2) Wampler Dual Fusion
Wampler fans, before you get angry at us for not making this the winner, let us just say, outright, that the Wampler Dual Fusion is not only the best distortion pedal released this year, but the best currently on the market.
Every single distortion pedal made by Wampler sounds remarkably like natural tube distortion from an amplifier, and no other company comes close when it comes to this aspect of the pedal market.
The Dual Fusion has versatility, a range of tones, a number of parameters with which to manipulate those tones, it could quite easily work as the only distortion pedal on your board.
It is billed as a fusion pedal, but really you can get pretty much any distortion tone from the Dual Fusion, all the way through the spectrum.
Yet another great product from the mind of Brian Wampler - with the added help of musical mastermind Tom Quayle.