Yup. It's always on. I started using it with my bass rig ... and I don't use effects on bass ... then moved it to my guitar board. I may get another one for bass eventually. It just fattens the sound and you control the fat. Right now, I'm playing a PRS Hollowbody Spruce with piezo and the piezo has seemed to lack guts in the bass area. The BBE has been an important part of the fix for that. Now the PRS piezo, although it does not sound like a Martin J-40, does have some low-end punch. Woo Hoo!

Yes, for the price it really is a neat unit. I wouldn't want to pay much more for it though. The lo contour is somewhat like a resonance control, and the process acts somewhat like a presence control (although I think it boosts around 2khz). It does at a sense of tightness to your sound, almost like compression, but of course not exactly like it. You just have to try it yourself and see if you like it.

The BBE Sonic Stomp Pedal, is probably the single best pedal you can add to your pedal board. It's influence on your overall sound, is almost transparent. I think that, in most situations, this is one of the greatest things a pedal could do. Transparency is wonderful thing, when you consider, you're adding sparkle & bark, with one pedal that doesn't "color" you tone in any way. You can dial in any number of tones with just 2 knobs & a switch. From spanky Tele beef-up to a raining in the mid-range domination of a Les Paul. It will add or diminish those parts of your tone that you're either lacking or hating. After 2 years of gigging, it's still the same pedal I bought (a little less paint on the metal case). Great simple add-on, it's "parametric-like" treatment of you tone, (IMO) makes your EQ pedal a thing of the past. I guess it all depends on what you're looking for. But, if you've found yourself trying to push your EQ pedal far beyond it's capabilities, just try a Sonic Stomp out. It's NOT going to hit you over the head. Oh man, what it does for your tone out in the audience nothing short of amazing!

Removes the mids, makes your sound flat and compressed. Replace that with an eq pedal. It may be good for bass players, but not for guitar.

This Small pedal is magic , you can magnify both bass and treble tone to a brighter or darker one, in font of the amp or in the loop (S/R) or at the end of a serial / parallel pedal board ...... really efficient for signal ...... round and bright .... It can also reduce the loudness like an equalizer can do it ...a Great One