I always plug directly into the guitar amp, actually i prefer to have a clean distortion, but it always sound dirty...i m not very gd in effects so it always cos the output of the sound to become very weird n hope to get some advise here...

i m actually playing rock music..i m currently using gibson nighthawk(landmark series) ...

i just want to get the sound like most people playing lead, so clean n clear...
when playing distortion as rhythm it wont sound dirty too...thks!