SeattlePhil

Hey guys ,new to the forum. I should have probably joined 20 years ago but now I need wiser minds than mine because this is driving me insane. Its not important, its just that I really need to get down to 5 pedals please let me explain. For years I was one of these guys with 30 pedals, then 20, then 15, then I was gonna stick to my best 10 pedals the rest of my life but as you get older you begin to appreciate simple/clean/tone. To me, now at 50, just an old guitar/amp and clean tone playing with volume is so incredible, something I avoided ever diving into playing shows as most of my songs were the same format of delay/clean and then rat distortion through a 82 Marshall Plexi. So that was my story until 2018 when I was hanging out backstage and watched Eric Gales setting up 4 pedals. FOUR. Later that night, he blew me away when his set hit, especially with how well he used his volume/tone of his guitar and how he milked his four pedals. Since then, I have been concentrated on trying to get the sweetest and warmest clean tone ever AND getting down to the bare essentials, so I chucked all my new pedals and pulled out my old school 80's shit and a 64 twin. I have been blessed with killer equipment but my main two guitars are a 1960 custom purple tele with a humbucker and a 1960 Les Paul Custom. I shelved my Marshall and am actually playing an amp that was owned by a Seattle guitar god that I managed to get ownership of (wont name him sorry!) which is a 1964 blackface twin reverb. Just by themselves my main go too pair is the tele/fender twin reverb and it sounds sooooo warm and killer. My pedals are as follows: 1979 Tube Screamer with chip/logo which sounds FANTASTIC 1960 Vox WAH with Queens emblem Tuner Digital Delay Analog man King of Tone So my question is this. I have been using the Analog man as a "boost" for pre leads and then hitting the second switch for lead, then hitting my screamer for over the top lead....too much. Its too much but that was my methodology. Here is the problem, the Analog Man has epic tone and it can get real dirty, but so does the screamer. I have to get rid of one of them, and I cant decide OMG this is killing me and I know it's stupid but this is the crap 50 year old's worry about.