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Aria OD-10 Overdrive

Positive: Decent sounding, mid humping OD.
Negative: With horrible switching system.

Arion MDS-1 Distortion (Reissue)

Positive: Great boosting distorion.
Negative: If you can get past the plastic.

Arion MOC-1 Octave (RI, grey/yellow label)

Positive: For the price, probably the best OC-2 style octaver
Negative: Plastic, but not too cheap feel

Arion MTE-1 Tubulator (Reissue)

Positive: Good sounding tubescreamer derivative.
Negative: Plastic.

Arion SCH-Z Stereo Chorus

Arion SCO-1 Stereo Compressor (First issue, MIJ)

Arion SDI-1 Stereo Distortion

Arion SMM-1 Stereo Metal Master

Arion SOD-1 Stereo Overdrive (Sri Lanka RI)

Artec LE-BBT Black Battle

Positive: Ok sounding distortion with soaring highs.
Negative: Bad, hollow low end and broken sounding clipping.

Axtron OCT-5 Octaver

Positive: Decent down octave distortion tones
Negative: But at under unity level

Barber Direct Drive

Barber Silver L.T.D.

Positive: Airy mid-gainer with tender tone control
Negative: Could have been fitted in smaller box

Barber Tone Press - Parallel Compressor

BBE 601 Stinger

Behringer V-Tone BDI21 Bass Amp Modeler - Driver - DI

Positive: 1:1 with Tech21 Bassdriver
Negative: Horrible switching

Behringer VT911 Vintage Tube Overdrive - Vacuum Tube Overdrive

Positive: Decent power supply that can be used with other pedals.
Negative: Otherwise.. No.

Bespeco VP-W Weeper (Blue label)

Positive: Working super cheap wah
Negative: Extremely cheap feel

Boss AC-2 Acoustic Simulator

Positive: As a novelty item, but...
Negative: Not that usable...

Boss BD-2 Blues Driver

Positive: Great sound.
Negative: It's a Boss.

Boss BF-2 Flanger

Positive: Decent, usable.
Negative: No scent or taste.

Boss BF-2B Bass Flanger

Positive: Decent flanger for full frequency range.

Boss CE-2 Chorus (TW)

Positive: There is a reason for the hype lasting decades.
Negative: ACA supply requirement.

Boss CE-2B Bass Chorus

Positive: CE-2 + blend. Beautiful sounding chorus!
Negative: ACA supply requirement.

Boss CE-3 Chorus

Positive: Good basic stereo chorus.
Negative: LFO speed range is from too slow to slow.

Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble

Positive: Great unique features.
Negative: It's an all digital Boss.

Boss CH-1 Super Chorus (Later, digital version.)

Positive: Good controls.
Negative: No personality.

Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer

Positive: Modern standard VCA-based comp.
Negative: Dull and heartless.

Boss DD-3 Digital Delay

Negative: Cold, unnatural sound

Boss DD-7 Digital Delay

Positive: Feature packed and king in its price range.
Negative: Rather heartless.

Boss DF-2 Super Feedbacker & Distortion ('85 JPN, Super Feedbacker & Distortion)

Positive: On-demand rising feedback as a feature!
Negative: Not much.

Boss DN-2 Dyna Drive

Negative: Rather boring, overengineered distortion

Boss DS-1 Distortion

Positive: Classic that can be modded to be even better.
Negative: Hollowish, but not totally useless. Low output level.

Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion

Positive: Moderate gain and fat sounding distortion.
Negative: It's a Boss.

Boss DSD-3 Digital Sampler/Delay

Positive: Decent delay, with reasonable highs

Boss FBM-1 Fender '59 Bassman

Positive: Decent modeling.
Negative: Slightly digital tone.

Boss FW-3 Foot Wah

Positive: Not much.
Negative: Massive size, narrow sweep, not much good

Boss FZ-3 Fuzz

Boss FZ-5 Fuzz

Positive: Decent modeling and good sounds.
Negative: Slight digital residue on tone.

Boss GE-7 Equalizer

Positive: Powerful 7-band EQ
Negative: It's a Boss

Boss GE-7B Bass Equalizer

Positive: Graphic EQ with decent power and frequency ranges

Boss HF-2 Hi Band Flanger

Positive: Interesting features.
Negative: Which do not deliver.

Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal (Early TW-version, leading zero serial (1988))

Positive: Classic for a reason
Negative: Annoying power supply requirement

Boss HM-3 Hyper Metal

Positive: Upgraded HM-2 that imo sounds even better
Negative: Not much

Boss LM-2 Limiter

Boss LM-2B Bass Limiter

Positive: Very effective over-the-top compression.
Negative: Not Much.

Boss LS-2 Line Selector

Boss MD-2 Mega Distortion

Positive: Not too noisy high gainer

Boss ME-50 Guitar Multiple Effects

Positive: A few good thing
Negative: And at least same amount of bad

Boss ML-2 Metal Core

Positive: Not much.
Negative: Extremely bad sounding digital distortion

Boss MT-2 Metal Zone

Positive: Ok metal sound with reasonably good EQ
Negative: Not quite as good as its predecessors (HM-2, HM-3)

Boss MZ-2 Digital Metalizer

Positive: The best in its genre. Decent distortion.
Negative: Ok, but that's not enough.

Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor

Boss OC-2 Octave

Positive: "The" Octave.
Negative: Tracking could be better without a compressor in front of the unit.

Boss OD-2 Turbo OverDrive

Negative: Boring mid humper.

Boss ODB-3 Bass OverDrive

Positive: Good if you happen to play metal.
Negative: Not really an "overdrive".

Boss OS-2 OverDrive/Distortion

Positive: Decent as distortion, as an OD - not so much.

Boss PH-3 Phase Shifter

Positive: Versatile phaser modes
Negative: Lacks personality in its tone

Boss PS-5 Super Shifter

Positive: Feature packed with Whammy styled shifts (requires an exp pedal)

Boss PSM-5 Power Supply & Master Switch

Positive: Cheap to collect
Negative: There may have been a time for this, but it's long gone now

Boss PW-10 V-Wah

Positive: Great vibe modeling.
Negative: Feels plastic and cheapish.

Boss RV-2 Digital Reverb

Positive: Perfect reverb sounds.
Negative: Does not play well with other pedals.

