Michael Kearney

Amazing tone, takes pedals so well, brings out the nuances of the guitar. Love it clean and dirty.

Amazing fuzz, can dial in so many sounds: harsh to velvety smooth!!

Love playing this guitar; great garage sound, smooth, feels and sounds so good.

Go to guitar when playing live: great tones, from postpunk to gentle country, love playing No Mourners on it.

The OCD reacts so well to your picking, a soft attack yields a wonderful clean sound, then go a bit harder and the dirty comes in. Also keeps your guitar sound like it should, you're playing a Strat, it sounds like a Strat, a Les Paul, it's a Les Paul.

This guitar gets most of its workout in the studio (recording original compositions: a mix of post-punk, indie, blues, rock, country, folk ...). Love how it can produce rich, smooth, warmth, and aggressive, piercing, snarls. Great sustain. The neck is great for leads and chords, really feels great. I love how it is *just* black and silver (with the brown of the rosewood, of course), not the typical image that comes up in a person's head when they think of a Les Paul, but for me, perfect.

Use it to sharpen clean tones or overdrive the tubes to a great growl - the toggle switch allows you to focus on the highs, the lows, or keep things flat - can shape the lows and highs independently with separate knobs, drive knob gets you from clean to Sabbath dirt.

Have used this on recordings, jams, and live; great build quality, unique and variable fuzz that can cut through for leads or laydown a carpet of fuzz which the other instruments and vocals can stand on.