I had one of these, it is more of an overdrive and it was a great pedal to kick up the gain for a lead. My only gripe was it didn't sound good for songs where i wanted to keep the pedal engaged and roll the volume off, it was to trebly for me in that range. I traded it for a keeley modded blues driver that more satisfied my needs at the time. But you know different setups make different tones and everyone's ear is different, i actually had vintage noiseless pickups when i was using that pedal, and i think that was more of my problem than anything. I never could get those to sound like i wanted them to .