Boss RV-3 Digital Reverb/Delay

Positive: Combined DD-3 and RV-2 styles.
Negative: Has DD-3 style delay.

Boss RV-5 Digital Reverb

Positive: Modernized RV-2, sounds great.
Negative: It's a Boss

Boss SD-1 Super OverDrive

Positive: Sounds close to TS
Negative: Sounds close to TS

Boss SD-1 Super OverDrive (FYA SD808 mod)

Boss SD-2 Dual OverDrive

Positive: Good OD sounds on both modes.
Negative: Not much bad about it.

Boss SYB-3 Bass Synthesizer

Positive: Great synthy sweeps. Works well on guitar.
Negative: Not much.

Boss TR-2 Tremolo

Positive: Standard for modern tremolos.
Negative: Nothing to write home about.

Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner

Positive: Classic for a reason.
Negative: Slightly sensitive for interference.

Caline CP-10 Hot Mushroom - Compresser (v2 graphics)

Caline CP-11 Puffer Fuzz (Light blue)

Caline CP-12 Pure Sky (Blue w/ white knobs)

Caline CP-16 Mr. Mark / Mark 4 (Later graphics)

Caline CP-18 Orange Burst / Overdrive

Caline CP-19 Blue Ocean

5.5

Caline CP-22 Purple Smoke - Clear Boost

Caline CP-25 Highway Man OD

Caline CP-30 Red Devil - Heavy Metal

Caline CP-32 Clear Veil - Overdrive Fuzz

Carl Martin Red Repeat (V1)

Positive: Basic digital delay with decent controls.
Negative: No personality.

Carlsbro Fuzz

Positive: Nearly perfect sound.
Negative: When maxed, it is only at unity level.

Carlsbro Minifex Flanger

Positive: Decent SAD512 flanger sounds
Negative: Plastic and runs on battery only

Carlsbro Minifex Phaser

Carlsbro Wah-Wah

Positive: Chrome looks great
Negative: Sounds like standard Cry Baby

Catalinbread Merkin (Original 2010 graphics)

Positive: Nice fuzz tones with personality
Negative: None.

Coron Cross Over 85

Danelectro Cool Cat CB-1 Pedalboard

Danelectro Cool Cat CC-1 Chorus

Positive: Pretty standard modern chorus
Negative: Not much

Danelectro Cool Cat CD-1 Distortion

Positive: Sounds very close to Maxon Distortion Master
Negative: Control placing sucks.

Danelectro Cool Cat CF-1 Fuzz

Positive: Sounds close to Frantone Peach Fuzz
Negative: Not much

Danelectro Cool Cat CF-2 Fuzz v2

Negative: Duller sounding that predecessor.

Danelectro Cool Cat CM-1 Metal

Positive: Soaring highs, powerful EQ.
Negative: Nothing too special.

Danelectro Cool Cat CM-2 Metal II

Positive: Soaring highs, powerful EQ.
Negative: Nothing too special.

Danelectro Cool Cat CO-1 Drive

Danelectro Cool Cat CO-2 Drive v2

Danelectro Cool Cat CT-1 Tremolo

Positive: In my opinion, better than Boss trem.
Negative: Not much.

Danelectro Cool Cat CTO-1 Transparent Overdrive

Positive: Timmy-like.
Negative: But not as good.

Danelectro Cool Cat CTO-2 Transparent Overdrive v2

Positive: Better sounding than the first version.
Negative: Not much.

Danelectro Cool Cat CV-1 Vibe (V1, no trim under battery slot)

Positive: Cheap modernized Uni-Vibe derivative
Negative: Faults in design (higher than uniity level, LFO ttaken down on bypass)

Danelectro DC-1 Cool Cat Chorus (18V)

Danelectro DC-1 Cool Cat Chorus (9V)

Positive: Lush
Negative: None.

Danelectro DD-1 Fab Tone

Positive: High gain distortion with well working EQ

Danelectro DDS-1 Sitar Swami

Positive: Great flange/octave-down/ringmod weirdness
Negative: Has practically nothing to do with sitar sounds

Danelectro DE-1 Dan-Echo

Positive: one of the greatest delays in its price range

Danelectro DF-1 Psycho Flange

Positive: Sounds awesome when paired with a fuzz
Negative: But not by itself.

Danelectro DJ-1 Pastrami Mini Overdrive

Positive: Good, underappreciated OD.
Negative: It is cheap and plastic.

Danelectro DJ-10 Grilled Cheese Distortion

Positive: None. Ugly sounding "fixed wah" distortion.
Negative: The worst design in the series.

Danelectro DJ-11 Lemon Pitcher Tuner

Positive: Not much.
Negative: Bad display and accuracy,

Danelectro DJ-12 Chili Dog Octave

Positive: Sounds very close to Boss OC-2
Negative: Other than it's plastic with cheap feel, none

Danelectro DJ-13 French Toast Octave Distortion

Positive: Cheap Tone machine tones
Negative: Other than it's plastic with cheap feel, none

Danelectro DJ-14 Fish & Chips 7-Band EQ

Positive: Powerful, cheap EQ
Negative: Plasticand cheap feel

Danelectro DJ-15 Chicken Salad Vibrato

Positive: Very nice sounding Uni-Vibe derivative
Negative: Plastic cheap feel

Danelectro DJ-16 Bacon'n'Eggs Mini Amp/Distortion

Positive: Distortion is not that bad
Negative: But the amp part is

Danelectro DJ-2 T-Bone Distortion

Positive: Not much.
Negative: The second worst design in the series.

Danelectro DJ-20 Rocky Road Spinning Speaker

Positive: Not much. Ugly distortion.
Negative: And the third...

Danelectro DJ-21 Black Coffee Metal Distortion

Positive: High gain.
Negative: Plasticky feel to the sound, but not the worst.

Danelectro DJ-22 Black Licorice Beyond Metal

Positive: Good features in small package.
Negative: Sounds very plastic.

Danelectro DJ-24 French Fries Auto Wah

Positive: Very good Dr. Q derivative.
Negative: Plastic.

Danelectro DJ-25 Blueberry Muffin Chromatic Tuner

Positive: Not much.
Negative: Bad display and accuracy.

Danelectro DJ-3 BLT Slap Echo

Positive: Unconventional fixed time delay design.
Negative: Plastic and not the greatest delay around.

