I was recently shop­ping around for an over­drive pedal at my local music shop. I tried out a T.C. Elec­tronic Clas­sic Booster + Dis­tor­tion this pedal is nice. Really nice. I have an Epi­phone SG run­ning through a Traynor amp, so that’s the setup I had going on in the store just to make sure every­thing sounds good together.

While this thing costs more than my ampli­fier you get what you pay for. This was brought into sharp focus when I com­pared it with some Boss ped­als. The Clas­sic Booster + Dis­tor­tion sound was like a fine cream while the oth­ers I tried were cof­fee whitener. The incor­po­rated noise gate was really nice; it took out all my fin­ger noise. There are enough set­tings to get a wide range of sounds mak­ing it a ver­sa­tile pedal to have in the chain.

If you’re sav­ing up your hard earned money to buy some dis­tor­tion for your gui­tar, then I’d rec­om­mend you take this one out for a test drive. You may forgo the the cheaper ped­als and save a lit­tle longer to get this. I know I’ll be sock­ing away to have it.

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