Very nice: MXR distortion Plus model

 The same guy made this http://sites.google.com/site/distorque/home/vsts/rangebastard  its a vst of a Dallas Range Master. I discovered them over at  http://www.guitarampmodeling.com/index.php  There are forums for nearly all of the free and commercial amp sims there.

I've actually found it more useful then the 20 different ABG and Lepou models I've collected. Those have been similarly filed. I've also filed away Amplitude II in the same drawer. I'm primarily a guitarist and I've weeded down all the try-outs to about 5 usable amp sims or distortion pedals. I used the MXR way back when they first came out in the mid 70's, I still have one of them. If you take it through it's paces and dial it down, it does give a nice overdrive when the high end and diode clipping are scaled back. Just my opinion of course: it's all about seasoning to taste after all.

One that continues to give me a really good clean to barely discernible over drive is the Arandaz White, used with a good quality compressor in front and tweaking the treble and drive down to almost nill, it gives me great dynamics. It's my go to, which will be slowly replaced by Scuffham.

Another one if some haven't hear of - Ignite Amps Tube Screamer clone (TS-999) and an amp or two. I'm okay with Amplitube, but these may be worth a try.

http://www.igniteamps.com...;Itemid=55&lang=en