On first impressions, it's an interesting thing with more versatility than many people give it credit for. Its selling point is the crazy over-the-top fuzz sound that you get when you max everything out, but I tried it like you'd try a Fender amp: set all the knobs around halfway and work from there. The blend control doesn't seem to go completely transparent (it blends the fuzz and a not-quite-bypass in other words), but that on its own makes it worth a shot as a bass fuzz before you get onto the gain and tone knobs.
If you want snarly, vicious "Touch Me I'm Sick" superfuzz toanz with an unpredictable octave effect then yes, it can do that. I also think it can also do lots of other cool things too though. Such as piss off the tattooed douche who hammered on my living room window to complain about the noise when I got this thing home (I'd already decided to move before that point, btw
).As for the volume drop issue, I'm not sure where people are coming from. Mine may have been modded already, or maybe the RIs were altered during the production run, because it sounds plenty loud enough for me (and plenty loud enough for the prick upstairs). Unless there's a volume drop on certain settings and not others, which I admit could be a bit annoying because it's a fuzz that likes to be tweaked.
I'm still on a bit of a fuzz collecting binge though...I'm going to hunt down a Dano French Toast and eventually wind up with one of those Bee Baa clones that Black Cat do. In the meantime, I'm going to have some fun with this.
