This was the first stopmbox I acquired, I just liked its sound from then until now. If you do not like the stock version, you should know that this pedal greatly improves all its sound properties by replacing the diodes involved in generating the distortion effect. The ones that it brings installed from the factory are not bad, but those of Germanium give it a more spectacular sound, and I honestly believe that this is the real propuse of any stompbox: define our best sound.

This pedal is something that I always carry in my pedalboard, I like this pedal because its price is accessible, its quality is good, its sound qualities are positive, but especially: because in almost any amplifier it usually sounds pretty good. There is no incompatibility with other pedals.

In my chain of effects, I used the Guv'nor 2+ just as if I had a "mid gain" Overdrive, but I know that if I need to get a plus/extra drive there is a little more, there is still some levels to keep pushing on the gain knob.

I occasionally add an EQ or some other pedal that serves as a "Booster", without being a "Booster" as it could be according to the musical context: a "Fuzz" with the attenuated drive, another more aggressive distortion, a compressor to rescue the lost signals and generate the illusion of greater volume, a fixed "Wah Wah" Jimmy Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Slash, Zakk Wilde, Kirk Hammett, Jimmy Page, or just a very subtle "Phaser" Van Halen's style.

Despite it is a hard-clipper you can get very smooth overdrive sounds from it, also try it on rather much gain and then dial back the volume of your guitar. Also sounds great when hit by another low gain OD like a Bluesbreaker 2 or an Boss SD 1, or by another distortion (DS-1 for example). It takes some time to dial in a good sound, but when you have it you don't want anything else.

It is a very versatile pedal. from a clean / clean boost through an overdrive to a distortion. is one of the pedals that most comply with the concept of an amplifier on a pedal, and is true to the Marshall sound. the only bad thing that you find in this pedal is that it lacks brightness it would be good if the treble control had more range

I don't own a Marshall stack so can't claim that this emulates the tone of one. However when I play my Les Paul through it it makes me want to play Thin Lizzy. Great tone shaping options and built like a tank. Would look at this before some of those small cheap Chinese pedals for value for money unless space is at a premium on your board.

This one I got from Ilija, Brigand bassist, as a gift somewhere in 2011. It`s pretty good for semi gain, and for microphonia noise(which I use frequently) with primary distortion turned on, but on full gain is very muted on higher freq and dull sounding.

If you're a Marshall fan, this is the pedal to get. You can get most Marshall tones you'd want from this little guy and nobody will notice it's just a pedal. Shhh. It's out secret Keep it!

Gives really good marshall tones. Heaps of variety, bass nob needs to stay low as it muddies the tone, little bit of it sounds good, deep nob is awesome, treble isn't harsh, though I would like it to go abit higher. 10/10!!!

Wouldn't say this is iconic, although it is, it has a nice warm overdriven tone for leads, but i always needed to setup controls in some kind of way, and the controls aren't very price, but it does the job,

my problem with it is it is hard to get a good overdriven tone for lead and rhythm together; when playing rhythm, especially using full or open chords, this pedal sounds a bit on the muddy side. but for leads, you can always hear a saurian-ish tone to it.

First pedal I ever bought, and it's still on my board...

I got this for a marshall amp overdrive alternative and it delivers however it took a long time to find the right sound

The first pedal I ever bought and it's still with me. It goes where I go.

It's a distortion that does a fine distortion job, but nothing more than that. Not at all a sound sticks out for quality. I'd call it average.

I really love, it gives the classic marshall distorted sound

Great tone available. Flexible EQ dials. Do need noise gate for heavier gain settings but then it becomes incredibly versatile.

Really edgy distortion sound if you want those fast riff power chords on a strat

In combination with ODB-3 the sound was insane. Looking forward to play around with it more...