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It is indeed right: The pedal is - especially in front of Fenderish Tube Amps - giving you the cracking voice of a hot rodded amp, as made famous by Eddie van Halen. Two things are really impressive: The tone is clearing up nicely when rolling off the volume of the guitar, and the pedal is absolutely silent, even if higher gain settings are dialed in. If you find a store having them, give it a try and test them!

My 1st US guitar, a 1999 Les Paul Special with 490T and 498T humbuckers! I own it since 2000 and it started my tonal preference to rock out with a raw 'n' pure mahogany tone. It is a one-trick pony, but the trick to offer a fat crunch tone with virtually every amp is a great one. When I found myself picking her up less frequently, I decided to do one non-invasive upgrade: I fitted a Stetsbar II trem system which makes her absolutely unique now. So different to my PRS Std24 as well as to my Bigsby B5 equipped PRS Starla, she's the only Gibson that stays.

My CE 22 is a 2007 built one in Matteo Blue, with a wide fat neck! What makes this guitar really standing out for higher gain rock stuff are the Dragon IIs. I like their voicing that much that I exchanged the Vintage Base/HFS combi in my PRS Std24 with another pair of Dragon IIs. They are still high output, but with a more classic, throaty voice than esp. the HFS is providing. I'd prefer Dragon IIs (not Dragon Is) also over Gibsons Burstbuckers for bite and dynamic.

Great pedal for a low street price of app.$60 these days (Aug. 15) It has a dynamic that I have never seeen with pure analogue solid state pedals...and I am comparing with good stuff, such as the Pinnacle Wampler and the VG Route 66. It needs app. 10sec to get thebtube working, and then you can dial in anything from strong crunch to heavy overdrive. On a driven amp, you can get close to high gain rectifier type sounds, without becoming muddy. The mid shift is another nice feature. Thumbs up for this pedal, even if the optic is not really Vox (but the sound is not voxy, too)!

I am into pure mahogany flat tops for a while with a Gibson Les Paul Special from 1999 and a PRS Mira from 2010. This one adds completely different tones to it as it "shimmers" due to the Bigsby B5 (staying very well in tune) and the Gretschy Filtertron type vintage pubs that make the guitar less bottomish in its sound.

I have been through solid state, digital mod and several tube amps since 20 odd years. Lots of high endish stuff in their respective categories, still owning a Hughes&Kettner Zentera and a Kasha Amps Evil Robot Custom214 from the original Magnatone Tonemaster re-issue series. The DT50 is clearly a real tube amp, very dynamic and with great tones available at lower and enue volumes. The two fully identical channels are a feature that I started really enjoying when I removed the OEM suggested HD500 connection and started using it with my pedals. The beauty of this beast is that it reacts as dynamic as only tue amps do, with nice sagging and compressing of saturated tubes, but in combination with this huge versitality of the four Fender, Marshall, Vox and Mesa voicings. It is truly like having 4 amps in one! While the HD500 puts it back in the world of modelling, with too perfect, effect rich sounds (as HiFi as the Zentera does it, too), the DT50 alone with pedals gives this rawness that only classic rigs can provide.

This Vintage ES335 or DG335 clone is difficult to get as it has been 'outlawed' soon after its 2014 appearance. To my knowledge, it was never featured in a catalogue. Vintage is a brand by John Hornby Skewes of England, developed in cooperation with Trevor Wilkinson. Thanks to the Wilkinson hardware and an obviously good selection of a Chinese pro manufacturer, you get a great instrument at a 10th of the US-signature original.