Best Distortion Pedal Over a Marshall Plexi

[jasonmaska]

I'm looking to get a distortion or overdrive pedal that can work well with a Marshall Plexi head. I'm looking to get a crunch to play both lead and rhythm parts. I need my low lows and my high highs to stay with my tone.

Let me know if you have any suggestions...or if this even makes sense.

 

[LPMarshall hack]

Ofa sd-1!

 

[Marival]

I'd like to suggest the Hardwire CM-2.

Very transparent and versatile. It also gives you control over the highs and lows.

 

[blues_n_cues]

"best" is a relative term.
Boss sd-1
MXR M77 c.b.a.o.d. overdrive or MXR Distrotion+ if you want that 70's early 80's sound.now it's made by Whirlwind & called the gold box.
Ibanez ts-9 or ts-808
Carl Martin Plexidrive.

there's plenty more out there.

 

[Rodney]

I'll second that on the Hardwire CM2. Awesome tone through my 1959SLP. And I just picked up the Hardwire SC2 Distortion pedal today. Dam these pedals are good

 

[50WPLEXI]

Fulltone Plimsoul, plenty of gain and lots of tones to be had.

 

[Stringjunkie]

Bogner red pedal

 

[grimlyflick]

I've just recently bought a Joyo Ultimate Drive, really cheap, and apparently an OCD clone, which sounds rather nice.

 

[zenfly]

I have a $$$ Tone Bone, a Boss DS1, and a JOYO Vintage OD I paid $40..
I use the JOYO most..

 

[Petri358]

MXR Distortion+, MXR Micro Amp and SD:s Pickup Booster works for me.
I'm not suggesting anything though.
You must just try, try, try....

 

[stilllifer]

Carl Martin Plexitone... incredible pedal and best one in front of ANY amp I have tried it with!!!! Check this...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng4peS3MjrY]Carl Martin Plexitone demo, by Pete Thorn/ProGearDemos - YouTube[/ame]

Cheers!

Geoff

 

[crossroadsnyc]

For a 'distortion' pedal, this one ...

 

[brandoz28]

Maxon SD9 Sonic Distortion. Makes my plexi clone really happy.

 

[Bigbazz]

Digitech Bad Monkey overdrive, push the front end into it's own sound. The best bit about the pedal is that it's cheap as chips, a great sounding OD pedal. It's not a distortion though, I wouldn't rely on it to create the sound, just pushing the front end like a tubescreamer.

 

[Quasar-Kid]

The Carl Martin works great in front of my Fender stuff...
It's completely unnecessary in front of my Marshall Heads

 

[dptone5]

SD1 or Fulltone Fulldrive II Mosfet - Both very transparent and work great in front of a Marshall.

DP

 

[jasonmaska]

Thanks for the help so far. I currently use a visual sound Route 66 overdrive and compression. It sounds great but it has a sound that almost sounds compressed even when I use just the overdrive. Something about it just seems to muffle the tone a bit. I want to be sure I keep the tone of the plexi and just throw some crunch over it, I don't need a huge amount of gain.

 

[tm0099]

I've tried a few SD-1's (stock and modded) an MXR sparkle, a ts-9, and few others over the years that i have forgotten and the one i won't part with is my OFA SD-1. I use it out front of my silver jubilee and 2204 and use it live all the time. All the others have been put into storage.
I can't comment on fulltones, carl martins, bad monkeys but right now the OFA SD-1 has totally satisfied me and i ain't even looking elsewhere.
Just my 2c's , my opinion.

 

[Badmonkey]

i have this (the right one)

 

[rads]

Carl Martin Plexitone... incredible pedal and best one in front of ANY amp I have tried it with!!!! Check this...

Carl Martin Plexitone demo, by Pete Thorn/ProGearDemos - YouTube

Cheers!

Geoff

cannot agree more

i've made a clone of plexitone, never tried it in front of real plexi,
but in front of JCM 800 2204 is amazing,
and in front of 2061x, it creates instant van halen's brown sound..