Occasional live shows tend to favor the distortion pedal.
However he still used distortion pedals with the clean channel rather than the built-in overdrive channels.
It's modern day "country" music with a distortion pedal at best.
The bass guitar in the song uses a distortion pedal.
You could experiment with a few different distortion pedals.
Only guy there with an acoustic guitar and a distortion pedal.
The output level usually needs to be set fairly high to drive distortion pedals etc., so as to achieve the best signal-to-noise ratio.
The only effects in use are distortion pedals for guitars and hall effect for lead vocal on live shows.
People have a distortion pedal and then a reverb pedal.
No distortion pedals are used live, just the natural distortion of the amp is heard.