Pedals that stack with the Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ Combo

Boss CE-2 Chorus

The CE-2's watery, shimmering chorus follows the Mark IIC+'s singing, high-gain lead voice for added texture.

Ibanez Tube Screamer

Push the Mark IIC+'s singing high-gain lead voice with the Screamer's mid-forward boost and it gets even more focused.

Dunlop Cry Baby

The Cry Baby's vocal sweep gives the Mark IIC+'s high-gain lead voice extra expressive movement for solos.

Suhr Shiba Drive

The Mark IIC+'s singing, high-gain lead voice gives the Shiba Drive's vintage, articulate overdrive plenty of saturation to push into.

Xotic EP Booster

Hit the IIC+'s front end with the EP Booster's clean FET boost and the amp's own singing lead gain just gets pushed harder.

Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress

Into the Mark IIC+'s glassy lead channel, the Mistress's flange sweep stays articulate instead of turning to metallic mush under high gain.

Klon KTR

Into the Mark IIC+'s glassy clean channel, the KTR's transparent boost pushes it into singing, midrange-forward breakup.

Walrus Audio Voyager Mk II

The Voyager's selectable germanium and silicon clipping gives you two different ways to push the Mark IIC+'s own singing lead channel.

Electro-Harmonix Q-Tron Plus

The Mark IIC+'s singing, high-gain lead voice gives the Q-Tron's dynamic envelope-filter sweep a saturated amp platform.

Mad Professor Sweet Honey Overdrive

The IIC+'s clean channel gives the Sweet Honey's natural, touch-sensitive overdrive somewhere expressive to land.

Universal Audio 1176 Compressor

The 1176's fast FET compression evens out the attack before it hits the Mark IIC+'s own singing, high-gain preamp.

Vox Wah Pedal (General)

Put Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ Combo in front and the mid-forward tone leans further toward high gain

TC Electronic Corona Chorus

The Mark IIC+'s glassy clean channel is exactly the kind of transparent platform the Corona Chorus needs to keep its shimmer from getting muddy.

Ibanez TS808HW Hand-Wired Tube Screamer

Run Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ Combo into that transparent platform and it finally gets some high gain

Boss RV-6 Reverb

Feed the Mark IIC+'s singing lead channel into the RV-6 and the shimmer just extends the amp's own sustain instead of fighting it. — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Ibanez Tube Screamer Mini

Put Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ Combo in front and the mid-forward tone leans further toward high gain

MXR Distortion + (Script Logo)

Run mid-forward into Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ Combo for more high gain on top

JHS Pedals JHS Bonsai

Into a low gain tone, Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ Combo brings the high gain it's missing

JHS Emperor

Into the Mark IIC+'s glassy clean channel, the Emperor's chorus and rotary modulation stays shimmering instead of getting distorted.

Boss XS-1

The Mark IIC+'s glassy clean headroom gives the XS-1's tracked octaves room to sit clearly instead of getting buried in amp breakup.

Truetone VS-XO

Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ Combo layers high gain onto an already mid-forward signal

Dunlop 535Q Wah

Put Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ Combo in front and the mid-forward tone leans further toward high gain

Maxon TOD-9

Run mid-forward into Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ Combo for more high gain on top

EarthQuaker Devices Night Wire V2

Into the Mark IIC+'s glassy, singing clean, the Night Wire's harmonic tremolo pulses clearly instead of getting buried by the amp's own gain.