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(More customer reviews)I've had this pedal for nearly 4 years and I love it today as much as I did the first day it arrived. First off, I play through a Fender Hotrod Deville 212 plugged into a 4x12 cab with celestion vintage 30 speakers. I mostly play a Gibson SG special with stock pickups. The crunch box through this rig turns my Fender amp into a screaming Marshall Plexi or JCM 800 depending on where I set the gain. The gain is very useable at all settings. If you want a very plexi-like, raw crunch, keep the gain below 12 o'clock. 12 o'clock and up and the gain will get a little less crunchy and a little more fuzzy, but then again, a real Marshall amp is the same way. Tonally this pedal is NOT transparent. It adds some chunky bass and mids to give you that classic marshall sound. There is an internal presence knob that you have to unscrew the back off to get at; honestly, it's fine where it's at, but I've adjusted mine a few times and it would've been nice to have a knob on the outside to facilitate the process. The volume knob pretty aggressive, and it will raise your volume in a hurry. The construction is very sturdy, the switch is solid, I've used this pedal A LOT and never had a problem. I can't comment on how long battery life is, mine has always been plugged into an adapter.
I could not be more satisfied with this pedal. It does what many other pedals, including the marshall-line pedals (which I own) claim to do, but ultimately fail to pull off, which is to make my non-marshall amp scream with the best of Jim's creations.
Edited to add: Since writing this review I purchased a Bugera 1990 head, which is basically a Marshall JCM 900 with a lower price tag. I thought my crunch-box-using days were over. But then on a whim I decided to try out the crunch box as a boost, and "Voila"!, we have lift-off. Turning the gain down(so it's at most a quarter of the way up), and simply adjusting volume and tone to taste, the crunch box works as a great boost to my already high-gain amp. Usually "distortion" pedals don't mesh well with already distorted amps (as opposed to "overdrive" pedals, which conversely are designed for that purpose), but as long as you keep the gain on the pedal pretty low the crunch box works great. I will add again that this is NOT a transparent sounding pedal; and when I call it a boost I don't mean it's a clean boost; this is a British/Marshall boost. You'll still get the extra (but not over the top) bass, mids, and (depending where you set the tone knob) highs. The crunch box takes my amp from rockin' to roarin', and I'm loving it more than ever.
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Simple and straight forward, just gain, tone and volume. The MI Audio Crunch Box has some similarities to the Tube Zone, in the sense that the design is based on a multiple clipping architecture (the signal is clipped 3 times). However, there are significant differences which make these two pedals sound quite different from each other. The Tube Zone distortion is designed to have a very 'broad' sonic footprint. The Crunch Box distortion on the other hand has a strong mid-presence to it, similar to the great British amps.
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