Your favorite "non-boutique" dirt pedals?

[Radical AC]

If I had to choose one, that in my experience is at any guitar center, it would be the OCD.

[julius_deane]

That hasn't been mentioned yet:
Danelectro Fab Distortion

[hollowhero]

My GC has diamond, mad professor, malekko, etc... so am I allowed to say b:assmaster??
Otherwise, I'm going to go with a bass big muff and a rat

[selfdestroyer]

I would go with the Rat

[Fuzzy Picklez]

Rat/Turbo Rat.
Best decision of my life.

[Ironbird13]

it would have to be the main pedal I use, Metal Muff

[kbit]

Hardwire CM-2 overdrive sounds killer on bass.

[Atrox]

MXR Custom Badass OD, just got one and it sounds really good, lots of vintage vibe going on there. And it stacks just wonderfully with my pigtronix philosophers rock in front with the grit activated. Together it's bonamassa lead tone heaven

[snipelfritz]

Muff

[coldbrightsunlight]

Rat and boss odb3 , although I haven't really tried much else so I'm sure there's some other good stuff.

[Bartimaeus]

Turbo Rat. Boss SD1/OD3.

[fungalattack]

Landmine, fz-2. I never bonded with the rat. NYC big muff is meh. I think the hm-2 is baaaaad, sometimes a good kind of bad though.

Oh dod supra distortion is a cool pedal that you can get for 15 bucks.

[rfurtkamp]

I have both a Dano Fab Tone and Daddy O on my board, the old big box metal clunkers you can beat bandmates to death with.

Both are very very cheap but I've had a Fab Tone since they came out and were amazing into my Space Echo back in the day, still true today if I want mean on a stick.

Daddy O I have set as boost and low-end thickener mostly, it punches some of my Devi stuff into fun places.

[StivBrigggs]

In Canada we don't have Guitar Ceneter, we have Long and Mcquade.
We can actually get some nicer "boutique" stuff, but usually its the larger companies.

If I was on tour and my Wiio, Clairnot, Geiger and all my other dirt pedals somehow stopped working.
I would be fucked for certain songs, but I would go get either an MXR overdrive, OCD and a Rat.
I remember seeing a rig run down with King Buzzo where he sez that in the studio, he goes pedal crazy....
yet for live, he wants to be able to walk into any pawn shop or music store to get what he needs.

[dubkitty]

I remember seeing a rig run down with King Buzzo where he sez that in the studio, he goes pedal crazy....
yet for live, he wants to be able to walk into any pawn shop or music store to get what he needs.

i've noticed (by board-ogling ) that a lot of guitarists in touring bands seem to follow this philosophy. makes sense to me, and i'd probably follow a similar path if i was going to be doing 30 gigs in 40 days or something, especially on a club-date level where it's so easy for your gear to walk away.