On Saturday, I stopped by Rainbow Music in State College where I confiscated ever single overdrive and distortion pedal in the store. The only things I left there were pedals that were obviously designed for metal or grunge. Everything else was fair game.
I then set up 3 different backing tracks to play along with. I then created 3 categories, “Clean Boost”, “Partial Gain”, and “Full Gain”. I put two backing tracks into each group for a total of 6 minutes of backing music.
For the next 4 hours that night, and for 5 hours the next day, I went through 17 pedals, recording each one at 3 different settings matching the groups above. Each pedal was played over the exact same backing tracks with the exact same recording setup.
By the time I was done, my fingers hurt so bad I that it hurt to type. My ears were complely worn out and I think I’ll never want to hear those tracks again.
So to sum up, my weekend was spent like this: 17 commonly available distortion/overdrive pedals recorded the exact same way, over 6 minutes of the exact same backing tracks for a total of 1.7 hours of audio for your evaluation. I think I’ll name this pedal shootout “Play through the pain” 
I’ll be posting the recordings here sometime in the next week or two after I get them mixed down.