What OD/Distortion pedals to get a Bonamassa tone into a clean amp?

Hi there Riley, welcome to the forum.  Joe's tone is complex, but achievable with pedals + at low volumes.  Okay, so you say you use a Night Train.  I hear they are nice sounding tube amps so you have that covered.  Are you playing with single coils or humbuckers?  What Joe tones are you after, his old Stratier stuff or the newer Les Paul tones?  I'm assuming you are after the newer stuff, so here's what pedals I would check out:

Overdrives/Distortions:  Fulltone Fulldrive II, Fulltone OCD, Ibanez TS9 or TS808 (try a BBE Green Screamer if on a budget), Fuchs Plush Creme, Ocean FX Pearl Drive, Hermida Audio Zendrive or Mosferatu, Carl Martin Hot Drive and Boost, Boss BD-2, Chandler/BK Butler Tube Driver.

Reverbs: Electro Harmonix Holy Grail, any nice Reverb tank if you can swing the $$$, Mr. Springy reverb, Fuchs Verbrator, etc.  I find a nice reverb sound is KEY to the Bonamassa tone.

Delays:  Boss DD-3 (what Joe uses) or DD-6, Ibanez AD-9, EH Deluxe Memory Man, MXR Carbon Copy, Line 6 DL4 or Echo Park.

So of those, I would have 1-2 good overdrives at least, one reverb, and one delay.  Set the amp for a nice, slightly broken up clean that is very warm.  You want to keep the treble and presense down low to avoid that icepicky tone.  It's all about midrange for Joe, so I'd start at least noon on the mids.  I usually have my mids on at least 3 o'clock.  Adjust Bass for taste, you want some "BOOM" but not flabby mush.  Now, you'll want to have one overdrive set for a crunchy Marshally plexi type rhythm tone.  Try the volume just above unity (noonish) and gain to taste (also try the noon position).  Think "One of These Days" intro tone.  That's the riff I usually play to see if I have my rhythm tones happening.  Now for the solos you'll want to just goose that sound with some gain not neccessarily distortion.  I'd also roll the tone knob down on the lead pedal to back some of the highs off.  Maybe try the Volume on the lead pedal for at least 3 o'clock and keep the gain below 9 o'clock.  One more tip: Try using a more midrange neutral pedal for the rhythm/crunch tones and a midrange "hump" type pedal (tubescreamer) for the leads.

Okay, reverbs and delays are a lot less tricky.  If your amp has a loop, and I think it does, just stick the reverb and delay through the loop with the reverb and delay at a medium setting.  Joe puts all the knobs at noon on his DD-3.  You don't want a cavernous sound, just a little bit of depth.  This should get you pretty close...good luck and happy playing.

Thats even better man!  Two amps can definately get you closer to the tone.  Because of the Bogner's 6L6's, reverb, and delay you could set that up for a decent Dumble type amp like Joe uses in his setup.  Like you mentioned, there are plenty of Dumble type overdrives out there on the market.  The Vox Night Train has EL84's correct?  Regardless, it's probably closer to the Marshall vein of tone than the Bogner.  If it were me, I'd probably set the Bogner for a medium gain, tape echo, and medium reverb.  Also, I'd try to accentuate the mids as much as possible to fill in the EQ for the Vox.  Then set the Vox the opposite for more bass and highs, but not so much that it's harsh.  Also you might want to try a chorus pedal somewhere in there because Joe has been a long time chorus user.  You could experiment putting the overdrives in front of both amps or just one.  If you would like, you could check out some of my videos under the same user name on Youtube.  I explain in detail my own rig and to my ears, it gets close enough for me to be happy.

Barber Direct Drive is a great pedal - it's got a bit of a Marshall vibe but with a bit of Dumble going on also with the internal harmonics control full up.

Riley,

Dont give up on clean amps....

You can achieve monumental tone useing clean amps.  I use a Fender Twin and a Vox AC30 both set clean. 

My rig is very simple and lets me swich easily between some fantastic overdrives and delays.

I run my Les Paul or 335 into the following.

Tuner ->  Crybaby Wah ->  Radial Loop switcher.  I have only one loop and that is the overdrives. So On is overdrive, OFF is Clean

The over drive Loop goes into a Boss line selector which has 2 choices that I can swich between.  Light Overdrive is a Fulltone Fulldrive.  Heavy Lead tone is a Ocean EFX Texas Deuce.  Both are thick and powerfull overdrives.
I like this setup because I can leave the pedals on all night and I never have to turn them on or off. I click one switch to get gain and one to switch between the two.  Easy

After that Loop it leaves the Radial Loop Switcher and goes to a Boss DD-5 for crazy Delay.  Then it goes to a ABY to go to different amps.
The Vox amp has a Ocean EFX Vintage Echo which is the best delay I have ever heard.
The other side goes to the twin.

Clean amps will roar if you get the right pedal and guitar in front of them. Plus you dont need to turn them up nearly as loud to get them to rock. 

Other great Pedals I have used and own.
 
Fuchs Plush drive is a Bonamassa in a box.  Fantastic pedal.

Barber Burn unit is a great pedal that sounds a hair more marshally.  Lots of gain.  Overall great pedal and is versital being two overdrives in one box.

Fulltone OCD is a powerhouse.  I dont think its as organic sounding as the fulldrive or the Fuchs or Barber,  but its has more volume than you will ever need and the drive is heavy. It will make a fender sound thick. Its the only pedal I have that gets my telecaster into thick overdrive territory. So if you use fenders this may be a good choice.

Ocean EFX Texas Deuce and Pearl Drive.  The Texas Deuce is my favorite pedal Period.  I could play with just that pedal into the twin and vox.  It is amazing. The tone is perfect and the drive is enough for anything from light blues to Hard rock.

The Pearl is a different monster. Sounds tighter more like a OCD. I thought it was too much for my liking but dont let that sway you.  I'd use the pearl over an OCD any day of the week. Especially if you use fender strats and tele's. 

Good Luck.
Jeremy

Hey Riley I have been looking for ages for overdrive pedals that will give me a tone similar to Joes. I too need to play at pretty low volumes so not to disturb the wife and kid. I have been playing through a Fender super champ XD at home. I have been through a few pedals and in the end I have settled on the Fulltone OCD V4 and a Blackstar HT-Dual. I run the super champ in a plexi type setting with the reverb from the amp and a line 6 echo park for delay. I can cover a wide range of drive tones with these two pedals. I've linked in a video of a guy playing a Fender twin and the HT dual that I found on you tube. Hope this helps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_OawFUhV5g

It was an overdrive/distortion pedal into a clean amp that he was looking for so not sure an EQ pedal would really give enough dirt. I have a Boss EQ pedal that I have used for solo boosts in the past. Dug it out yesterday and your right a great tone shaping and boosting tool. what settings do you have on yours.

Ah, seemed to forget that part as I was typing it up haha.

I use a midboost setting, so set it to look like a frown, highest and lowest slides stay at 0, then the rest rise and fall. I have the volume at the centre on it too.