Danelectro DJ-4 Corned Beef Reverb

Positive: Cheap.
Negative: In fact, it's a dual digital delay

Danelectro DJ-5 Tuna Melt Tremolo (V2, toggle switch in the middle)

Positive: In this price range, the tremolo.
Negative: Plastic.

Danelectro DJ-6 Pepperoni Phaser

Positive: Direct copy of modern MXR Phase 90.
Negative: Includes the weakness of its idol.

Danelectro DJ-7 MilkShake Chorus

Positive: Good analog chorus.
Negative: Plastic.

Danelectro DJ-8 Hash Browns Flanger

Positive: Good analog flanger.
Negative: Plastic.

Danelectro DJ-9 Surf & Turf Compressor

Positive: Cheap Ross/Dyna style OTA compressor in small package.
Negative: Plasticky.

Danelectro DO-1 Daddy O

Positive: Marshallesque glassy drive tones
Negative: Not much

Danelectro DSD-1 Shift Daddy (Black with flame graphics)

Positive: Novel idea of controlling delay time as a rocker pedal.
Negative: Pretty useless.

Danelectro DSR-1 Spring King

Positive: Nice vintage feel

Danelectro DT-1 Dan-O-Matic

Positive: Not much.
Negative: Bad display and accuracy,

Danelectro DTE-1 Reel Echo

Positive: Cool features and very nice digital delay/echo sounds

Danelectro DW-1 Dan-O-Wah (Blue)

Positive: Feature packed.
Negative: Cheap feel.

Danelectro DW-2 Trip L Wah

Positive: Great looks.
Negative: Plastic and the sound's not that impressive.

Danelectro LM-1 Black Paisley Liquid Metal

Positive: Great distortion with good down octave

Digiplay CH-70 Stereo Chorus

Positive: Underestimated chorus, from mild to wild.
Negative: Rather unreliable switching

Digiplay OD-30 Overdrive

Positive: Surprisingly good sounding, fat blues OD.
Negative: Unreliable switch.

DigiTech DBM Bad Monkey Tube Overdrive

Positive: TS on steroids style OD with good lows control
Negative: For the price, nothing

DigiTech DDM Death Metal Distortion

Positive: Metal grade gain with good EQ.
Negative: For the price, nothing.

DigiTech DGR Grunge Distortion

Positive: Sounds the same as early DOD grunges.

DigiTech DHH Hot Head Distortion

Positive: High gains in vain of Marshall tone.
Negative: Dull.

DigiTech DSB Screamin Blues Overdrive/Distortion

Positive: Decent cheap decendent of DOD Mystic Blues.
Negative: But not as good.

DigiTech WH-2 Whammy II

Positive: Probably the best in non-polyphonic whammys.
Negative: Wonky switches.

DigiTech WH-4 Whammy IV

Positive: Special groundbreaking effect.
Negative: Shortish sweep.

Dimavery EPDL-50 Delay

Positive: Noisy (slightly misbiased) 3208 analog delay.
Negative: Not the greatest analog delay, but for the price there's nothing negative.

DOD 250 Overdrive Preamp (90's reissue w/ JRC4558)

Positive: Great sound.
Negative: Power supply requirements, no LED.

DOD 525 Compressor Limiter

Positive: Amazing sound.
Negative: Ridiculous power requirement.

DOD 555 Distortion

DOD 565-B Stereo Chorus Vibrato

Positive: Fat & slush. Beautiful tone.

DOD 585-A Analog Delay

DOD DFX9 Digital Delay

Positive: Cool infinite repeats feature.
Negative: Not too great sounding unit.

DOD FX10 Bi FET Preamp

DOD FX100 Integrated Tube Even Harmonic Overdrive

Positive: TS style overdrive.
Negative: With nothing special and sluggish output level.

DOD FX101 Grind - Rectifying Overdrive w/ Echo

Positive: Great sounding distortion
Negative: With modern standard power jack, not much.

DOD FX102 Mystic Blues Overdrive

Positive: Nice glassy sounding overdrive.

DOD FX12 Tuna

Positive: Looks.
Negative: Bad accuracy.

DOD FX20 Phasor (Feb 1983)

Positive: Smooth sounding OTA phaser.

DOD FX22 Vibrothang Vibrato

Positive: Desired classic for a good reason.
Negative: Switch. And not even that is that bad.

DOD FX25B Envelope Filter

Positive: Good basic OTA-based envelope.

DOD FX30B Gate/Loop

Positive: Works as it should.

DOD FX33 Buzz Box

Positive: Awesome noise box.

DOD FX35 Octoplus

Positive: DOD flavoured octaver in style of Boss OC-2.
Negative: None.

DOD FX45 Stereo Reverb

Positive: Unique
Negative: Not that good tone

DOD FX50B Overdrive Plus

Positive: Not much.
Negative: Possibly the worst DOD overdrive

DOD FX52 Classic Fuzz

Positive: Foggy distortion tone.
Negative: Not that much a fuzz.

DOD FX53 Classic Tube

Positive: Fat sounding TS-style OD.

DOD FX55B Supra Distortion

Positive: Possibly the best in basic distortions.

DOD FX55C Supra Distortion

Positive: Great basic distortion with nothing special
Negative: Not Much.

DOD FX56 American Metal

Positive: Very good high gain metal distortion.

DOD FX56B Super American Metal

DOD FX57 Hard Rock Distortion

Positive: Nice features. Analog delay paired with a distortion.
Negative: Not too nice sounds. Dull.

DOD FX60 Stereo Chorus

Positive: Beautiful sounding analog chorus.
Negative: Power supply requirements.

DOD FX64 Ice Box Stereo Chorus

Positive: Good controls.
Negative: Rough and tight, not the best chorus.

DOD FX65B Stereo Chorus (Darker, early '97 version)

Positive: Decent, basic chorus
Negative: Quite dull.

DOD FX66 Flashback Fuzz

Positive: Decent opamp fuzz.
Negative: More of a distortion than a fuzz.

DOD FX68 Super Stereo Chorus

Positive: Mild, yet slushy chorus tones
Negative: Not for those who want it spicy

DOD FX69 Grunge Distortion

Positive: DS-2 style distortion taken over the limits.
Negative: Not that much.

DOD FX70C Corrosion (1st issue)

Positive: Massive tones.

