If you like Richie Kotzen’s sound then simply plug your guitar into this little gizmo and you will be very close with all the knobs set to 12. A bit of tweaking to adapt to your guitar and pickup types and you’ll be there.
Direct into a Focusrite / Logic it sounds very convincing and into my Brunetti Singleman with the Sansamp section disabled it’s phenomenal.
This unit reacts very well to your guitar volume control, backing it off by 1/4 rotation gives a great crunch tone and bring it back to full and you have a great lead tone ideal for soloing.
Each section does its job very effectively. The boost section gives a clean boost of up to 21dB, the OMG distortion section gives a really high quality tone, way better than my Andy Timmons @ pedal. There is also a fuzz option on the OMG, while fuzz is not to my personal taste, it sounds very much like a Hendrix type tone especially with single coils.
The Sansamp section is the tried and tested Tech 21 quality with some extra tweaks developed with Richie and as I said, the direct tones you can get are very convincing.
The delay section is very clever, there is a drift control on the repeats to add a chorus effect on the repeats only. This delay is not particularly stacked with features but for the price and application is all you need.
Considering Richie Kotzen uses 2 of these with a Wah pedal on stage ( and in the studio) you’re getting exactly what he uses, and it really does sound great .... I was blown away and smile a lot when using it.