Definitely well made, robust, and well put together. But, I found that I had a love-hate relationship with the distortion sound it makes. It's distortion sounds too... smooth. Goes to noise, without grit or "ribbing". It tries to be able to do everything, and hence... I replaced with a Boss BD-2 Blues Driver and an XO Metal Muff. I wouldn't buy it again, but that may just be a matter of personal taste.

This pedal is well worth the price of admission. The closest my Fender Tube amp ever came to Marshall crunch, is with this pedal. There is a silly amount of low end to this pedal, probably more than a single twelve inch speaker can reproduce. But it is abvious that Marshall did their homework, and delivered a quality pedal at a reasonable price. I'll guarantee that there are pedals out there that cost more, and sound much worse.

I've had this Marshall Gov'nor pedal for about a year & a half. I used it on a pedal board with a Strat thru an early 90's vintage Blues De Ville hybrid tube amp. Not much of a tone range. The controls are not very responsive. Suggested settings that came with the instruction book were not much use. By itself the sound it produces is rather uninteresting & flat. When combined with a DS-1, though, I could get a really nice fat sound that was useful for a lot of things. But, last week it died. I don't plan to get another one.

Right now I'm trying to put together a pedalboard, so I bought this pedal thinking that first it is a marshall, and secondly I love the tones on marshalls. I will personally tell you that I HATE this pedal. If anything it is a boost, but this is definately not the tone I am looking for. For it's money it does it's job, but it doesn't give any distortion at all.

I use this pedal in front of a 70's Marshall MK2 Super Lead for extra push. Marshall put a useless amount of low end in this pedal. I have the "deep control" turned off and the bass set at about7-8 o'clock. Mid is set at 10 o'clock, treble at 11 o'clock, gain at 1 o'clock,. I get a nice creamy overdrive with my American Fender Fat Strat.