clay49
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I'm looking for a good transparent/organic OD/gain pedal (or pedals) to use with my new 3rd Power Citizen Gain CSR head. I LOVE this head...best classic rock tone I've found in an amp in years. The clean channel is chimey and rich, and the OD channel has very light gain all the way to near metal (80's metal, at least).
What I'm looking for is a pedal (or two) that I can hit the amp with to take a basic crunch tone (in the OD channel) to more saturated (but still articulate) and then maybe another pedal to kick it into a pure lead tone. I'm open to suggestions of one pedal with several gain stages, etc. My playing style is stuck in the mid 70's-mid 80's...Foreigner, 38 Special, Blackfoot, Molly Hatchet, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, etc.
However, I don't want a pedal that fundamentally changes the feel of the amp. For instance, I have a Mesa Boogie Grid Slammer (which I have in the emporium for sale), which is their take on the venerable tube screamer, but it adds a pretty nasty low mid spike, regardless of how I have the tone set, and changes the natural amp tone from a bloomy, woody overdrive, to a harsher tone that sounds synthetic...does that make sense?
So, given that, what pedals should I consider that will work with my amp, not mask or change it, to achieve the above stated goal???

What I'm looking for is a pedal (or two) that I can hit the amp with to take a basic crunch tone (in the OD channel) to more saturated (but still articulate) and then maybe another pedal to kick it into a pure lead tone. I'm open to suggestions of one pedal with several gain stages, etc. My playing style is stuck in the mid 70's-mid 80's...Foreigner, 38 Special, Blackfoot, Molly Hatchet, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, etc.
However, I don't want a pedal that fundamentally changes the feel of the amp. For instance, I have a Mesa Boogie Grid Slammer (which I have in the emporium for sale), which is their take on the venerable tube screamer, but it adds a pretty nasty low mid spike, regardless of how I have the tone set, and changes the natural amp tone from a bloomy, woody overdrive, to a harsher tone that sounds synthetic...does that make sense?
So, given that, what pedals should I consider that will work with my amp, not mask or change it, to achieve the above stated goal???