Tips on getting Adam Jones from Tool tone?

I can generally figure out how to get in the ballpark of certain guitar players' tones but I'm struggling to figure out how to get that awesome meaty guitar tone Adam Jones has. I know he uses some high end amps and blends them together and plays through his Les Pauls for the most part but can someone recommend some stomp boxes that could get me reasonably close?

Turn down the gain.

I can generally figure out how to get in the ballpark of certain guitar players' tones but I'm struggling to figure out how to get that awesome meaty guitar tone Adam Jones has. I know he uses some high end amps and blends them together and plays through his Les Pauls for the most part but can someone recommend some stomp boxes that could get me reasonably close?

Since his favorite amp is his (hidden) marshall superbass turned into super-lead... I would find a nice plexi-pedal.

Since your setup is tottally different, I believe, that any pedal with good mid-high gain sound would be close enough (actually all would be equally far). I can say, that, IMHO, he has pretty "dry" type of crunch. Crunch Box works pretty well, especially, if you turn down presence control to dial out some treble from tele.
For me, sound of tool more in music, then in sound. Their bass player has very specific tone (played with OD and pick) and do a lot of work. And drummer has some really special gooves. I do not think, that actually guitar tone is something special in tool. But he has some tricks, that helps to "nail it". Try Crunch box with some kind of wah with deep sweep and delay pedal. Play something like 5/4 melodies, and you'll feel that "tool vibe".

Since his favorite amp is his (hidden) marshall superbass turned into super-lead... I would find a nice plexi-pedal.

He's hiding it now?

Anyway, it's unclear that much was done to that bass head, so it's actually a little more stripped down than an actual 1987/1959 going from a schem - there's not much to kick up the mids like with a "real plexi".

And unless someone is trying to ape Opiate or Undertow, blending in the "other amps" is an important aspect from Aenima moving forward. IOW, the old Marshall head is really not happening with the lower stuff. As Tool has added more songs in Drop B, a "Marshall in a box" on its own is probably not going to do it.

Adam used to play either bass violin or cello, and that is partly how he gets "his sound" - it's the tactile approach that he uses. The other mainstay to his rig is a SD JB bridge pickup in each of those silverburst LP's that he uses. TTBOMK, they are otherwise stock...

Starting with Aenima, Adam added a Boogie. It wasn't a Dual Recto, because there was no such animal back then. At some point, the DR's are what replaced whatever Boogie he was using. He also added a Diezel VH4 along the way, too.

On the last few albums, he's blended in Sunn/Rivera/etc./etc. amps. He sets them all on one channel, mainly just grabbing whatever frequencies any of the amps is best at adding. Lateralus is really heavy in the lower mids, so it sounds like the Rectos took the front seat for that album.

Adam generally does have those stinging upper mids to treble frequencies on whatever album that it is, but I think that is mostly his playing style and speaker choices - probably anything from a G12M up to the more robust higher powered Celestions are what are being used.

To get that from a singular pedal is probably a bit of a fantasy. But I can get those stinging mids with some of that "harmonic looseness" that IMO sounds like beat up Celestions, with a Rat. It really helps to have a SD JB pickup @ the bridge position - it is almost like his "booster." I have yet to try another pickup that sounds similar in the right ways.

And - you've got to have a bit of that legato technique as opposed to picking every last little thing - essential to the AJ sound, IMO.

If I had to go with a pedal other than a Rat, I would probably go for something like the Emma Reezafratzitz (sp). It will bounce back and forth between tight/loose like is an essential part of the AJ sound. Too tight (like just a Boogie) and it will lose the bounce and dynamics IMO. That is why I recommended a Rat. If you need a little more distortion, follow the Rat with some kind of booster.

I'm a pretty big tool fan, but never considered Adam's tone to be all that special. They're more about group dynamics than any one piece.

However, if I want to get close to that tone, I use a bridge humbucker through my Barber Direct Drive with the push/pull tone pulled for the "hot rod"(or whatever it's called) mode. Mostly it's in using an angular attack with the right hand to get some harmonics to come through.

I used to pull of a pretty credible version of his sound using a Boss DS-1 into a solid state practice amp. Dry. Rear humbucker.