It can push overdriven amps quite well, though with more gain than an average overdrive pedal, and can stack with overdrive pedals

Don't buy these to play on a clean channel or even worse on a Solid State amp.

The better the amp, the better this thing shines.

It doesn't really make a solid-state amp sound like a tube amp, it's just a very honest distortion

For the price this is one of the best distortion boxes available, it works quite well into a clean sounding amp like the little Quilter Micro Block

I use the orange micro dark as clean as I can get it, and set the volume and shape knobs accordingly

Physically, the pedal is a tank, I don't think they can be killed as I let my 16 year old use

I can use this and turn up the tone to play a tone filled, dirty Mötley Crüe song, and on the other side, I can turn it down and get a deep rumble and play some Black Sabbath and anywhere in between