Freakish Blues Alpha Drive

HA!  Yeah I have a disease called chronic GAS... even my friends have noticed...  Though I must say for amps and guitars I have finally found what works.  I am still looking for that elusive overdriven tone to make me happy.  I wish they would test these D-style pedals on Marshalls.  I have found, and this is to my ears only, that a marshall in a box pedal sounds pretty awful through a marshall since you get spiked mids on top of spiked mids and suddenly there is nothing left.  The alpha drive is super tempting.

Hey guys, for what it is worth my friend and I did a pedal shoot out a couple months ago.  We have been at this awhile.  We used a Marshall JCM 900 head.  I know, not the best but it gets a decent Marshall drive tone.  We had a Boss DD-3 and an Analogman Chorus in the loop.  We used the following pedals to hit the Marshall for a lead tone:  Rockbox Boiling Point, Wampler Ecstacy, Barber Small Fry, Keeley Tubescreamer, stock tubescreamer reissue, Fulltone Robin Trower Overdrive, BK Butler Tube Driver, Fulltone OCD and maybe some others.....  Anyway the best was the Rockbox Boiling Point, and the Wampler Ecstacy and the BK Butler Tube Driver were about a tie for a close second.  Next was the Fulltone Robin Trower Overdrive.  Too be honest the rest were quite aways behind these.  We were after a good singing lead tone that also had to have good feel and response to picking.  Everybody's ears are different, but this is how it worked for us. I have never tried this Alpha Drive.