This uber distortion easily beats all the pedals I've tried before... its not even close. There is a built in noise gate, so its quiet as a mouse if you want it to be. It does suck the juice, I got about 2 hrs playing threw 1 nine volt, so I hooked it up to my 1 spot. I match the uber pedal with an MXR 10 band EQ and play it on a Marshall JCM 2000 DSL and it sounds killer!

I just got this pedal, its my first. And I spent my 2 months worth of allowance to get this. When I play with my band we play the usual, nice clean then distorted, and when I turn this baby on it just blows me away. I love the sound especially with any Metallica or Sum 41 song. It's great and worth every penny.

I just got this and I have no noise problem whatsoever. I use an ENGL fireball tube amp with this. It's very close to the sound of my distortion channel. My amp is very similar to the Uberschall amp which this pedal is trying to mimic(not gritty enough). It does a pretty good job. It was basically plug-n-play for on my amps clean channel. I'm not sure why other people are having terrible noise problems. I don't even have to use the built in gate, but if I do it is dead silent. If you are experiencing noise and you tried everything...I must ask if you tried new pickups? Imported guitars/pickups are notorious for noise problems due to poor wiring, bad shielding, and cheap electronic parts(vol/tone pots). Things I didn't like: I put new battery in... played for 30mins and then it started cutting in and out as well as off/on! I was like crap it's a lemon. It turns out this thing is just a big juice hog! I used my universal power adapter and it's working normal again. I can't believe they don't include an AC adapter because it's such a battery killer. The only other pedal I ever experienced this from was a Frantone Hepcat boutique pedal. The 2nd thing I don't like are the controls. They are cheap plastic and could be snapped off. I don't know why they took the cheap way out on the controls because the entire housing is metal?!

Alright, well, let's see here. The ONLY two problems I've ever had with this pedal are the fact that it chews up 9 volt batteries like a monster, and that when set at noise gate 0 (in order to achieve A-class pinched harmonics), the feedback and noise is unbearably loud. Both problems, can be fixed, though. Go and buy a 9 volt power supply, and don't play heavy metal! Problem solved! All in all, great distortion.

I was quite afraid when I decided to buy it cause I've heard many (very different) opinions about it. When I first plugged it in I was even disappointed. But after messing around for a while I found that I can set almost every kind of gain.I couldn't believe that it is so effective - it makes absolutely no noises. I recommend it to everyone playing heavy stuff.