Pedals that stack with the Vox VT100X Modeling Amp

clean platform takes the driveA clean, high-headroom stage takes on dirt it can't generate by itself. (transparent → low gain)

The RAT's dark, cutting distortion pushes the VT100X's own warm, digitally modeled gain into something sharper up front.

Goes in front of the amp

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (warm → bright)

Where this leans warm, Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster answers back bright

Goes in front of the amp

clean platform takes the driveA clean, high-headroom stage takes on dirt it can't generate by itself. (high headroom → mid-forward)

Run Marshall Guv'nor into that high headroom platform and it finally leans toward mid-forward

Goes in front of the amp

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Keep TC Electronic Stereo Chorus Flanger after Vox VT100X Modeling Amp in the signal chain, clear of Vox VT100X Modeling Amp's own gain stage

Goes in front of the amp

shapes the dynamic responseShapes how the tone responds to picking dynamics rather than its frequency or gain.

Run the Philosopher's Tone Micro before the VT100X for boutique sustain and compression before the amp's own digitally modeled gigging tone reacts.

Goes in front of the amp

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Keep the Carbon Copy Mini's dark, ambient slapback delay in the VT100X's loop, clear of the amp's own warm, tube-modeled preamp. — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Sits in the amp's effects loop

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Keep Dawner Prince Boonar in Vox VT100X Modeling Amp's effects loop, clear of Vox VT100X Modeling Amp's own gain stage — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Sits in the amp's effects loop