If you know anything about guitar tone, you know that you need to use a tube amp's distortion to get a natural sound that isn't over processed or mechanical sounding. With that being said, this is the best secondary distortion source to use.

It sounds amazing just over a clean sound to get a classic fuzz, but it's even better to use over a tube amp's distortion to create sounds that are ridiculously original. Highly, highly recommended. Solid construction, amazing sound.

One warning, this is a BIG pedal. It's about the size of a small, crappy effects processor you get when you first start playing. One side note as well, I use a Fender Jaguar with all single coils and it's twangy to begin with, so if you are using anything with humbuckers beware, it produces a lot of low end and may become muffled.

A buddy of mine left this at my house, so I thought I would try it out and see what it sounded like. Since I blew a fuse or something in my guitar amp, I thought, what the heck, and decided to try it on bass. This is going to sound odd, but using a spector 6 string and a squire 4 string through an American Audio PA cab, I get an amazing deep punchy tone! Dial in a bit more gain and I got a really cool MUSE-esque tone that was great for some tech-funk and alternative style stuff. Also sounds great through a traditional bass amp on both basses. Sorry I didn't get to test it on guitar, but this is now my effect of choice for bass. Prior to stumbling over this, I rarely used effects, only some eq and a bit of gain when the situation called for it, but this effect has given me an entire new outlook on tone shaping. Give it a try for a great MUSE effect on bass!

I have owned three electro-harmonix pedals all of which are broken. I didnt treat them poorly, they are just poorly made. The sound was never quite what I wanted out of this type of pedal, too washed out, not enough control. The fact that it lasted less than a year was really disappointing. Don't waste you time and money on this pedal. Go check out the Way Huge line instead.

This thing is awesome. You kind of know what you're getting when you buy this, and if that is not the sound you're looking for, you won't like it. If it is, then it will fulfill every dream you ever had about it. The only bad thing about it is that the box and the switch is not as sturdy as it could be, but that's just nitpicking.

This is a good pedal if you're looking for a fuzzy grunge sound. You can adjust tone, volume and distortion but that's about it. You can't get this particular effect out of any other pedal though so to me it's worth the money. It just sounds nasty/dirty but in a good way! Just make sure you buy a power supply plug for it as it doesn't come with one.