All The Tone

Needless to say, the four knobs and one button this pedal has to offer gives you all of the tone control you will ever need for whatever the situation. The "Bump" button gives a great boost to the low end of your signal and takes your guitar from rockin the house to shaking the house. In addition, this pedal also works well with MXR's Custom Badass '78 Distortion pedal.

Best OD pedal

I have tried many OD pedals and this one is by far the best I have used. You can dial in many amazing tones. I can't say enough good about it. Buy one! It looks great too!

Awesome overdrive pedal

I bought this because my current OD (Boss SD-1) pedal always had a "thin" sound and I didn't find it very useful for much of anything. Based on the demo videos of this MXR pedal, I thought it might maintain significant low end response while provided the required boost when needed, and I was correct.

The sound of the pedal is simply amazing, and has loads of both volume and gain on tap, so you can use it for a clean volume boost, or make some real aggressive tones by dialing in some gain. The 100Hz knob makes it really easy to dial in the low end, and the bump button provides a huge boost to low end frequencies.

The Tone in Your Head

1. It's very transparent and allows your amp's tone to shine through.
2. Extremely flexible. Between the "Bump" switch and 100Hz knob, you will get where you need to go.
3. Nice small form factor. Built like a tank. Very cool color.
4. Lots of output (volume, not to be confused with gain).

On my two channel, "smaller gig" combo, I use it as a 1.5 channel, in between clean and high gain. On my 3 channel head (clean, OD, high gain), I use it as a volume/gain boost for solos.

Rarely am I able to purchase something and be 100% happy with it. This got me there. I was easily able to get the tone in my head. It's a smoother than a TS-9, but still has plenty of bite to compete.