Aguilar Tone Hammer as Ovedrive or Aguilar Agro?

I reckon grizzly bass gets pretty close to the AGS circuit thing

 

IME, the Tone Hammer pedal is different than the Agro, and I much preferred the TH, so having a couple of those is the solution! I just used the pedal with a TH350 head and it worked fine. If it makes enough of a difference, use the AGS to kick on overdrive as needed. If not, the TH350 in particular is so small, just bring it as a DI along with the pedal. There are people who use DIs that are almost as big!

 

The Agro can get just as clean as the Tonehammer, but the overdrive character is pretty different. I like em both though!

And FWIW I didn't think the Grizzly could touch either of them! Much more gradual touch sensitive breakup and more of a speaker sim treble roll-off with both the Aguilars.

 

After having tried many...many... overdrives, a lot of which @dannDanny has tried, I find myself in a similar situation as the OP. The AGS on the TH is pretty much the perfect overdrive to me but I use that as a dedicated DI for some ampless gigs. And it's a bit big and heavy for just an OD pedal. There are some that have a similar od character but are not neutral and don't have flexible eq. Or some have great features but don't have the same breakup or touch sensitivity.

 

I recently tried the Agro. While I did like the character of the OD, I couldn't get what I wanted from the Curve control. When set so the lows were retained the mids were too scooped. Turning the knob to add the mids that would cut through removed too much low end. I'd rather it had dedicated bass and treble knobs.

 

^ You can kind of counter that though by turning down the presence and boosting the volume.

I've been playing the Agro into the Tonehammer lately, I've not tried them combined that I remember, but they work VERY well together. I'd be happy with these two as my main overdrive and preamp in fact.