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I have a Suhr Riot for distortion which is nicely nasty, and a Wampler Pinnacle for high gain Marshall territory. Dont forget to add some nice Chorus or Univibe sounds plus the obligatory delay. Oh and a wah pedal, and maybe a fuzz. Soon mounts up doesn't it!
try a Joyo sweet baby, or a better clone or real Honey Bee, nicely warms up and smears the sound a bit - does a lot of Mayer blurred tones (when using a clean amp)
Matt Scofield used a SOV2 with a smeared amp sound, and I found my SOV2 crisped that up when I used a similar amp, which I assume was his intention, but this was no use to me when playing a crisper amp (I tried a studio pro 35 and 50 and think crisp was the way I felt it played)
A Joyo US Dream (Riot clone) is a good cheap way to try a riot sound if you can't borrow one. Excellent high-gain US rock sound with a clean head.
Getting a fru style sound isn't too difficult - you can do well with a Marshall guvnor 2, keep the gain fairly low and spend a while dialling. That's your Marshall clean (put it into a clean amp), then use a boss ds2 or mega distortion for his drive. He also uses an ic big muff I think, and some weird time/modulation stuff that will cost a bomb. Single coils only, no in between positions.
Vai - use his sig dual distortion. It's probably 2 modded ds-1s side by side, but it does sound good. The satchurator is also really good for those liquid lead tones and rock rhythm. Again, both work great into a clean amp. Humbuckers are order of the day.
Build an axis fuzz for the fuzz face style playing.
Yup, it adds up...The dirty little secret could also work for the Marshall alike sounds, but the guvnor 2 is amazingly underrated for reasons beyond me... Luckily, a satchurator would approximate satch, vai and frusciante distortion really, really well, so that would be my first port of call (it's a modded ds1 style circuit iirc).
I'll just edit - I'm not a two rock user, but most of the pedals I've recommended are heavily voiced, as in, they don't care what they go into - they sound the way they do regardless. So your amp might not sound like your amp with them, but that's kind of the point.