This is probably the best (and last) distortion pedal I've ever played through. It's replaced every gain pedal on my board, and every distortion channel on all of my "high gain" amps. Played through a very clean channel, it sounds completely killer. Super articulate in all settings, way more gain than you'll need--much better to back it off than needing more. Same with the EQ- very wide sweeps on all 3 allow you to dial it in with any amp. The OD side can drive an overdriven amp so nicely as a boost (kills my SD1, which was already great). Extremely versatile. This one is definitely a gem. Just perfect. Only drawback is I don't see how you can swap the tube. But preamp tubes can last a lifetime, so I don't foresee this as a problem. Read more

I recently purchased the Friedman IR-X. Had it sitting right next to my Blackstar dual distortion. The Blackstar blows the Friedman away, if you disagree you you don't own a dual distortion so you don't know anyway. I was able to replicate every tone that came out of the Friedman with the Blackstar, the same is not true in the opposite direction because the Friedman does not have anywhere near as much gain as the Black Star. I returned the overpriced, noisy Friedman. Dept. 10 wins, try again Dave. Read more

Been wanting one of these for my pedal board for quite some time, long time user of Blackstar amplifications, very versatile Read more

This is the distortion pedal you've been looking for. Period. End of discussion. It says dual distortion but it's much more than that. I plugged this beast into several amps(Bugera tube head, Joyo Zombie 2, Orange Micro Dark, and my latest purchase the Hughes and kettner stompman) and it sounded ridiculously awesome. Each side of the distortion pedal, Gain 1 and Gain 2, offer different levels of distortion along with the EQ and tone shaping knob. For each side there's a switch, down is lower distortion up is heavier distortion. Gain 1 switch down is a sweet dirty blues tone that borders on vintage rock when you dial up the Gain. Switch up and you've got vintage rock to modern rock. Gain 2 down and you're hitting hard rock and metal, up you're at metal and core/industrial/djent tones. I run almost maxed out on Gain 2 with my 7 string and it's got a tight bottom end, smooth mids and articulate highs. With the tone shaping and EQ I can dial in and there's no mud coming out of the speaker. It's got the warmth, sound and responsiveness I've been looking for for years. 15 minutes of playing through this pedal and I pulled my other distortion pedals off my board along with my overdrive. For grins I ran this through my Hughes and kettner stompman and disabled the preamp section so it became just a power amp and used it to drive just the Blackstar dual distortion with nothing else to color the tone and it sounded amazing at all levels. Buy it, and you won't regret it. Read more

Ever heard of liquid smooth distortion?? This has it!!! Not grainy or too fuzzy its perfection! Read more