Pedals For Soloing

i ve been listening to bands like shadows fall, dragonforce and so on and one thing i ralized or at least think i did that when they get into the solo part their sound is a litle diferent more clear higher pitch very distinguished, is that an effect or some kind of pedal that they are usin bc i dont believe its just the distortion pedal
if u can help me to get that sound like them or close to it it would be great