"I love you idea of these preamp pedals. I bought two of them and have returned both. The UK gold and the US gold 100. They sound pretty good, but they don’t clean up with the volume control at all, and on the clean channel, they have this annoying, digital, or other sort of fuzz so whenever you hit a cord and the cord dies out, there’s still this buzzing undertone, which makes it completely unusable for recording and live sound"

"Sounds very much like playing through an amp, but more convenient. Instead of hauling an amp to mic, I dropped this on my pedal board. Anything in the loop just goes after this pedal but before the DI. It weighs about a thousandth what my tube amp weighs and lets the engineer control the monitors instead of me competing with the other amps on stage. Also, I have this Marshall-ish one and the Vox-ish one so I can switch between radically different tones without fussing with either two heavy amps or my digital board. Each one wants its own >300 mA line to the voodoo, but worth it. At a typical bar gig you won’t have the kind of audiophile audience who could tell the difference between this and the real thing anyway. Definitely worth the money and the pedal board real estate."

"This little pedal cranks! I've got it in my pedal board after my MXR micro amp, Mojo-Mojo, then before the Mooer Eleclady, Chorus, Mooer Echoverb and Drum looper and then through a Mooer Baby Bomb. It's a great travel rig and the sound is very versatile. Good strong cleans and plenty of crunch all the way into high gain. Love this pedal."