DOD FX75-B Stereo Flanger

DOD FX76 Punkifier

Positive: Very personal, great sound

DOD FX80B Compressor/Sustainer (Attack)

Positive: Decent sounding classic
Negative: Power jack and battery door

DOD FX80B Compressor/Sustainer (Release)

Positive: Smooth, mild OTA compressor
Negative: Power jack and battery door

DOD FX86B Death Metal

Positive: Great metal gains with great bang for buck ratio.
Negative: Lacks in personality.

DOD FX91 Bass Overdrive

Positive: Good sounding bass OD. Similar to Digitech successor.

DOD FX96 Echo FX Analog Delay (US)

Positive: Very good sounding analog delay (MN3005)

DOD GFX75 Extreme Stereo Flanger

Positive: Great control range and great analog flange tone
Negative: While great, still rathet meh.

DOD YJM308 Yngwie Malmsteen Overdrive

Positive: Close to OD250.
Negative: Not close enough, plus power supply requirements, no LED.

Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi (V10 Reissue)

Positive: It's a Big Muff.
Negative: Size.

Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker

Positive: Tone bypass and wicker modes sound better than stock muff.

Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress (Reissue, external power supply)

5.5

Electro-Harmonix Double Muff

Positive: Good, fat distortion tones with decent gain control.

Electro-Harmonix Ego - Microphone Booster ('69 date stamp)

Positive: LPB circuit in vintage box.
Negative: Can't say anything bad.

Electro-Harmonix Germanium⁴ Big Muff Pi

Negative: wtf?

Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail

Electro-Harmonix LPB-1 Linear Power Booster (V5 graphics, two jacks no plug)

Positive: It's a vintage LPB.

Electro-Harmonix Lumberjack - Log Overdriver

Positive: Small and cheap.
Negative: Sounds horrible, almost like it's broken.

Electro-Harmonix Nano Bass Big Muff Pi

Positive: Form factor.

Electro-Harmonix Nano Bassballs - Twin Dynamic Filters for Bass (Modded)

Positive: Decent sounding envelope.
Negative: Not as good as Dr. Q.

Electro-Harmonix Nano Big Muff Pi

Positive: Finally, original BMP sounds in this size.
Negative: Not much, as it sounds and feels like V10.

Electro-Harmonix Nano Clone - Chorus

Positive: Ok chorus.
Negative: Not daisy chainable.

Electro-Harmonix Nano Doctor Q - Envelope Follower

Positive: Decent cheap envelope.

Electro-Harmonix Nano Hot Tubes Overdrive

Positive: Great CMOS distortion.

Electro-Harmonix Nano LPB-1 Linear Power Booster

Positive: Modern LPB. Not much that can go wrong.

Electro-Harmonix Nano Muff Overdrive (Red)

Positive: Great vintage-like OD with rich low frequency overtones
Negative: Not much

Electro-Harmonix Nano OD Glove

Positive: Probably the best OCD derivative for the price.
Negative: Not much.

Electro-Harmonix Nano Screaming Bird - Treble Booster

Positive: Soaring highs.
Negative: Cuts a lot of low end.

Electro-Harmonix Nano Small Stone - EH4800 Phase Shifter (Color/status in reverse -version)

Positive: Good OTA-based Phaser
Negative: Slightly darkish tone

Electro-Harmonix Nano The Mole - Bass Booster

Positive: Mild, usable low end boost
Negative: Could be a lot louder

Electro-Harmonix Neo Clone

Positive: Slushy.

Electro-Harmonix Octave Multiplexer (USA Reissue)

Positive: Well tracking octave down
Negative: Huge box

Electro-Harmonix Octavix

Positive: Like Octavia, but with a twist.

Electro-Harmonix Pulsar (Reissue)

Positive: Wide range.
Negative: Parts of the control range are unusable.

Electro-Harmonix Satisfaction Fuzz

Positive: Perfect for the price

Electro-Harmonix Small Clone - Full-Chorus

Positive: Ok chorus.
Negative: Big.

Electro-Harmonix Small Stone - Phase Shifter (USA Reissue)

Positive: Powerful OTA-phaser.

Electro-Harmonix XO Deluxe Bass Big Muff Pi

Electro-Harmonix XO Deluxe Memory Man - Echo / Chorus / Vibrato

Positive: Sounds great.
Negative: Power requirement.

Electro-Harmonix XO Germanium OD - Vintage Overdrive

Positive: Warm sounding "vintage warmer".
Negative: Not exactly an OD. At all.

Electro-Harmonix XO Graphic Fuzz

Positive: Decent set of features.
Negative: Rather dull sounding fuzz with 6 band EQ.

Electro-Harmonix XO Holy Grail Plus

Positive: Good sounding simple digital reverb.

Electro-Harmonix XO Holy Stain

Negative: Lag/latency on the digital side

Electro-Harmonix XO Little Big Muff Pi

Positive: It's a Big Muff in handy size.

Electro-Harmonix XO Octave Multiplexer

Positive: Sounds exactly like the big box reissue. Great.

Electro-Harmonix XO Stereo Clone Theory

Positive: Ok chorus/vibe.
Negative: Attack lag on analog delay.

Electro-Harmonix XO Stereo Electric Mistress

Positive: Working modern flanger.
Negative: Ok, but not great sounds.

Electro-Harmonix XO Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai

Positive: Tons of features.
Negative: Doesn't work with a supply that's not capable of 500mA output.

Fryer Brian May Treble Booster Touring

Positive: One sound for one purpose
Negative: As above.

Fuchs Plush The Royal Plush

FYA Electronics Apiformis Fuzztortion

FYA Electronics Trixie Malicious / Fancy Chance Fuzz

Guyatone HDm5 Hot Drive

HAO RD-1 Rust Driver (Toggle switch on face)

Hughes & Kettner Warp Factor

Positive: Great Marshallesque high gain distortion.
Negative: Annoying power supply requirement plus annoying size.

Ibanez 59 Standard Fuzz

Positive: Great sound
Negative: Low output level with modern equipment

Ibanez 95 Renometer

Positive: Loud
Negative: Huge box

Ibanez AD99 Analog Delay

Ibanez AF9 Auto Filter

Positive: One of the greatest envelopes in existance.
Negative: 6,3V electrolytic caps inside.

Ibanez AP7 Analog Phaser

Positive: Good, solid phaser.
Negative: Not special.

