Not tube-like. Not useful, mainly because it colors the tone in an annoying Fletcher-Munson way... Impossible to get a flat tone. Not good for cascading gain... too undefined, loose, and flubby sounding. Very disappointed. There are many better distortion pedals out there. This is the least useful in my collection of several ranging from boutique to cheapie....
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I liked some of reviews of this remake of the original hot tubes pedal. I liked that it was a smaller footprint pedal design as well. I have a few OD's and Fuzz's already. My goal was to find a different drive pedal for other textures. Mostly its driving fender type tube amps. Think modified Tweed and Blk face types. I like what this pedal does So far. It gives up a variety of OD sounds depending on the settings. And it has the mini switch to take the tone circuit out of the signal path. Win win. I don't feel it colors my sound in a bad way. No hum hiss. It seems to work well in my pedal chain. Although my oldest OD is starting to give me issues now. I'm thinking it just needs a good cleaning? Cool pedal. Strat or LP. Can be almost fuzz like or can also be distorted and nasty bad..in a good way. It does it's own thing with a nice almost trebley sheen on top of it . Priced reasonable. Keeper for me. Cheers. Read full review
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I play synth, not guitar, and I love this pedal for it's full-throated overdrive, tone control, and tone switch. Sometimes I just use it to add volume to weakly amplified devices, and sometimes I use it to give crushing overdrive to 808 kick drums. I love that it can be 9v powered, takes up very little space, and is very inexpensive. When I fried my first one out of stupidly plugging in what I thought was a 9v battery replacement (but turned out to be a 9v battery charger), I immediately bought another one.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
If you have a decent guitar to rock on, you can get the feeling of the tubes for sure. Play loud! Put it right before the amp input after your effect pedals, you are on! put before your gain pedal, compress on for solos.
Nice pedal as an OD or as a boost pedal. Overall performance is just great. I just hope I won't break it!
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