I play out all the time, and these shredder dudes in the audience come up to see my rig. Sometimes they laugh when I bring my rack and they see the old stuff. However the old stuff I am using was used back in the day by all types of pros. When I am done, they come up to me in great surprise. They love the sound.

Anyway for distortions that sound real from heavy heavy metal to a full slightly dirty blues or R&B sound I use the ADA MP1 with a BBE Sonic Maximizer into a MOsvalve 180 watt power amp. I also run this into a Marshall head.

For beautiful reverbs, delays, flange, chorus, etc I use a 1989 Roland GP16. It has several outputs for stereo, XLR, and multi stereo amp outs and tons of sounds and fx.
You can find all of these crazy cheap.
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