Ibanez AW5 Auto Wah

Positive: Interesting design.
Negative: Thin sounds.

Ibanez AW7 Autowah

Positive: Wild envelope.

Ibanez BB9 Bottom Booster

Positive: Amazing boost/driver sounds.
Negative: Sensitive to power fluctuations.

Ibanez BC10 Stereo Bass Chorus

Positive: Great bass chorus.

Ibanez BC5 Bass Chorus

Positive: Underrated, very good bass chorus.

Ibanez BCL Bi-Mode Chorus

Positive: Not so common dual LFO chorus. Great sounds.
Negative: Not much.

Ibanez BN5 Black Noise

Positive: Underrated high gainer.
Negative: Plastic and cheapish feel.

Ibanez BP5 Bass Comp

Positive: Great VCA based compressor
Negative: Plastic

Ibanez CD10 Delay Champ

Positive: Extremely sweet sounding analog delay
Negative: With nothing wrong with it

Ibanez CD5 Cyberdrive

Positive: Not much.
Negative: Bad sounding fixed wah style metal distortion.

Ibanez CF7 Stereo Chorus/Flanger

Positive: Just an opinion, but this is the best flanger in Ibanez catalog.
Negative: No downsides.

Ibanez CM5 Classic Metal (Metal enclosure)

Positive: Great, creamy, fat metal tones.
Negative: Not much.

Ibanez CM5 Classic Metal

Positive: Great, creamy, fat metal tones.
Negative: Plastic.

Ibanez CP10 Compressor Sustainer

Ibanez CP5 Compressor

Positive: Great VCA based compressor
Negative: Plastic

Ibanez CP9 Compressor/Limiter (Silver label)

Positive: Very nice unit.
Negative: Not too great sound though.

Ibanez CPL Compressor/Limiter

Positive: Good sounding compressor

Ibanez CR5 Crunchy Rhythm (Metal enclosure)

Positive: Shines as a mild OD

Ibanez CS5 Super Chorus

Positive: Good chorus.
Negative: Plastic.

Ibanez CSL Stereo Chorus

Positive: Very good sounding chorus.

Ibanez DCF10 Digital Chorus/Flanger

Ibanez DCL Digital Stereo Chorus

Positive: Decent chorus tones, while somewhat boring unit

Ibanez DDL Digital Delay

Positive: Wide range of good delays.
Negative: None.

Ibanez DDL10 Digital Delay II

Positive: Good modes.
Negative: Sound is more "digital" than in other Ibanez delays.

Ibanez DDL20 Digital Delay III

Positive: Great modes.
Negative: Sound is more "digital" than in other Ibanez delays.

Ibanez DE7 Stereo Delay/Echo

Positive: Awesome delay.

Ibanez DE7 Stereo Delay/Echo (DE7C Pink)

Positive: Awesome delay in pink.

Ibanez DFL Digital Flanger

Positive: Sounds awesome, like inside massive iron snake

Ibanez DL10 Digital Delay

Positive: Standard delay with analog-like attack.
Negative: Not much.

Ibanez DL5 Digital Delay

Positive: Underrated standard delay with analog-like attack.
Negative: Plastic.

Ibanez DPL10 Digital Pan Delay

Positive: Dual panning delay as in ping-pong. Amazing special effect.
Negative: Not much.

Ibanez DS10 Distortion Charger

Positive: Wild distortion sounds.
Negative: Maybe a hint too trebly and mid honkin overall tone.

Ibanez DS7 Distortion

Negative: Nothing speacial. Had a lot more potential on the electronics.

Ibanez DSC10 Digital Chorus

Positive: Absolutely the chorus for goth rock.
Negative: Tone is in a cold side.

Ibanez EM5 Echo Machine

Positive: One of the best digital tape echo simulations in its price range.
Negative: Plastic.

Ibanez FC10 Fat Cat

Positive: Very nice sounding Rat derivative.
Negative: Not much.

Ibanez FL-301 Flanger

Positive: Amazing, versatile sound.
Negative: Power supply requirement.

Ibanez FL5 Flanger

Positive: Cheap, chopped down FL9/FLL.
Negative: Plastic.

Ibanez FLL Flanger

Positive: FL9 from L-series.
Negative: Not much bad.

Ibanez FZ5 60's Fuzz (SF5 Metal enclosure)

Positive: Very cool BMP/OD850 derivative.
Negative: None.

Ibanez FZ5 60's Fuzz

Positive: Cool BMP/OD850 derivative.
Negative: Plastic.

Ibanez FZ7 Fuzz

Positive: Modern fuzz, including great vintage tones.
Negative: Nope.

Ibanez GE-500 Graphic Equalizer

Positive: Powerful EQ operating on 18V

Ibanez GE10 Graphic EQ

Positive: Good EQ.

Ibanez GEL Graphic EQ

Positive: Pretty standard for a graphic EQ
Negative: Not much bad.

Ibanez LF7 Lo Fi

Positive: Special effect.
Negative: Not very good sounding one, but special.

Ibanez LM7 L.A. Metal

Positive: Strange specimen in Power series
Negative: But not that great tone.

Ibanez MF5 Modern Fusion (Metal enclosure)

Positive: Narrowly filtered distortion.
Negative: Like fusion music, crap.

Ibanez MF5 Modern Fusion

Positive: Narrowly filtered distortion.
Negative: Like fusion music, crap. Plus it's plastic.

Ibanez MS10 Metal Charger

Positive: Nice Metal base sound tone. Even better once modded.
Negative: Below unity level as stock.

Ibanez MSL Metal Screamer

Positive: Factory TS on steroids. Awesome.
Negative: None.

Ibanez MT10 Mostortion - Mosfet Distortion

Positive: Glassy drive sounds with apparent MOSFET vibe to its tone.
Negative: Hint of mid honk present.

Ibanez NB10 Noise Buster

Ibanez OT10 Octave

Positive: Standard octave divider with pseudo up octave.
Negative: Doesn't sound that good.

Ibanez PD7 Phat-Hed Bass Overdrive

Positive: Very good driver in its price range. Works well on guitar.
Negative: Not much.

Ibanez PDM-1 Modulation Delay

Positive: Great tone
Negative: Frustrating controls

Ibanez PDS-1 Distortion

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Ibanez PH10 Bi-Mode Phaser

Positive: Versatile phaser.
Negative: Not too lushy.

