And to be clear -- the thing is tuned to sound fantastic with knobs maxed. Lots of grunt and girth. No complaints there. I really dig it with fuzz and drive up. But since they're on the outside, I guess I was expecting more sounds by tweaking knobs. And as (I think) I said before, the drive does work with the fuzz knob maxed. It's almost like a fine adjust for the fuzz control -- controls the thickness and fullness of the fuzz but in general doesn't make a huge different -- more like changing shades of the same basic sound, tuning it to best fit. But the fuzz, if backed off any more than a hair greatly reduces the drive knob's range and with the fuzz backed off to about 3 o'clock or below (to noonish) I'm getting a farty "abrupt choking of the distorted signal" and with the fuzz below noon, even with the drive up, I pretty much get clean tone.
Anyway, I feel like I shouldn't voice anything that could be perceived as critical here as folk don't take too kindly to it but this has been my honest experience with the pedal. Now I need to decide whether to stick with it or go back to a meathead for my big raunchy fuzz face tones as that one makes more sense to me at the moment. Will give it some more time though to see if the big lug grows on me
