One thing I forgot to mention is that I actually find you get a better range of tone if you cut the distortion. Totally clean tones have massive range. I think that's cause distortion boosts the higher outputs so you can hear them, thereafter a lot of cut out is needed to eliminate them. If you play clean on the other hand some of these higher tones are hardly audible so you can eliminate more of them.
What kind of wah does satch use? Can't complain about his tone on Cool Number 9 or why, it's the smartest wah sound I've ever heard it gives me the shivers!