Ibanez PH5 Phaser

Positive: Simple, good phaser.
Negative: Plastic.

Ibanez PH7 Phaser

Positive: Pretty standard phaser.

Ibanez PL5 Powerlead

Positive: Underestimated lead distortion. Good.
Negative: But not great.

Ibanez PM7 Phase Modulator

Positive: From mild phase to massive ring-mod.
Negative: Not much.

Ibanez PPE-1 Parametric EQ

Positive: Great tone.
Negative: Interface. Plastic.

Ibanez PQ9 Parametric EQ

Positive: Powerful booster/cutter.

Ibanez PT-707 Phase Tone II (V1 Script logo)

Positive: Warm, not so mild slush
Negative: None.

Ibanez PT-999 Phase Tone

Positive: Warm, mild slush
Negative: Vintage specs, battery only

Ibanez PT9 Phaser

Positive: Ok phaser.

Ibanez RC99 Rotating Chorus

Ibanez SB7 Synthesizer Bass

Positive: From autowah to wild synthy sweeps.
Negative: Nope.

Ibanez SC10 Super Stereo Chorus

Positive: Great basic chorus.

Ibanez SF10 Swell Flanger

Positive: Great airplane sweeps.

Ibanez SH7 Seventh Heaven

Positive: Takes lower frequencies well.
Negative: Rather dull.

Ibanez SM7 Smashbox

Positive: Ibanez' answer to DOD Grunge with added noise gate

Ibanez SML Super Metal (1st issue)

Negative: Below unity level

Ibanez SML Super Metal

Negative: Below unity level

Ibanez SP5 Slam Punk

Positive: Highly underestimated, great sounding distortion.
Negative: Plastic and cheapish feel.

Ibanez SS10 Session Man

Positive: Decent distortion side. Parallel/Series switch.
Negative: Not the greatest chorus.

Ibanez SS20 Session Man II

Positive: Decent distortion side.
Negative: The delay is simply too short.

Ibanez STL Super Tube

Ibanez TC7 Tri Mode Chorus

Positive: Powerful chorus tones.

Ibanez TC999 Tube King Compressor

Positive: Powerful compressor and boost
Negative: Somewhat noisy

Ibanez TK999HT Tube King Distortion

Positive: Cheap in its genre. High gain with gate.
Negative: AC power requirements.

Ibanez TL5 Tremolo

Positive: Great sounding mellow tremolo.
Negative: Plastic.

Ibanez TM5 Thrashmetal

Positive: Great mid gain distortion. Underestimated unit.
Negative: Plastic.

Ibanez TM5 Thrashmetal (Metal enclosure)

Positive: As its plastic brother, without the downside.

Ibanez TS10 Tube Screamer Classic (Taiwan)

Positive: Sounds like any other TS.
Negative: Sounds like any other TS.

Ibanez TS10 Tube Screamer Classic (Taiwan, modded)

Positive: Sounds better than stock TS.

Ibanez TS5 Tubescreamer (modded)

Ibanez TS5 Tubescreamer

Positive: Sounds like any other TS.
Negative: Sounds like any other TS.

Ibanez TS5 Tubescreamer (Metal enclosure)

Positive: Sounds like any other TS.
Negative: Sounds like any other TS.

Ibanez TS7 Tubescreamer

Positive: Sounds like any other TS, with extras.
Negative: Sounds like any other TS.

Ibanez TS7 Tubescreamer (TS7C (Green))

Positive: Sounds like any other TS, with extras and limited edition colored box.
Negative: Sounds like any other TS.

Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer (2000's reissue)

Positive: Sounds like a TS.
Negative: Sounds like a TS.

Ibanez TS9DX Turbo Tube Screamer

Positive: TS with nice extra modes.

Ibanez WD7 Weeping Demon

Positive: Possibly the best in all wahs around.
Negative: It's big.

Ibanez WD7JR Weeping Demon Junior

Positive: Great wah.
Negative: Less features than its big brother.

Ibanez WH10v2 Wah

Positive: Great sounding wah.

In-Line Effects XE-752 Stereo Analog Delay / Stereo Chorus

ISP Technologies Fetish

Positive: Great sounding overdrive.

Jim Dunlop Cry Baby GCB-95 Wah Wah (GCB95 circuit in early 80s enclosure, TBP modded)

Positive: As TBP'd, good wah.
Negative: Easy to mod.

Jim Dunlop Cry Baby ZW-45 Zakk Wylde Signature Wah

Jim Dunlop JD-F2 Fuzz Face (Two separate versions, early 00s and early 10s.)

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Positive: Sounds like a Ge Fuzz Face should.
Negative: SMD components under the board.

Jimi Hendrix JH-F1 Fuzz Face

Positive: Sounds like a Si Fuzz Face should.
Negative: SMD components under the board.

Keeler Designs Push - Extremely Dynamic Overdrive

Korg PB-01 Pitchblack - Chromatic Tuner

Positive: Accurate and view works
Negative: Feels plasticky

Korg TNB-1 Tone Booster

Positive: From usable EQ to distortion.

Lell CH-9 Chorus

Positive: Great late 70's style chorus
Negative: With horrible switch system

Lell FL-3 Flanger

Positive: Great tone
Negative: Amazingly horrible switching

Mad Professor Little Green Wonder (Later HW)

Positive: Nice highly dynamic OD tones
Negative: Not much.

Mad Professor Mellow Yellow Tremolo (Later HW)

Mad Professor Snow White Auto Wah (Later HW)

Positive: Wide(ish) control range and not as swishy as many autowahs
Negative: Still not convinced

Malekko Vibrato

Marshall BB-2 Bluesbreaker II

Positive: Decent overdrive/dirty boost.

Marshall Drive Master

Positive: Great glassy sounding OD/Dist.
Negative: Switch feels cheap.

Marshall ED-1 Edward The Compressor

Positive: Underappreciated usable compressor.

Marshall EH-1 Echohead Delay

Positive: High bang for buck ratio. Good features.
Negative: Not much.

Marshall GV-2 Guv'nor Plus

Negative: Kills your headroom and highs as stock. A lot worse than its big brother.

Marshall JH-1 Jackhammer

Positive: Usable high gainer from OD to big distortion.

Marshall RF-1 Reflector Reverb

Positive: Great reverb with small box footprint. Lots of features.
Negative: Not much.

