A simple Korg tuner will do the trick as far as your tuner needs... but here's some hot pedals to get start off the drooling:
Ibanez TubeScreamer: The TS-9 is the basic version, not too expensive... however you really want to a piece of equipment that you will never have to replace no matter if you're playing in your room or playing a sold out Madison Square Garden... spring for the TS-808... it's salty but it's the holy grail of overdrive and the cornerstone of countless artists unmistakable tones
Dunlop Wah: The Jimi Hendrix wah is the basic... Awesome tone that you'd expect from a Dunlop wah... The Zakk Wylde is the one that I own and it's basically a hotrodded Jimi Hendrix wah with a bit more bite... but not quite as much as the Crybaby... Which is a good balanced wah... If you want brutal tone modification from your wah check out the Crybaby from Hell.
Boss pedals: Basically anything in the line of Boss pedals are good picks... Some are less essential than others ofcourse... The Metal Zone is a good distortion... Boss Delay pedals and chorus pedals are others that normally work their way into serious guitar players rigs at some point...
Digitech: Digitech has countless gadgets that are awesome for beginners and veterans alike. The new GNX3000 pedal is a killer redesign of the GNX series. They have a bunch of other killer pedals as well like the signature pedals. The Jimi Hendrix Wah, The Expression Factory Wah, The Distortion Factory pedal, The Crossroads Eric Clapton pedal...and so on. They're all awesome... If you're looking for a first wah pedal or can't settle on a distortion that you like check out the two Factory pedals. The Expression Factory has a bunch of different classic and cool wah tones... The Hendrix wah is the same way but restricts it to Jimi's famous wah tones.... The distortion factory pedal is a cool little pedal that models some of the most famous distortion and overdrive pedals... Pretty nice for the price.
Boss ME-50: If you have a decent amp... and want to start putting together a nice pedal board but don't know much about what's good and whats not... Check out this handy pedal board that gives you control over most all of Boss's pedals. From their delay pedals, chorus pedals, to their distortion and overdrive pedals....They modeled them and put them in this all in one unit that is designed to work ONLY as an effects pedal board... Rather than an amp modeler as well... This is more of a proffesional style application since most veteran guitarists don't like to use amp modeling... What's the purpose in buying that Mesa if you're going to use a JCM model on it...This unit uses your amps tone but gives you control over three seperate pedals that you can decide which is which and adjust the parameters just like you could if they were the individule pedals from Boss... Awesome little stage toy of you have a simple rig... I've seen a lot of rigs that have cost people over 500 dollars that could have been simplified by just buying one of these...
