This is a beautiful pedal. All three modes are unique and great sounding - the tone at noon provides a pretty transparent dirt, with the top one being a bit less compressed and more grungy, and the bottom one more saturated, like a Marshall amp. The middle one is similar to the Marshall but with more present mids - it is the "tighter" because of that, but I prefer to Eq down the chain. The only fault is that at *very* high gain it is a bit noisier than other circuits with similar gain. But I thi...