Marshall RG-1 Regenerator Modulation

Positive: Nice multimodulator.
Negative: Lacks in personality.

Marshall SV-1 Supervibe Chorus

Positive: Ok chorus with ok control range.
Negative: Stays in the shadow of VT-1.

Marshall The Guv'nor

Positive: Anther classic that didn't get the attention when released.
Negative: Reversed phase for the output.

Marshall VT-1 VibraTrem

Positive: Great sounding wobbler.

Maxon CP-101 Compressor (Black reissue)

Positive: Fine vintage tone
Negative: Not Much.

Maxon FL-9 Flanger

Positive: Classic for a reason.

Maxon OD-808 Overdrive (2008 Reissue)

Positive: Sounds better than most TS boxes

Maxon SM-9 Super Metal

Maxon SP-01 Spectrum/D

MG Music Thats Echo Folks com Pigs Tail (with 3 extra switches and 3 stomps)

MI Audio Blues Pro Overdrive (V3 w/ OD/Fuzz switch)

Positive: Good, solid sounding overdrive

Mighty Sound M1 Distortion (Social Distortion graphics)

Negative: You don't steal a band's logo....

Mighty Sound M2 Overdrive (V2 graphics)

Positive: Nice OD with similar sound & feel as AC booster.

Mighty Sound M3 Fuzz (Later, with blend/drive/vol/tone controls)

Mighty Sound M4 Chorus (Later version)

Positive: Ok chorus.

Mighty Sound M5 Delay (Later graphichs)

Positive: Good analog-like, darkish delay

Mighty Sound M7 Compressor (Later version)

Positive: Very good sounding compressor.

Mighty Sound M8 Flanger (Later graphichs)

Positive: Great control range

Mighty Sound PT-06 Pedal Tuner (Later graphichs)

Positive: good accuracy and sensitivity

Monkee Music Satan Distortion

Positive: It has "Satan" written on it!
Negative: Sound and plastic feel.

Mooer Audio (Pro series) ReEcho Pro

Mooer Audio (Pro series) Reverie Chorus

Mooer Audio The Wahter

Morley CCB Crystal Chorus

Positive: Good, personal sounding chorus
Negative: Annoying enclosure size

Morley DDB Diamond Distortion

Positive: Good overdrive tones in vein of Dist+/OD250 with tone control.
Negative: Box footprint.

Morley George Lynch Dragon Wah

Morley JDB Just Distortion Box

Positive: No controls of any kind!
Negative: Not that great of a distortion.

MXR M-101 Phase 90

Positive: Easy to mod.
Negative: Sounds horrible unmodded.

MXR M-104 Distortion+ (Block logo, 1977)

Positive: Smooth overdrive tones
Negative: Low output level

Noah's Ark Distortion "M"

Nobels DT-1 Straight Distortion (Old yellow)

Positive: Nice, big and fat sounding thing

nuX AB-3 Router Switcher

nuX AS-3 Modern Amplifier Simulator

Negative: Sounds a bit tamed

nuX AS-4 Amp Simulator

Positive: Well designed.
Negative: Cheap feel.

nuX CH-2 Vintage Chorus

Positive: Basic chorus, great for the price.
Negative: Somewhat dull.

nuX CH-3 Chorus

Positive: Good sound in affordable price range.
Negative: Extremely bad pots.

nuX CO-2 Vintage Compressor

nuX DS-3 Classic Distortion

Positive: Powerful sound.
Negative: Cheap pots.

nuX FB-2 Modern Freq. Booster

nuX FL-2 Vintage Flanger

Positive: Sounds and feels a lot like FL9.
Negative: Nope.

nuX FZ-2 Vintage Fuzz

Positive: Surprisingly good fuzz.
Negative: None.

nuX HG-5 Modern High Gain

Positive: Great controls on a great sounding distortion overtones.
Negative: Not much.

nuX HG-6 High Gain Distortion

Positive: Great sound in affordable price range.
Negative: Extremely bad pots.

nuX MF-6 Digital Multi FX

Positive: Versatile. Decent sounds.
Negative: Cheapish feel.

nuX Mod Force - Multi Modulation Effects

Positive: Versatile. High bang for buck ratio.
Negative: Cheap feel.

nuX OD-2 Vintage Overdrive

Positive: Sounds like a TS.
Negative: Still a TS.

nuX OD-3 Overdrive

Positive: Probably the cheapest TS9 clone out there.
Negative: Extremely bad pots.

nuX PH-2 Vintage Phaser

Positive: Good basic phaser.
Negative: Not much.

nuX PT-5 Tuner Pedal (Non-Nux branded Cherub version)

Positive: Accurate tuner.
Negative: Bleeds a bit in tuning mode.

nuX Time Force - Multi Digital Delay

Positive: Tons of features for extremely low price range.
Negative: Doesn't sound too great.

Pearl CO-04 Compressor

Positive: Ok vintage style comp.
Negative: Nothing spacial.

Pearl F-605 Electro Echo Analog Delay

Pearl OD-05 Overdrive

Positive: Classic for a reason.

Pearl PH-03 Phaser

Positive: Unconventional design, with good phase tones.

Pearl SU-19 Stereo Noise Suppressor

Positive: Working dual channel noise gate.

Peavey CMC-1 Companded Chorus

Positive: Extremely good sounding chorus.

Peavey HFD-2 Hotfoot Distortion

Positive: Great Rat derivative.
Negative: Power supply requirements.

Pigtronix EP-2 Envelope Phaser

Positive: Think outside the box. This is what you'll get.

Pro Co Rat 2 (Modern Reissue MIC)

Positive: It's a Rat with Rat tone.
Negative: As with all Rats, the sound gets mushy too easily.

Pro Tone Pedals Body Rot 2 (White and blood splatter graphics)

Positive: Decent Distortius Maximus derivative.

Radial Tonebone Hot British

Positive: Good controls.
Negative: Overrated distortion.

Ricken's FR-III Fuzz (Two identical versions)

Positive: Mean sounding Si-fuzz in the vein of later Tonebenders.

Rocktek ADR-01 Super Delay

Positive: Great sounding analog delay with decent delay times.
Negative: Plastic and cheap feel.

Rocktek CHR-01 Chorus (Blue label)

Positive: Good analog chorus.
Negative: In cheap box with very cheap feel.

