Other Guitar Distortion Effects Pedal, Black (OFM)

If you combine this with an AC30 and any bright guitar like a gold or maple top les paul or a jazzmaster with a maple neck, or any telecaster, you'll have the sound of three Pixies albums. It's stunning. You have your wave of mutilation in one pedal.

Feels flimsy and sounds crummy.

So after owning this pedal for four months, I feel like I can give a more accurate review. So here goes:Upon initially putting the Disnortion Micro on my studio pedal board, I was very impressed with this pedal. The array of sounds attainable from this little box had me very excited. It also played well with my Fulldrive 2 hitting it. I was almost ready to put this in my gig rig board until......One day I decided to use it for recording an overdubbed harmony. I took my studio board out of its case, turned everything on, and went to adjust the volume of this pedal above unity as it seems to come alive when set a little boosted, and I hear Pop, Crackle, Screech, crackle when I turn the volume. I check the volume control and notice that it feels loose in the chassis. I figure it's a bad solder joint, that the pot isn't affixed to the chassis, but instead to the board.What do I find? I find that the pot is soldered sturdily to the pcb, but the actual part that turns in the pot is very loose. This explains the noise as it is due to intermittent opens as you turn it through its sweep range.Keep in mind that this pedal has sat stationary on my pedal board in my studio for four months. Said board has been put in its case when not in use. I have no children running around the house tearing up things (if we did have kids, they wouldn't be allowed to act like hellions but that's another subject for another time), and the list goes on.I bought this pedal from another retailer on black Friday for $50. Does that excuse the poor q.c.? No. What it does is really $#@% me off when I think that I could have paid full price which is $110-$120 for this p.o.s. only to have it fail due to it being assembled with sub par components. If you look at the box it says designed in the U.S. and assembled in China. Yet they are charging boutique prices for something that they paid pennies on the dollar to manufacture. Shame on Pigtronix. I am so glad that I didn't pull the trigger and buy the Philosopher's Tone.To put this whole thing in perspective. I have had my Boss BF-2 since '84. It has had everything but a direct hit from an RPG and just plain keeps doing its job admirably. If l had paid full price for this pedal it would have cost me the same as my FULLDRIVE 2 MOSFET. When I open my FD2, I see high quality pots, switches, a hand signature from the person who built it, and know I am supporting workers here in the good ole USA. Same price, radically different examples of a "boutique" pedal.