Foxrox ZIM. Clean Smile and Hot9 cards.

TTBZ

Rat.

Edit - changed my mind - Suhr Eclipse!

UnclePsychosis

Dist+

Flanging_Fred

Paul Cochrane Tim.

downbytheriver

Brown Tone Hoochee Mama

JezWynd

Maxon Distortion Master

Grunfeld

It's always gonna be a Nobels OD1-R or a Boss OD-3.
I love those drives.

Teetonetal

Gurus 1959 double decker. 2 channels of marshall plexi plus a clean boost. Oh and fx loop... Oh and emulated out.

OD pedal and backup pedal all in one.

Failing that then the TI'm pierce OD from jrad would do it for me I think.

mike_l

My own tastes for a go-anywhere, play anything OD would be one from

Boss SD1

MXR Distortion 3


Or MXR GT-OD


All are awesomes.

stratman3142

Maxon OD9.

Kebabkid

OCD

Actually, the Earthquaker Pallisades looks useful or the Ethos Clean but no experience of them.

siraxeman

wampler pinnacle

ThePrettyDamned

Boss df 2. Can do light, loose rhythm drive, mid gain, loose crunch, mid gain, brighter stack type crunch and fairly high gain leads. Not the best at clean up, but probably the best sounding overdrive pedals I've ever used. 

Second place goes to a boss ds-2. Similar to above, but not as good sounding, plus has an amazing lead fuzz tone on top.