Classic Tone (Sonically and Visually)

This pedal is ubiquitous to distortion guitar tone. Its sound is classic and its color is classic. It has been on countless tracks that we all love. A benchmark in the industry!

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One of the best

If it is good enough for Paul Gilbert, then it is good enough for any rock musician. Over the years I used many other distortion pedals. The others ain't with me anymore. This one stayed. It is exceptionally good at boosting an already overdriven marshall amp.

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My First Pedal, Still A Favorite

This was actually the first pedal I ever owned maybe 25 years ago. I had seen it pop up not so much awash in a sea of pedals on the stage, but as a single pedal running through the front of the amp. I too was like many that viewed it as a severely limited pedal with two knobs, but years later I finally realized what this pedal was. It's not meant to be dropped in-line into an economy amp so you can sound like Eddie, it's definitely an augment for an already great amp. You can get those sizzling hot leads, and even those fuzzy, fat chords out of your amp with one kick of the switch. If you can tame certain aspects with noise reducers or sculpt it out a but with an EQ pedal, you can take your sound some place it's never been before while staying in your comfort zone. Or you can just slam it through the front of that favorite high-end amp you've played for years and give it a second life with this classic pedal.

Another winner from MXR

I have used other distortion pedals, but this is by far my favorite. I had one for many, many years and when it finally fell apart, I got myself another one without hesitation. It is easy to control the amount you want and goes from just slightly gritty to out and out distortion heaven! Built like a tank, like all the MXRs (as you can see, I have several)

Great Pedal

This is a great standard distortion pedal. This isn't a low gain pedal and isn't a fuzz and doesn't go crazy like overdrive. So to say this pedal is great for distortion. This is also a nice simple and not too costly pedal. But I also like pedals that I can tweak around with a lot, this pedal doesn't offer too much of that (with only having an output and distortion knob), this clearly isn't the pedal for that but if you need a good simple distortion pedal this is the one to get.

Tearing it up!

This is a great sounding distortion pedal. I use it with my X0xb0x to tear up my Acid bass lines. It adds a lot of lovely nastiness and energy. I love it!

Sounds like the old ones

Only without the noise. You should have the amp cranked for it to do its trick.

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It's just crazy stuff

love this lotion because it can become just mad and unmanageable and tear up everything that sees and hears and creates utter madness

classic fuzzy distortion

The groovy folks at MXR got it right in the 70's. However this is less versatile than DS-1.

heavy

bought off my session guitar playing friend as he had 2 i like the dirt you get from these