I dont know if you might consider this dirt, but for dirt and distortion I'm a sucker for the Xotic effects BB Preamp, which I use with drive around 11hours, treble around 10, and bass around 14. That is my midgain base tone. For more gain I use the Suhr Riot, and a couple days ago preordered the new Bogner Burnley distortion, which has a Neve transformer built into it.
Back in the day I used the russian Big Muff, and it was really great as well. But the BB and the Riot really stand out, because I use them in my "regular" travel pedalboard. Mostly for playing with whatever amp they throw at me, and both work fabulous and translate great through any amp. They also work great with very different guitars, woods, pickups, etc. So it's a solid travel rig consisting of Keeley comp, BB Pre, Suhr Riot, TC Flashback and hall of fame mini, and a 4 preset switcher for real "scenes".
I have another parallel small rig with mostly expression and fx, consisting of a Dunlop Hendrix wah, a Guyatone wr5 autowah, and a Moog Minifooger ringmodulator.
Awesome versatile rig for rock, blues, hard stuff and even metalshred here and there.
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