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I bought this pedal primarily because of the great price (less than $30 on sale), and secondarily because it's a mini and will fit well into an "all small" board I'm building. Turns out it's a great blues driver clone with a popular Keeley mod. I used it with a Telecaster into a small solid state amp with both clean and overdrive, a Marshall MG30DFX. The value of the pedal alone makes it worth 5 stars.After I set the pedal volume and tone to where they sounded best, I adjusted the gain through different settings. On the clean channel, from lowest gain to about noon, the pedal is a nice clean boost that could be used always on to warm up your sound a bit. From noon to about three, it starts sounding more like a tube amp getting pushed into that nice blues/classic rock tone. From three to five (maximum) it sounds like a low order distortion pedal where it might be good for the song, or a bit too much depending on your preference. So, it's got a nice range of tones possible with just the single center knob.On my amp's built in overdrive channel, the gain knob from low to about three o'clock when engaged actually took away some of the overdrive distortion and lowered the output volume, despite having made no changes to the pedal volume. It effectively cleaned the sound a bit. From three to five, basically the top 20% or so of the gain range, it added a little bit of overdrive which pushed the amp into an ugly solid state distortion tone that would likely sound good only with old hard core punk. I think this result is due to the amp's inherent distortion on overdrive having a greater impact on the tone. Due to this result, I'm going to limit the pedal to clean amps when I experiment further.I looked through some of the other reviews here while I was trying to figure out the fat/normal toggle. Playing chords while on the clean channel while going through the various gain settings, I was hearing subtle changes at best on the tone. I was originally going to give the pedal only 4 stars because I thought this feature was broken. One of the reviews mentioned the possibility of a broken toggle switch that was not affecting tone at all. I too thought that might be the case because no matter whether I flipped from normal to fat, or fat to normal while on the very same chord strum, I just wasn't hearing much difference. That all changed when I hit a single low D. Flipping from normal to fat compresses the sound a bit but emphasizes the low note. Flipping from fat to normal pulls the compression and puts the highs back in. It seemed like the normal mode sounded better with single low notes. Playing DG on string 3 & 4, the fat mode sounds better since it seems to emphasize the mids through the compression. So, looks like all the features are working well.I have high hopes for this pedal with my Fender tube amps, primarily the Delta Blues, and the Blues Jr. I suspect it will play very well with them. I'm looking forward to further exploring. I have no problem highly recommending this pedal to anyone. I'm going to look into other stuff from this manufacturer because it is a fantastic value.

Fit nice and snug in a tight spot, but is very visible. I saw someone say the red light is bright when you are tuning, but, after all once you hit bypass, to the guitar sound again, it all goes away. Not an issue on this review.

I keep forgetting to write a review for this. I noticed there were none a while ago and nobody has written one since so it's up to me. This is a clone of the current MXR Univibe chorus/vibrato. Univibe is not really a chorus or vibrato, it contains elements of each plus tremelo and gradual phase shifting to emulate the dopler effect. It's not chorus or vibrato, and it's not a phaser- it's univibe, a distinct and unique effect. The effect has a vintage voicing which means it can sound a little muddy or dark at the bottom of the sweep in chorus mode. Rolling back the level, depth or both can alleviate this. The sounds at the extreme end of the vibrato mode can nail the warbley and ethereal dissonant guitar from Follow the Leader by Korn, and the chorus mode can replicate everything from light swirling to funky undulations heard on Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. If you remove the 4 screws holding the chassis closed, you might be surprised to find a battery clip. I recommend against using it. If the foot switch is in the on position when the plug is removed from the jack the circuit will remain powered and drain the battery and you may not know because the LED doesn't always indicate wether the battery is drawing power unless there's a jack in the input. It's also not daisychainable because a light but audible modulating of the noise floor can be heard. Idk whether this indicates analog or signal circuitry but it's important to know. Bottom line: If you want to try a less popular effect without dropping too much cash, you need a cheap replacement that will last at least a couple of gigs or you're like me and think these old effects should be public domain, this is worth looking at.

It works

fairly robust, but has a somewhat major flaw. when the linear potentiometers are pushed to the absolute top, the band jumps to very loud and completely distorts, and when pushed to the absolute bottom, the band cuts to nearly zero. the distortion issue is also in the volume control, but that's no real issue