You did state that you know what types of effects or pedals you are looking for. You are just looking for recommendations of brands.

So this may be too basic for you. But you or someone else may find it interesting. I did.

Sweetwater has a new video on their site called "Guitar Tone: Tones of the Pros Featuring Mitch Gallagher". It's here: http://www.sweetwater.com/insync/guitar-tone-tones-of-pros-featuring-mitch-gallagher/

Mitch literally wrote the book on guitar tone: http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GuitarTone/

Here's the description of the video:""Mitch deconstructs the guitar tones used by famous guitarists, and explains how you can achieve them too. In this video Mitch discusses the tone of Angus Young, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Eric Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Eric Johnson."


Fascinating watch but allow some time. It's almost an hour long.