blacktronone

Built by hand by one Atari Matt and part of a range of completely unreasonable but magic effects, the Idiotbox Dungeon Master was the second boutique pedal I ever broke my 'don't buy it til you've tested it' rule for. Nestled heartlessly between the fabled Boss HM-2 and the borderline dangerous Marshall Supafuzz, this buzzsaw king is a true bypass game-ender, at home on both guitar and bass. Brilliant for grind, death, sludge and doom, sticking my Nighthawk through this beast is Swedeath central. Cascaded with other pedals with the Low removed completely and the treble maxed out gives a wicked 'down the radio' sound if you back your volume control back a touch. Lethal.

I've owned more drive pedals than anything else in life, like clothes and dinners. Prior to this, my main drive was split between the Caroline Effects Wave Cannon Mk1 and a custom GoldSoundz Leopold, and though I still use those effects for other stuff, the Caveman demolishes everything. A heavy-duty overdrive on the left hand side, the boost on the right hand side is fixed, giving a pretty generous lift to what is already a hench tone. I'd be the first to admit that this is a particularly dark drive, and I run it with the tone flat out to get the upper content. The v2 is a bit more adaptable in terms of having a pre/post switch for the gain, and being a larger unit. The Mk1 is no longer in production, so if you see one clamber all over that thing.