GRAND MAGUS DISTORTION Organic Tube-Like Distortion with Tight Bottom-End and Natural Sag

Sounds great Good build quality and fairly cheap You get a lot for your money I use a power supply so can’t comment on battery life but definitely great pedal 👍

As soon as this was delivered I immediately plugged my guitar into it and connected it into the return of my Laney Leadtop effects loop and it sounds insanely good for the money especially in the "scooped" setting. Doing this allows the pedal to act as your preamp so you control your tone purely with the pedal. I haven't currently tried plugging it in to the front of the amp like a normal distortion pedal as I don't have a long enough cable but I don't see the point in doing so for me anyway. Sounds great and I would still think so if it cost double the price I paid. Worth noting that the video attached to this review is recorded with a phone camera hence why the sound is quite fizzy.

Raw = Tube Screamer style mid boost. Turn the gain down and the volume up. Surprisingly versatile. Fat = Flat EQ, uncoloured distortion. Scoop = The modern metal scoop sound. All the gain! Slayer!! \m/ Excellent build quality. Seriously this pedal will outlast you, and possibly your kids kids too. Its a tank. You need a screwdriver to install a battery (9v square type) but that's not a big deal.

I'm a bit of a pedal freak and have way too many including some TC Electronic pedals, so when I saw this at a price too good to refuse I had to have one and I'm truly delighted I did. Great build quality and more importantly, a great smooth, refined distortion that works equally well ahead of a solid state amp (Cube 80) and a clean-set tube amp (Engl Screamer). From the name of it I was expecting something more 'metal', but no, it's far from that - I find it quite warm and it'll do low to moderate levels of distortion which is great for me as I like to stack pedals and this one works very well on its own and after low-gain pedals. So, yes, fab pedal at a great price - no hesitation in recommending this one.

This pedal is one of 'those'. I does metal, I mean METAL, excellently. The problem for me is that it sounds too tight for a lot of normal rocky metal. I like to have that feel like my amp is about to blow a valve or transistor. This one sounds like it's already been through a DAW kind of thing. Saying that, if you want to get a really, really tight metal sound, it's superb. With judicious adjustments, and putting the right OD before it, it can do a superb 80s hair metal sound, or total doom and destruction if you want it to. The variety of tones and the available range of adjustments might fox some users.

It sounds okay but fairly cheep, which is sort of expected for a distortion pedal of the price really. The build quality seems decent, though I only just got it today, so this is first impressions. If you're getting this as a main distortion and wanting it to sound amazing, I'd shop around a little first, maybe look for a seccond hand Proco Rat or something. Though, I'm really just using this to take to band rehearsal and for using the amps there as I don't want to have to be carrying my big heavy amp with me (which I use my amp for my main distorted sound), so for that I guess it's okay.

Great quality and exactly as described

I remember when these first came out they were over £100. I got this a year on for less than £40. What I noticed immediately is how natural the distortion is. Even relatively complex chord voicings (7ths, #9s) sound smooth with all the tones coming through naturally. What you also get with TC Electronic is a superb build quality. The button is solid and the chassis robust. Recommended.