Rocktek MWR-01 Metal Worker

Positive: Usable distortion sounds.
Negative: In cheap box with very cheap feel.

Rolls RFX-970 Vibraflange

Positive: Amazing sound. Possibly the greatest MN3027 flanger in existance.
Negative: Should receive an award for worst pots in a effect pedal.

Schaller TR-68 Tremolo (No LED)

Positive: Good control range
Negative: Fixed LFO wave

Seymour Duncan SFX-01 Pickup Booster

Positive: Good basic clean boost. Usable.

Seymour Duncan SFX-02 Tweak Fuzz

Positive: Good and fat fuzz sounds
Negative: Only slightly over unity

Solec DO-131 Distortion+O.D. (Black housing)

Positive: Powerful. Very powerful.

Sovtek/Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi (V8D small box, 4 screws)

Positive: Sounds like any other BMP.
Negative: Battery operation only.

Studio Series DS-01 Distortion

Systech Phase Shifter

Positive: Great ramp feature.
Negative: Rather boring phaser.

TC Electronic PolyTune - Poly-Chromatic Tuner

Positive: Accurate.

TC Electronic Röttweiler - Metal Distortion

Positive: Nice high gainer.
Negative: Useless gain control.

Tokai TMD-1 Metal Driver

Positive: Amazing, super-sturdy enclosure
Negative: Practically none.

Tokai TMD-2 Metal Driver

Positive: Decent OD/Dist.
Negative: Thin aluminum enclosure.

Tom's Line Engineering AAS-3 AC Stage - Acoustic Guitar Simulator

Positive: Sounds close to Boss AC-2

Tom's Line Engineering ABT-3 Black Teeth - Vintage Distortion

Positive: Rat tone

Tom's Line Engineering ABY-3 Bluesy - Vintage Blues Overdrive

Tom's Line Engineering ADR-3 Dumbler - Dumble Amp Simulator

Positive: Nice Zen-like OD.

Tom's Line Engineering AEB-3 Bass EQ - Analog 5-Band Equalizer

Tom's Line Engineering AEG-3 GT EQ - Analog 5-Band Equalizer

Positive: Ok 5-band EQ.

Tom's Line Engineering AFM-3 Firecream - Vintage Distortion

Tom's Line Engineering AGF-3 G-Fuzz - Vintage Germanium Fuzz

Positive: Fuzz Face tone
Negative: Under unity level

Tom's Line Engineering AGR-3 Greenizer - Vintage Overdrive

Positive: Nice TS alternative.

Tom's Line Engineering AHAR-3 Harmonizer - Harmonist / Pitch Shifter

Positive: For the price. Amazing.

Tom's Line Engineering AHOR-3 Holy War - Metal Distortion

Tom's Line Engineering AKF-3 Funk Machine - Auto Wah

Negative: quieter than unity

Tom's Line Engineering ALR-3 Liner - ABY Line Selector

Tom's Line Engineering AMC-3 Manic - High Gain Distortion

Positive: Decently voiced high gainer.

Tom's Line Engineering AMO-3 Mario - Bit Crusher

Positive: Fun, weird tones. Great novelty.

Tom's Line Engineering AMS-3 Mod Station - Modulation Ensemble

Positive: Decent sounding multi-modulation

Tom's Line Engineering AMX-3 Matchbox D.I. (with Cab Sim)

Positive: Nice tool box with very decent cab sim circuit.

Tom's Line Engineering AOS-3 Octpus - Polyphonic Octave

Positive: For the price, WTF.
Negative: None.

Tom's Line Engineering AOV-3 Ocean Verb - Digital Reverb

Positive: Decent tones.

Tom's Line Engineering APE-3 Pure Echo - Digital Delay

Positive: Very good sounding digital delay with good fixed modulation.
Negative: Not Much.

Tom's Line Engineering APN-3 Plexion - Brit-Stack Simulator

Positive: Ok tone. Good for the price.
Negative: Absolutely no wow factor. At all.

Tom's Line Engineering ARE-3 Roto Engine - Rotary Speaker Simulator

Positive: Ok digital tones
Negative: Not too great control range

Tom's Line Engineering ASF-3 S-Fuzz - Vintage Silicon Fuzz

Negative: Level way under unity

Tom's Line Engineering ASH-3 Slow Hand - Volume Sweller

Tom's Line Engineering ASR-3 Shaper - Cabinet Simulator

Positive: Good tone shaping tool.

Tom's Line Engineering ATP-3 Tube Pusher - Valve Combo Simulator

Tom's Line Engineering ATR-3 Twister - Analog Flanger

Tom's Line Engineering AVS-3 Vacuum Stack - Valve Stack Simulator

Positive: Good tone, reacts to guitar controls nicely

Tone Freak Effects Abunai

Positive: Hand crafted TS on steroids.
Negative: Still a TS.

Visual Sound Son of Hyde

Positive: Great distortion tone.
Negative: Pots break easily from sides.

Vox Tone Garage Trike Fuzz

Positive: Nice tone with decent up oct and ok down oct.
Negative: AA-batteries?

Vox Tone Garage V8 Distortion

Vox V810 Valve Tone

Positive: TS sounds in a cool box.
Negative: Still a TS sound.

Vox V830 Distortion Booster

Positive: Decent soundind pedal.
Negative: Cuts your lows.

Wasabi AC-1 Chorus-Trem

Wasabi AD-1 Forward-Reverse Delay

Positive: Feature packed.
Negative: Not the greatest delay sounds.

Wasabi AO-1 Overdrive

Positive: Nice medium gain overdriver
Negative: Boost with 5db is useless

Wasabi AS-1 Rock-A-Bye

Positive: Good delay with decent overdrive.

Way Huge WHE702 Echo-Puss - Analog Delay

Positive: Analog Delay with lots of features and Big personality.
Negative: Not that good sounding residual distortion.

Yamaha CO-10MII Compressor

Positive: Mild compression.
Negative: Nothing too special.

Yamaha DI-10MII Distortion

Positive: OK sounding distortion.

Yerasov Gamma GR-1 Grunge

Positive: Weird thing.
Negative: Not much.

Z. Vex Machine (2007, signed by D. Austin)

Positive: Weirdness of the tone

Z. Vex Vextron Distortron

Positive: Sounds good.
Negative: But not great.