This exciting new MXR Super Badass Distortion is the award-winning Designed of MXR® Custom Badass team, the Super Badass Distortion puts decades of 100% analog distortion at your feet. With its highly responsive Distortion control, the Super Badass covers a full spectrum, from early ’70s low gain overdrive to modern “scooped” metal distortion and every shade of dirt in between. Once you’ve dialed in your desired amount of crunch, you can use the Bass, Mid, and Treble controls to finely sculpt your sound. This Super new Badass Distortion features true bypass switching and comes ready for the road with the sturdy housing and durable components that MXR is known for. At the end distortion pedal right out of the box that has some balls, with clarity that I've been looking for in a dirty/crunch effect. Great warm crunch with lots of headroom!" - Bill Kelliher / Mastodon. Some of the specialty like Versatility With this highly responsive Distortion control, the Super Badass covers a full spectrum, from early ’70s low gain overdrive to modern “scooped” metal distortion and every shade of dirt in between. And with EQ Control Once user dialed in your desired amount of crunch, you can use the Bass, Mid, and Treble controls to finely sculpt your sound. Although True Bypass Super Badass Distortion features true bypass switching and comes ready for the road with the sturdy housing and durable components that MXR is known for. the Super Badass Distortion puts decades of 100% analog distortion at your feet. With its highly responsive Distortion control, the Super Badass covers a full spectrum, from early '70s low gain overdrive to modern "scooped" metal distortion and every shade of dirt in between. Once you've dialed in your desired amount of crunch, you can use the Bass, Mid, and Treble controls to finely sculpt your sound. In which the Super Badass Distortion features true bypass switching and comes ready for the road with the sturdy housing and durable components that MXR is known for. While most distortion and overdrive pedals provide only one or two really good sounds, the MXR Super Badass delivers an encyclopedia of incredible tones that are perfect for rock, blues, metal, punk and much more. With the distortion control all the way down and the output control at 12 o’clock and higher, the pedal produces a bold, beefy clean boost. The tone gets more crunchy as the distortion control is turned up to about 10 o’clock, and from there it proceeds into the glory and roar of harmonically rich, saturated distortion.The EQ section of this exciting MXR Super Badass Distortion is brilliantly voiced, providing an impressively vast range of tones with nary a bad sound to be found. Boosting the bass control makes the tone bigger but never flabby or farty, and when it’s turned down it never gets wimpy or too thin. The treble control covers a palette from dark (but not muddy) to razor sharp (but not piercing). The the magic resides, providing wonderfully boxy, vocal-like tones without annoying nasal overtones (think Brian May’s classic treble booster solo tones). With the distortion and mid controls all the way up and the bass and treble at noon, the pedal nails classic Boston tones, while maxing the bass and treble and minimizing the mid delivers Dimebag dementia. Even maximum distortion settings clean up as the guitar’s volume is backed down, and extraneous noise is nonexistent.